Floh Peters
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[Kieran Matthew] “That said the obvious answer is yes you can do the edit (in either M100 or FCP which may handle the multicam better). “
If you want to do multicam on Media 100 get in contact with me. I can send you some useful Multicam scripts for Media 100 HD.
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[Greg] “I haven’t gotten into the HD world as of yet, but I now have a potential client looking to do a multi-cam HD shoot and edit. They wish to market their program on DVD but have everything on HD for future use. I’m wondering if I can take on the edit of this with Media 100 HDe.”
Yes 😉
[Greg] “1. Can my system edit this? What would be the down side?”
The first question probably is what kind of “HD” you are referring to. There is a wide range of HD flavors and types, starting from HDV over P2/DVCProHD and XDCam over HDCam to HDCamSR (plus probably some others that I forgot to mention). Plus, these different tape and recording formats use various different resolutions, framerates and codecs.
Generally you can handle most of the formats with Media 100 HD. But you definitely start refining the detais of the acquisition side to get more control about your post workflow.
Plus, you also should refine for yourself what you need to do in post, because this will influence your workflow. E.g. if this is “just” a editing job with maybe some titles you could work differently from e.g. a job with much compositing/AE or Boris work. Let me explain: If you do an editing job that e.g. comes from HDCam or from HDV you could use an SD as offline edit. You digitize all material you expect to need in e.g. a lower data-rate Media 100 i codec (from HDCam) or in native DV SD (when coming from HDV). You do all your editing in SD as you are used to, and you even create your SD DVD Masters from this timeline. This way you will 1. save a lot of HD space, 2. you don -
What kind of rendering do you do? Effects? Downconversion to SD? Colorcorrection? Something else?
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What program do you use to render on your MBP? The point is that the Codec currently is PPC only, so any program that needs to access it has to run under Rosetta. You usually can force applications to run under Rosetta on Intel Macs by setting the “Run under Rosetta” checkbox in the Info window (CMD-I from the Finder). Non-Universal applications like AE should run under Rosetta automatically and therefore “see” the codec.
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CTRL-ALT is always for synced (stereo) audio. Very useful 🙂
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Select your audio clips, press “CTRL” and “ALT” and drag the clips down.
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Some things you should consider:
– Software updates. A Universal version will come sooner or later. Do you want to pay for it and for new features?
– Hardware replacement: What happens if you have a hardware problem? Do you e.g. need advance replacement?
– Support questions: do you want to be able to contact support?I think I cannot give advice on the question if you need Platinum or not; you have to decide for yourself. But you should think about a worst-case scenario (e.g. your board dies), and what this would mean. If you have some sort of backup or if you are working on projects that are not that time-critical it could be an area where you can save some money. But e.g. for us it would be very problematic if one of our systems would go down for a longer timeframe. We had some hardware problems earlier and we were very happy that we had the advance replacement contracts…
Floh
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I think this is related to an Umlaut problem in Graffiti that was finally fixed in 4.0.2. So I think upgrading to 4.0.3 (or 5) should help. Try downloading the Trial version to see if it fixes your problem.
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[stats79] “Are there any plans to update the transcoder? If not, then all legacy media will eventually be unusable!”
The Mac codec does work with QuickTime7, but I doubt that there will be done much work on the iFinish/Win Transcoder.
[stats79] “Will Quicktime 6.5 work with the transcoder? “
Yes
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[Jack Shepard] “So, if you are saying that a Firewire 800 can handle DVCPRO HD… then can you input DVCPRO HD straight into Media 100 Producer through a firewire cable?”
Unfortunatley not right now. Maybe with a future update…