[Floh Peters]

What version of Media 100 are you using? I know that there were some issues with progressive images and transitions like the ones you describe, but as far as I know they all have been fixed over time.

[Floh Peters]

[john bolton] “The only Header shows Media100 at the top left of the MAC screen even when BORIS is opened from M100. “

Right, but it is still the Boris menu layout. In the Edit Menu, there should be the Project Settings

[Floh Peters]

Hmmm, can you post a Media 100 timeline/project and still file somewhere so that I can download it and have a look?

[Floh Peters]

Hmmm, sometimes there are some issues with psf timelines. Try your image in a interlaced timeline to see if this changes anything. Plus, how are you monitoring your signal? On a CRT/interlaced screen or on a progressive screen? Or only on computer displays?

[Floh Peters]

You also can try to get in touch with Boris support. Usually the guys there are pretty helpful.

[Floh Peters]

This is an QuickTime error, reading “invalid Duration”. Most likely something is wrong with your file. If you can open it in QuickTime player, you could export it from there into a different codec, like ProRes or Media 100 i or Media 100 HD, depending on your source footage. Then try to import the new file.

[Floh Peters]

If you acquire/import to the MJPEG B codec you don´t need to export to Animation again. Both MJPEG B and Animation should play more or less on any QuickTime-enabled system. If you stay in one codec you can avoid quality loss from recompression.

Regarding your keyboard: in the System Preferences under “Keyboard” there is a setting that is called “Use F1, F2,… as Standard Function keys” or somewhat similar. If you toggle the checkbox next to it you should get back your old functionality. If you need to access the functions on these keys (like change volume,…) you can hold the fn key and get the commands.

[Floh Peters]

Yeah, Codecs and Compression Types are (more or less) the same. You can either use another Codec for acquiring your material (for example the MJPEG B codec is installed on every computer that has QuickTime), or you can install the (free) trial version of Media 100 on the target computer, which automatically will install the Media 100 i codec (Mac only). Or you can do a Export to QuickTime instead of a self-contained export and use a different codec (like ProRes, H.264, Animation, Cineform,…) depending on what you want to do with the material next.

[Floh Peters]

This is related to the Codecs used for compressing video. Media 100 can use a range of codecs for editing, including the Media 100 HD codec, the ProRes family and DVCProHD from Apple and others. Not all codecs are installed on all computers. For example the Media 100 codecs are only installed with the Media 100 application. Now if you send a QuickTime that contains codecs not available on the target computer they cannot play the video part of the QuickTime.

[Floh Peters]

Not sure why, but from time to time this happens to me, too. I usually simply copy the sound from the ungraded timeline back to the graded version (CMD-A in the old timeline, CMD-Option-U to unsync all audio from Video, Option-drag to lasso all audio clips, copy, paste at the correct position in the graded timeline).