Gary Milligan
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COW Coin
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I make my adjustments using the RGB Levels in ColorFX.
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What about the S2VR HD from CalDigit? If both locations have one, the drives themselves are very easy to swap in and out.
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[Floh] “Not really sure why this is happening on your system. On our systems it works as expected (Shift F6 places a chapter mark at the CTI position). What version of Media 100 are you using? “
I’m using HDe 12.0.2 (NTSC) / OS 10.4.11 / QT 7.3
[Floh] “Good question. I hadn
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[Floh] “I am not really sure why you think that adding chapter marks to a timeline is more difficult than in Media 100 i. Can you explain this a little more in detail? From what I can see it is 100% the same way, and we do that quite often.”
In Media 100i, all one has to do is park the CTI where the chapter mark is to be, press Shift F6, and voila – the chapter mark is there. All that’s needed after that is to enter a label for the mark in the Program EventStream window. Can’t get much easier than that. When I do the same thing in HDe, the chapter mark appears at the beginning of the timeline and I either have to grab and drag it to where I want it or enter a timecode into the Marks window… and then of course give it a label. Definitely not as efficient. Also in HDe, regardless of which method I use to add marks (the Add button in the Marks window, the keyboard shortcut, or User Marks in the Tools menu) the resulting mark appears at the beginning of the timeline and has to be moved from there. But it gets worse – I really got annoyed when I had to go through this process to set a dozen or so chapter marks only to find that they all disappeared from the timeline when I closed and then re-opened the Marks window – what up with that?! They disappeared from the timeline (ALL marks, including Mark In & Mark Out), but the Marks window still had the list just as I had labeled them – unfortunately they all had the same time code (the beginning of the timeline). Oh well, at least I don’t have to label them – just enter the time code… and then make sure I never close the Marks window again (is the sarcasm coming through?)
As for the second issue –
[Floh] “There are ways to avoid that: either to use a single codec (or a family of codecs) for a project, both for acquiring and for rendering, or to do a QuickTime export from your timeline (instead of a by-ref or self-contained export), where you can choose if you want to export Video or Computer colorspace.”I must apologize for saying in my second post of this thread that I used only ProRes422 throughout this project. I remembered just a short time ago that one shot was processed in After Effects and rendered using the Animation codec. This is the first project I’ve done on my HDe system that requires a DVD with chapter marks and I just wanted to make sure my usual workflow that works flawlessly in Media 100i would work for me here. As a test, I selected at random a short range of the timeline to export to see if the chapter marks would export as well, and (wouldn’t you know it) that shot was included in the selection. Of course the different codecs would cause colourspace jumps – I knew that from reading it here on the COW a while back… but then I forgot. Apologies to Kieran and SoftHarbor… my bad. Next time you’re in town the beer’s on me 😉
So aside from the dysfunctional chapter marks, I think I’m back on track with this one and I should be able to get it to the client on time – but I still question why the chapter marks show up in the self contained and by reference exports, but not the QuickTime. I won’t lose sleep over it… just curious.
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I guess it’s just a matter of terminology but yes, I was referring to NTSC pedestal when I said “set-up levels”. Kieran used “colourspace jumps” to describe the effect I’m seeing and his solution of rendering a title track over the video is one that I’ll try. As for what chapter marks have to do with transitions and titles… nothing, but when I play the exported reference or self-contained file, that’s when the pedestal/colourspace jumps occur (when the transition or title plays). I’ve used the same codec (ProRes422) for clips and rendering . I’m a bit confused as to why Media 100 claims HDe can play different codecs in the timeline – which it can – but in the end they all have to be the same if one wants to export by reference or self-contained without the colourspace jumps. It used to be so easy with my old xs sytem – much easier to set chapter marks in the timeline which would then export out and be read by BitVice (my compressor of choice). Anyone else tried to put chapter marks into their timelines since upgrading from Media 100i?… it’s not as easy as it used to be… hopefully someone from Media 100 is reading this (hello David?)
Anyway, thanks for the helpful replies… it’s appreciated. I know I’ll get what I’m after one way or another but it’s frustrating when upgrades seem to go backwards.
Gary
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Are we required to get a new system key for this update (from v12)?
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I can’t remember all the details of my set-up at the time but before upgrading to HDe I used to have a problem with importing files from After Effects rendered with the Media 100 codec – it was a known bug. The work-around was to render using the Animation codec and then import that file into Media 100. Of course it wasn’t a quick import and the file had to be transcoded, but it worked. Give it a try.
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Try rendering out of After Effects using a different codec (Animation) – or, if you have QuickTime Pro, load your rendered file into that and export using Animation, then import that into Media 100.
Good luck.
Gary
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“So I finally broke down and redigitized the media and it still will not appear in my timeline.”
When you redigitized, did you redigitize the bins or the timeline?
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Yes, I’m aware that I could have re-created the titles using Graffiti, but I have been considering buying RED for some time now and this was the push that helped me make that decision.