Floh Peters
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In Suite 1.5 and up you can use the “Collect Media from Program/Bin/Project” command to collect all used files in a single folder. This way you can easily make sure that you have all media needed for a project in a central place.
In earlier versions this has to be done manually, I guess. Personally we try to locate all media files that are used regularly in a separate folder so that we can delete the “Project media” folder of a project when it is done.
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[Eric Pelletier] “Today I can reconfirm this.”
Good to know that you are back up and running (or exporting).
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[Eric Pelletier] “What’s your Media 100 version?”
Suite 1.7 on OSX 10.5.8
[Eric Pelletier] “My issue concerns mainly (only?) the Export File (from a Bin, Program or even from Edit Suite).”
This could be related to QuickTime 7.6.9, or to an incompatible (old) QuickTime component. Go to your Library->QuickTime folder and have a look inside. Anything unusually there? You could move all the files to the Desktop, and then try to export again. If your system does not crash, then move back the files in small groups and look where Media 100 starts to crash. Most likely there is some pretty old component hanging around in your Qucktime folder causing this.
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Hi Dave,
great news. And I especially like the “free update for 1.6 users” part. Thanks a lot for the great work you guys are doing there.
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[Paul Crowe] “Anyway I’ve got a 720p 50 timeline up I’m trying to get a signal out of M100 Suite 1.5.1 via AJA Lhe (R/G/B Component on the Kona control panel) to the bravia which seems to have the right inputs but I can get a picture.”
The Aja control panel does not do anything when you are in Media 100. What do you have selected as output in the Video Output preference section? Maybe you should start with SD and work your way up from there to see what actually works and what not. Or you could create a 1080i 25 timeline with some color clips to see if the display accepts 1080i component signals.
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Hi Sue,
locate the exported QuickTime in the Finder. Open it in QuickTime Player (Pro). Under Movie Properties (Command-J) select the Video Track, and set the “Scaled Size” (under the Visual Properties tab) to 1024*576 for PAL or to 864*486 (if my math is correct) for NTSC. Save the file and open the file in iDVD again.
One additional note if you are working in NTSC: I am not sure if iDVD does the 486->480 (for MPEG2) conversion correctly. If you are seeing interlacing artifacts, you could export a DV Stream from Media 100 instead a by-reference or self contained movie. This should be in 720*480 already, which is perfect for DVDs. Then set the size to 854*480 in QuickTime Player and continue to iDVD. -
There is no Windows version of the Media 100 codec anymore. There was a version (the iFinish transcoder), but some Windows Quicktime update broke the functionality, and since these days most people use different codecs like ProRes anyway it never got re-engineered to work on current Windows QuickTime versions.
If you have a Mac somewhere you can download the free codec from media100.com. If not, maybe you can post the files somewhere (e.g. on an FTP server) where I can download and convert them for you. -
Hi Sue,
what version of iDVD are you using? I think I remember that some iDVD versions only supported 4:3 media. Is there a 16:9 setting in your iDVD version?
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“You could try importing to a different codec, or maybe someone else has an idea for the color/contrast problem.”
Right now there is not much you can do about it, since this is an RGB/YUV or 16-235 vs. 0-255 colorspace issue. Media 100 expects clios for slow-import to be in 16-235 colorspace, but the incoming file is in 0-255. But I have the feeling that there could be an option for this issue in the next version of Media100, since it is a pretty common problem.
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Another thing you could try would be to split the timeline into 2, and then to do a conform on the first and the second part individually. This way you probably can narrow down which clip causes your problems.