Floh Peters
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[Wickham Strub] “QT 7.6 and beyond “fixed” the problem completely for users of Media 100 v10 and up but left Media 100 i v8.2.3a users with pink (some say purple) keyframes on clips in bins.”
Right.
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[bruce botts] “QT 7.6.4 Media 100 i 8.2.3”
That is a dangerous combination. You could try to convert the WMV to QuickTime first (e.g. with Flip4Mac), and then import the resulting QuickTime.
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[Nick Griffin] “Wouldn’t a level 5 RAID provide that measure of back-up safety?”
Short answer: No.
Slightly longer answer: NO!!! Not at all!!!
Even longer answer: RAID 5 is not backup at all! Raid 5 is something that protects you from drive failures, in case one of your drives fails. But you have to deal with a situation where a crash of your application, a power failure or even a hit on the Cancel button can delete everything you have acquired. It could happen that you acquire 45 minutes in one piece and when stopping the acquire your system fails to write the lead out. This would mean that the whole 45 minutes would be gone. So you should make sure to have a way to e.g. reacquire (like a tapedeck running in sync to your system).
What we did is that we routed the incoming SDI and TC through a DigiBeta deck, and we acquired “through” the deck, recording to the deck and to Media 100 with the RS422 on the deck set to local. This way we got the TC in Media 100 via RS422, but the system was not able to stop the deck. -
Basically your HD space is the limit. We recorded 45-minute shows for several years in Media 100 for editing directly after the finish of the studio recording. But of course you should have a backup…
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[Jim Wiseman] ” LHi Control panel displaying Digital out or HDMI out changes to 1080i 29.97 both Primary and secondary when playing back w FCP. “
I guess that is the reason. The Kona hardware can convert 23.98 material to 29.97, which is obviously what FCP is doing right now. This function is currently not supported in Media 100, as far as I know.
One of the most obvious reasons would be to monitor 23.98 material on a regular 29.97/NTSC display, using the Kona 3, LHe and LHi downconverters, but it looks like the cross-conversion of the Kona3 and LHi also should output 23.98 to 29.97 1080i, which is really good for being able to monitor this footage.
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Question is what this file really is. Most likely a Quicktime file in the Media100i codec. You could download the codec from the support section of the Media100 website and try to open it in Quicktime player. If this works you should be able to use it inside FCP, but most likely you need to apply a Levels filter to it to increase the contrast, since Media100 works in a different (more professional) colorspace than FCP.
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Yes, Psf is progressive media over an interlaced connection.
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Then I guess I cannot really help without a LHi. Maybe Wick and his guys can look into the issue.
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What settings do you use for playback in FCP? I personally don’t have a LHi board, but if FCP can play it out without conversion Media100 should also.
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[Greg Snyder] “Can you control fast import and slow import?”
If you have an object that fast-imports (e.g. a video clip Media 100 sees as a valid realtime clip), you can force to slow-impor this clip by using the “import media into Media standard and Codec” checkbox in the import dialog. If Media 100 does not recognize the clip as a realtime clip (e.g. with “bad” FCP clips) it does not fast-import.
One way you could try to trick Media 100 is by placing the clips in a timeline in FCP, and then exporting the timeline as XML. Import into Media 100 and look if the clips do fast-import then.