Floh Peters
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[Gary Stone] “Now that I know that it’s working, I should uninstall it an reinstall M-100, right?”
Hmmm, if you open the Aja control panel and go to the “Info” tab (I think it is labeled info, the one at the very right side), is there something suspicious in the list? No idea what could be there, but maybe there is some sort of info that could help you figure out what´s wrong there.
If not, you need to uninstall the Aja software and reinstall Media 100 to work with Media 100. Since you are still on 10.4.11 it is not possible to upgrade to one of the later versions of Media 100 to see if this would fix your problems.My next steps would be: Uninstall the Aja driver, and reinstall your Media 100 V12.1.3. Most likely this will not change anything in your situation.
Then, create a new OS X user in the Users System Pref, switch to this user and try to launch Media 100 there. Maybe there is a conflict with some sort of pref that is stuck in your user space. Maybe reinstall Media 100 for this user also (although this should not really change anything).
After that you would have the options either to reinstall OSX 10.4.x, and update it to 10.4.11 (avoiding the QuickTime 7.5.5/7.6 updates!!!) or to move to OSX 10.5.6. I highly would recommend installing to a fresh drive as a test to (1) keep your old OS and all applications in place to go back in case something goes wrong and (2) to be able to have a completely fresh system where you could install V13.0.2 and the latest Aja Kona drivers (you need both) to see if this setup works. If it works you could think about doing a “archive and install” with a transfer of your settings on your regular startup drive. -
Since you are using an old version of Media 100, the Aja drivers from the website are not compatible to your Media 100 software. I think with Version 12.7 Media 100 does use the Aja Kona drivers. Before that it used other drivers, that were included with the Media 100 installer. So for working in Media 100 you don´t need drivers from the Aja page.
BUT, since you want to test your Kona board, you should download the Aja Kona drivers for your board and OS. I am not sure which OS and which board you are running, but there are Kona drivers for several combinations. With the Kona drivers you will not be able to use Media 100 (unless you deinstall the drivers and reinstall Media 100), but you will be able to test your Kona card and get info about it in the Aja control Panel.
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[Gary Stone] “I’ve been trying to research the AJA control panel”
As I said, you need to install the Aja Kona drivers from aja.com to get the Aja Control Panel. You need to uninstall them and to reinstall Media 100 before you can run V12.1 again. With the later Media 100 software versions you can use the Aja Kona drivers with Media 100.
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[Alec Lawrie] “I need to export some programmes as AVI files. Although the films are 16×9, they export as 4×3 (as do self-contained and by reference movies. I also need to reduce the size to 384×216. Any suggestions?”
Actually they export in their native pixel dimensions, which is 720*576 or 720*486, which is absolutely correct. If you want to convert them to AVI files, you should use a tool like Cleaner, Compressor, Episode or whatever to convert to AVI and to scale to the needed size. For viewing in QuickTime player you simply can scale the file to a 16:9 aspect by setting the video scaled size to 1024*576 (PAL) or 864*486 (NTSC) in the Video Properties window of the QuickTime player.
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It cannot really hurt to delete the PAL and NTSC config files, since they are recreated on application start automagically. And since you already have a nonworking system things can only improve.
One thing I am wondering, though, if your bad graphics card has taken down your Aja card. Maybe there was some sort of power problem on the PCI bus, damaging the GPU as well as the Aja card. One thing you could try is to install the Aja Kona drivers for your board and OS version, since they install an app called Aja Control Panel which shows some additional informations about your card. You do need to uninstall this and reinstall Media 100 before running Media 100 again, but it could give you some hints if your Aja card is good or not. Plus, with this installed you should be able to see colorbars after startup, so you get an idea about if the card really works. -
Gary,
did you also delete the NTSC and PAL default Configurationds and the “current Configuration” file? And does your Aja card show up in the system profiler? Did you upgrade the OS for the new graphics card?
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Not sure. But you should try to trash your Media 100 prefs in YourHomeFolder->Library->Preferences
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[Gregg Michaels] “Is this possible, or is this option not supported by Media100 yet? “
Unfortunately this is currently not supported.
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Only for the Media 100 based codecs. The Apple codecs (Uncompressed, DV, ProRes) use the Full RGB range
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[Doug Calhoun] “I’m installing and HDe system now. If you have a link or a driver #, I’d much appreciate it. “
Just FYI: The RS422 port on the Kona card/Breakout Box does not require an additional driver. This is included in the Kona installer. You only need an extra driver if you are using one of the older Keyspan RS422 adaptors.