Floh Peters
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Having not used the Matrox hardware myself, I think that the output/conversion settings are set in the Matrox control panel and not within thte Media 100 app. Did you change anything within the Matrox control panel that could affect this? Is there some cross-conversion or down-conversion setup?
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You also could upgrade your G5 to OSX10.5 (via a paid upgrade), and then update to 10.5.8 for free. Maybe you should look e.g. on eBay for a 10.5 update disc…
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[Ben Masterson] “It also takes much more time to conform the file than importing.”
Then at least it is good that the conform gives a better quality. Would be more problematic if the conform took longer and the result would not be better.
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It looks like they use different conversion algorithms. You could select all your HD files in your bin, and then right-click one of them and use “Conform Selected Clips…” instead of dragging them all to a timeline and back. Should give you the same result, only quicker.
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Hmmm, not sure that I can follow you here. Can you please describe what you are seeing and what you are expecting, or can you maybe upload an example to show what you are talking about? You can upload images and video with your post with the buttons over this text field.
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Hey Wick,
thanks a lot for this release. The speed improvement is really great!!! Much smoother workflow now, especially with long timelines and multiclips.
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[Thomas Hughes] “Thanks Wick. Our suites use the Kona 3 cards and junction boxes. Are those a good fit for M100 Suite? “
Perfect 🙂
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No need to switch settings or stuff. Media100 stores its settings within its preferences; so even if you have to change e.g. something in the Aja settings for FCP it won´t affect Media 100s Aja settings. So you definitely can switch between FCP and Media 100 on the same computer easily.
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[jeremy Rowell] “If I have to replace a whole edit station, I’m pretty sure they will make me switch over to FCP to match the group. 8>( “
Then the Aja route makes even more sense, since you can run FCP and Media 100 on the same Aja (or BlackMagic) boards from the same startup drive. Simply open your editing program of choice. These days it does not really make sense to force an editor to work in an app he does not like for this job.
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Jeremy,
the Aja LH and Kona2 boards also do work with Media 100 and are PCI-X based; but I am not really sure if it is a good idea to invest into PCI-X hardware these days. Apple moved to PCI Express some time ago (with the latest versions of the G5 systems, even before moving to Intel). And Snow Leopard/OSX 10.6 only works on Intel systems. So basically there are no PCI-X solutions out there that are supported by Apples latest OS.
And while Media 100 currently supports both Leopard and Snow Leopard, I think there will be a time when the newest release of Media 100 only runs on Snow Leopard. Don´t get me wrong, right now I think there is no sign that this will happen anytime soon, but since Snow Leopard has some interesting technologies e.g. to speed up rendering and use CPUs and GPUs more efficient via Grand Central Dispatch, I guess that the Media 100 engineers do have a look at these technologies for future releases.
So I guess your best option would be to look out for a used Kona 2, Kona LH or HDx card as a backup. But sooner or later you probably have to move to Intel, so I would try to avoid spending too much money on a hardware technology that was phased out by Apple more than 4 years ago.