Floh Peters
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[Michael Slowe] “Floh, that’s odd, I have version 2.1 and was looking for the ‘conform’ window and couldn’t find it! Does that mean that we can’t choose whether to crop top or sides (or a combination of both as before), we just have to let Media 100 do the re size?”
If you have 2.0 and up, by default you don´t need to use the “conform” if you want to mix different resolutions/framesizes in your timeline. It is done via the “Motion Editor”, which by default should downscale/upscale with the correct aspect ratio, and which can be accessed via the Edit Suite to tweak the settings.
You still can conform timelines or clips from HD to SD via the “Conform” window (under the “Media” menu) if you want to.
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Usually this happens if you lengthen a slomo clip in a timeline. You have to make sure that you include the area you need before either hitting apply after changing the speed in the edit suite or before dragging the clip from the Edit Suite to the timeline.
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[Andrew Mehta] “To get the 16:9 looking good in 4:3, you either want to letterbox it with black borders top and bottom, or crop the sides off.
I’d create a composition clip, go into Boris Red, drop the footage in there. Get it the right aspect again, and move it to a position that you’re happy with (i.e. where the sides being cropped aren’t anything important) and then render it back to the M100 timeline.
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Depending on which version of Media 100 suite you are using, there are several ways of doing what you want to do. In the newer versions (V2 and up) you can drop your HD clips into your SD timeline, and they should resize automatically in realtime for editing. In Pre V2-Releases you should see a “Conform” dialog showing up, where you can adjust to how the footage is downconverter. You either probably would want to “Letterbox” (giving you black bars at the top and bottom), or to “crop”, cutting off the left and right area of the image.
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[Marcus Warren] “Of course, there’s always the chance that Media 100 is shrouded in secrecy because Boris is developing a PC version, along with a massive marketing onslaught…I’d prefer for M100 to stay Mac-only, but who knows what’s going on these days.”
I would guess they don´t. There was iFinish, which was a Win version of Media 100 a couple of years back. But these days everybody is struggling to build a decent editing system; Avid is having terrible numbers (from a business perspective, losing big money each quarter), and except the really big companies like Adobe, Apple, Sony (maybe GrassValley) nobody is working on “broadcast”-style editing systems these days. I even had problems describing FCP7 (let alone FCP-X) as suitable for broadcast or feature production, but of course a lot of editors and projects have been done on it…
I know that work is done on a new release of Media 100; but I think it does help to get in touch with Boris directly. Send him a mail with features you would like to see in Media 100. His email address is pretty widely spread, for example on this page in the upper right area under the email address.
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The “Launch” Command should show the file in your Application->Media 100 Folder->Quick Launch Items folder, which should be installed with the installer. Inside are several PDF files. Not sure why it is not filled on your system.
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The shortcut list I created was included in some recent versions of Media 100 Suite; unfortunately it is not included in the current installer, but will be in the next hopefully again.
Other helpful documents can be found under the Media 100 Suite->Launch menu command inside your Media 100 application. It seems like this is not known to everybody.
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[Jaeson Koszarsky] “he Media100 release notes should mention something about it.”
Actually all qualified and recommended driver versions are mentioned in the release notes…
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You can download it here.
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[Timothy Gassen] “I’ve uploaded a zipped folder with some small test Media 100 QT files and a READ ME file here: “
Hi Tim,
I´ve uploaded 2 versions of the export here.
Both clips are exported as ProRes, Clip one with “full range RGB” (0-255), and Clip 2 with “Studio Range” (16-235).
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Clip 1 (the “Full Range” export) looks different from your clip in QuickTime Player, AfterEffects and probably most applications that work with QuickTime files. But if you re-import it into Media 100 Suite it will import instantly (without conversion), and on the Media 100 video output it will look identical to your clip, since the ProRes codec uses 0-255 RGB Range, while the Media 100 codec uses 16-235.
Clip 2 (the “Studio Range” export) does look a little bit different from your export in QuickTime player, but it looks 100% identical in AE, since QuickTime player by default does not adjust for Color profiles. AfterEffects sees that my exported file contains a video profile, and displays it corrected. Now there is the question if it is correct to handle files with 16-235 colorspace inside AE or with 0-255, but that depends on your workflow.
Both clips could be burnt to a DVD with the right encoder and match the file you sent me. When using Apple Compressor I would need to use the Clip 1 to get it to DVD, and with e.g. BitVice or other applications that do support both RGB-spaces I could use both files.
Regarding your question about the Media 100 timeline, it looks like Media 100 suite cannot read the old iFinish timelines, unfortunately.
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You can email me: floh at mac dot com