Floh Peters
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[Matt Jones] “Any ideas on automating re-rendering of already rendered graphics? “
Like graphics on a video composition track (V1 and up)? Yes, you could select them all, then do a “Unrender Selected Clips” from the Media Menu, and then a “Render all”. If they don´t render because they are realtime graphics, do a “Render…” command (from the Media Menu), and select Force Render All.
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It definitely sounds as if you are rendering into a different codec (e.g. Apple ProRes or Uncompressed 8 bit), which would explain your problems. If you are working with by ref or self contained clips you need to make sure that all of your material is in the same codec (in Media 100 i only one codec was supported, so you never could get into this problem).
If you are not sure if all your material is in the same codec, do a QuickTime export into a codec of your choice, and (for most purposes, e.g. if you want to use Compressor, iDVD or similar) set the color range to 0-255
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[David Issko] “Floh, How were you able to conclude that the field dominance should be off?
“The trick here is that if you move down an image one line, you actually swap the fields. First field is on line 1,3,5,…, second field is on line 2,4,6,… If you set the incoming image to interlaced footage, AE creates the double amount of full frames, interpolating the missing lines for each field, which is not what you want in this case. You do want the original lines of the whole image to be moved down a line, creating a field swap, without interpolating anything.
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Are you sure that you only updated your QuickTime version, and not also e.g. your MacOSX version? I am not sure what OS version is supported by V12.5. If you have a 12.5 installer, I would suggest reinstalling V12.5 on your system. Also make sure that the downgrade to QuickTime 7.5 did actually work.
Btw. with Media 100 12.7 QuickTime does break the Media 100 codec, but it does not actually prevent the application from starting up. Most likely you have a different problem which happened at the same time than your QuickTime update. -
[Wickham Strub] “Without knowing any of the details, one quick trick that comes to mind is putting the file into an AE comp and moving it up or down one line. As long as you render out to the same codec and settings, this should have the effect of swapping the field order.”
This does work and is a quick and easy way, as long as you interpret the incoming file in AE as progressive, and if you render out progressive again. Otherwise you will lose resolution. But if you do that with progressive settings it will work fine.
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[Bobby Mosaedi] “Nobody even supports the multi-track touchpad other than apple, and thats been out for a while now.”
Adobe CS4 does support it. But I agree, this is not something that should be high on Media 100s to-do list.
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[Terri Brantz] “There was one tutorial on adding back-to-back graphics, but that’s all I found. If there’s another way to find them, I’d appreciate a steering in the right direction. “
Look into my first post on your question, there is a link to the Media 100 V8 tutorial (which is pretty good as far as I can remember).
[Terri Brantz] “Some of my basic frustrations have been: a variety of levels of M100 on 4 different computers, resulting in different commands on different machines for the same function;”
Hmmm, I think the Media 100 shortcuts have only changed slightly over the years. Do you have an example of a command that changes between the versions?
[Terri Brantz] “importing audio separately and trying to turn down the audio tracks on a variety of clips– there must be a way to turn down an entire track? and I’m somehow missing where to create a ‘scene’ of my work on the timeline, so that I have an error-free copy in the bin to revert to if my original gets hopelessly messed up. “
Actually, in the audio mixer window you have 2 modes, a “track” mode and a “clip” mode. If you adjust a fader in the “track” mode you adjust the whole track, if you are in Clip mode you (obviously) adjust only a single clip.
Regarding your timelines: this works a little bit different than e.g. an Avid; much more like a “regular” Mac program. You save your timelines (programs) individually, separated from your project file (try think e.g. like in Photoshop). If you save your timeline under a new name, e.g. YourTimelineName V2, you will still have your “old” timeline named YourTimelineName on your drive (and in your project), and you can return to the old version immediately, just as you would do e.g. with a .PSD file in Photoshop.[Terri Brantz] “They’ve also struggled with the audio imports via firewire– some cameras import in 48,000 Hz, some in 32,000 Hz, and the program jumps back and forth between them, regardless of what they’ve set up in the Preferences and Hardware menu. They can’t ever record their first 20 seconds or so of video, since they have to keep clicking “OK” on the audio window when the program jumps back and forth. A work-around is to record 20 seconds or more of black before they begin, of course, but there must be a solution other than that. “
You ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO MAKE SURE that you set all your DV cameras to record at 48kHz. There is nothing you can do in Media 100 about that; if somebody did record at 32kHz you cannot change that later on; the transfer via FireWire is a data transfer and does not actually change the incoming data, so you cannot acquire 32kHz material in 48kHz via FireWire (you could use the analog audio inputs to do that). But this problem is a very basic video problem and not specific to Media 100!!!
One thing you should be aware of is that you are working with a very old hardware/software combo. There are many improvements in the newer versions that would make your life easier.
[Terri Brantz] “I’m also struggling with trying to import different online audio clips, which require a higher version of QuickTime than Media 100 allows. What do you all do in this case?”
What kind of audio clips are these? .mp3 and .aiff files should be supported even with your V7.5 systems. .aac files are probably not supported. You could e.g. use a laptop to convert the files, or you could play them back e.g. from an iPod and record into the Media 100 system via an analog input (e.g. with an RCA to minijack cable).If you can be a little bit more specific with your questions we definitely can give you even better advice. And you really should have a look at the mentioned tutorial to get up to speed with the basic concept of Media 100.
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[joyce woodworth] “I have installed the 8.2.3a and I checked the Hardware… it is o.k. Can I call you? Thank you for your help…. I am at a total loss here. JW”
You should get in touch with Media 100 techsupport.
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[joyce woodworth] “This current project is the biggest I have ever worked on and I did digitize 3.4gb, 3.1 gb, 2.9gb and down from there until I have 47gb left… I did read in the manual after I digitized these larger amounts and it says “to digitize programs greater than 2GB format your disk drives as HFS Plus (Mac OSExtended)”
If you are able to digitize more than 2GB your drive is HFS+ formatted. Your problems are not related to your HD space; there is something else not right with your system.
If you are running V8.2, go to http://www.media100.com and download V8.2.3a from the support section. Reinstall this.
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And make sure you don´t have any other application running, and no Media 100 Quicktime selected in the Finder.