Floh Peters
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Hi Gerry,
it is very likely that the versions of the codecs you downloaded from Apple does actually not work on Leopard. I did not realize you are on Leopard; they work on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.x) and Lion.
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Hmmm, which codec? Are your media drives full or too slow?
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Do you use clips in the Media 100 i codec? They are not supported right now under 10.6.8, due to a problem Apple caused with the MJPEG-B codec, which is the base for the Media 100 i codec.
How did you revert to 10.6.7? Fresh installation of the OS? I am not sure if the installation with “archive” and reuse of the old settings gets rid of the problem…
Or have you tried to acquire or render clips into the Media 100 i codec under 10.6.8? Then you probably have some “bad” video files somewhere on the drive. You could create a new project and open up some older files to see if they work. -
[Jaeson Koszarsky] “I set SDI out to composite to feed a monitor but am getting no signal.”
The Kona breakout boxes work the following way: either you get a Component signal on the analog outputs, or you get a Composite + SVideo output on the analog connections. This means if you set the analog out to Composite & SVideo, you need to hook up your composite monitor to the “Y” output of the breakout box, not to SDI.
Regarding the component input, this should work as well. Are you sure you´ve connected the multi pin cable and the digital video connections between the BOB and the LHi card correctly? Does the LHi breakout box show up in the “About Media 100” info window? -
Hi Gerry,
probably the clips are in XDCam EX codec, and you don´t have this codec installed. You can get it for free from Apple. I´ve written an explanation how to download and install the latest Apple codecs without FCP here.
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Hmmm, the clips import but only show up green? Sounds like a missing codec issue. Can you post one of the source clips somewhere for me to have a look?
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Difficult to see in this image due to the compression. Could you post a timeline file somewhere showing the problem?
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As far as I can tell markers are not supported in the XML exchange. One thing you could do to ease the transition is to export the markers from FCP as a text file; there is something under the File->export menu, I think it is called Marker List. This is simply a text document which could be used for reference purposes. Or you could try to create an AppleScript to read this marker document and to place markers in Media 100 based on it.
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[Rich Johnson] ” Not an issue so far. But being so busy I don’t want to even risk it.”
Hmmm, okay. I hope it stays that way. Let us know if it shows up again.
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[noah wight] “so using idvd or toast, it still burns the clip in as 720×486 and it looks squeezed on playback and super interlaced to the extent that transitions create weird horizontal lines. any idea why?”
Yes, of course. You NTSC guys have to make everything more difficult than it has to be 😉
While SD broadcast formats (the 601 formats) are 720*486 both in 16:9 as well as 4:3, the DV-based formats (including MPEG2 for DVD) are 720*480, so they have 6 lines less than the 601 signal. And if you convert for DVD, the cheap solutions like Toast and iDVD simply scale down the 486 lines to 480 lines without knowing something about fields and stuff, so the results usually look horrible.A good way to go (if you want to continue to use iDVD or Toast) is to export from Media 100 Suite as a DV-Stream (which will automatically convert to 480 lines on export). Make sure you use the “lower field first” setting, and the “Computer 0-255” color range on export. Plus, you also can set the image to display as 16:9 automatically in the export settings. The resulting files should work with Toast and iDVD nicely.