Floh Peters
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[mhh] “Will one of the latest macs and the M100 SW give me similar or better performance than what I have now? “
It will give you MUCH better realtime performance. In Media 100 i your realtime capabilities are limited to ColorFX, Audio Effects, Transitions and static graphic overlays, and all those are done on the P6000 board. In Media 100 i and HD all this is moved to the CPU, and much more can be done this way. Additionally to the Media 100 i realtime effects you also get realtime overlays with or without alpha channel on the V1-V99 tracks (realtime video, e.g. with a chroma keyer and opacity keyframes); additional realtime ColorFX (RGB Curves and Levels), realtime mixing of codecs (Media 100 i 720 and 640, DV, Animation, Media 100 HD all in realtime in the same timeline) and some more. Plus, the rendering of non-realtime FX like Boris transitions are not using the hardware codec anymore. In Media 100 i all video had to go through the hardware codec, which became a big bottleneck for render performance. Now if you render something in e.g. BorisRed in the Media 100 sw or HD timeline the rendering will be MUCH quicker.
If you have a current CPU (DualG4 or G5) you should download the sw Trial version (at the bottom of the page) and try it out for yourself. The performance difference is dramatic.
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[Lawrence Marshall] “My FastFX dissolves play just fine in real time, but when rendered the dissolve “clips” at the end… instead of a complete ramp through the dissolve, it gets about 95% through and then just clips hard into the incoming scene. I’ve tested this over and over… looks like 2-3 frames are clipped off the tail end of the dissolve (the outgoing scene dissolving down into the incoming scene). *All* the time.”
This bug has been fixed in the 10.1.3 update.
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[Warren] “Could you not simply export an EDL, import the EDL into Media 100i and relink the media files?”
No, you cannot relink media based on an EDL. You would need to redigitize.
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Most likely the “current configuration”. You can move it to the desktop to try it (make sure that Media 100 is closed while moving the file). Also, try repairing permissions on your startup drive (with Apple DiskUtility).
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I think you have either a damaged media file or a bad pref file. Create a new project, open the timeline and cancel the relink. If the timeline opens up okay you probably have a bad media file. Go to the media file folder of your project and look if something has a strange icon. If yes, delete it and relink.
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[Greg] “Do you mean to say that I can buy something like a Ultra16 500GB Hard Drive
7200RPM, Internal, SATA/300 and I can edit with this? Don’t I need to have something with 10,000RPM speed? “Media100i does 2 streams max at the same time, and usually only one at a time that is not even lossless but compressed, plus some audio tracks. Modern drives will handle these data rates easily. Or to be on the extremely safe side buy 2 400GB (or 250GB) drives and stripe them as RAID0 with Apple DiskUtility.
[Greg] “Are you suggesting I get rid of my SCSI drives and just go with these drives?”
Yes. Most of our problems we ever had were related to SCSI cabling and termination problems. After switching to FibreChannel our life became much easier. And SATA will be the same, it is a much more modern architecture.
[Greg] “Also, since I can’t go back and forth between M100i and SW, would I need to finish my project on SW?”
Probably this would make sense. And once you got in touch with the additional features of sw and the improved speed you want to stay there anyway 😉 Only the lack of I/O probably will be problematic.
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[Greg] “I have m100i 8.1 on a G4 1.42 Mhz I have two 18GB Glyph Scsi drives 10,000RPM and One 72GB Rorke Data drive. I really need more Scsi drive space, but I’m not sure what I should look for and buy. I edit primarily from and to Beta SP. If I could find something on Ebay that would be great. Any suggestions?”
As a cheap solution I would think about investing into SATA storage, which is quick and cheap. You will need a SATA board like the Tempo-X ($199) and some internal or external SATA drives (400GB internal for $ 279 without searching much at CompUSA).
[Greg] “Also, I just bought a Powerbook 17″ 1.67 Ghz. I’m considering M100 SW. I’ve been told on this board that I can copy from my Mac G4 a project to a firewire drive then edit that project on my Powerbook, and import it back to my Mac G4. Will this work?”
You can open bins, timelines, projects and media files from Media 100 i in Media 100 sw. But once opened in sw you cannot open the bins, timelines and projects in Media 100 i anymore, since the files have been saved from a newer version. So you cannot go back and forth between sw and i immediately. But if you have finished your work on sw you can export a self-contained file from sw (which will stay natively in the Media 100 i codec and will export very fast) that you can reimport into Media 100 i and master to tape from there.
You should download a full functional trial version of sw at borisfx.com and see if it works for you. -
[Tugs M. MacCow] “None of these are described in the manual as having anything to do with RS-422, but I wonder if the Remote In might possibly, given that it’s a 9-pin. Any ideas?”
As usual I have many ideas 😉
Yes, the Remote in is what you want to use. This is RS422/deck control, and it has a Remote button on the front. -
[Tugs M. MacCow] “I also gather that you can now get USB to RS-232 cables. Wouldn’t that be a better option, doing away with the Keyspan unit entirely?”
What do you want to control? Professional decks like the DVW-A500 do have a RS422 connection for deck control. So wor what would you want to use RS232? There are some prosumer decks that have RS232 (like some UVW-decks (BetaSP)), but most video gear uses RS422.
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Hey Marc,
I think Boris bought Media 100 for a reason, and I think he wants to continue the product. And since Apple uses PCIe in their newest systems I believe that Media 100/Boris will work on something in this area, too. I don