[Holycowseattle]

in people’s minds regarding these products.

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For us, our Media100’s are our daily A/B cutters and primary ingest and edit machine for all work. We lay out the basic edits for 30’s and we do ALL of our long-form work in Media100. 30’s are exported to After Effects for finishing after the basic audio and A/B edits are done. Elements for long form projects are manufactured (lower 3rd’s etc.) in AE and brought into the Media100. We use
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Media100 is a FAST A/B editor with great (simple) controls to do SD/HD 480i/1080i 29.97 work quickly, with great NTSC monitoring.

After Effects is “the bomb” for non-dedicated-hardware compositing work.
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FCP lets you do all of this in one timeline, but the cost is speed and efficiency. FCP is a great for anyone who can only afford one tool. It does most everything pretty well. Some things it excells (It has SUPERIOR handling of 24p content for example). In other areas it absolutely sucks–which to avoid a long series of defensive replies I will refrain from slamming any specific aspect of FCP.

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If you only have money for one SW package and don’t do a lot of regular work—FCP is the way to go for now.

As you need more efficiency, you will grow into other offerings.

[Holycowseattle]

All,

Just FYI.

AE 6.5.1 is rock solid on all of our systems. That is why we are so frustrated with 7.

We started several new projects in 7 and were unable to complete them due to crashes.
(We had to re-create in 6.5. to complete.)

-P

[Holycowseattle]

We tested earlier versions with little success.

Obviously this is a new architecture, so things may be different. Our past testing revealed the (Aurora Design) products and the Avid Mojo seemed to work best in our configurations with ProTools and ProTools LE.

[Holycowseattle]

If your problem is what I think it is….a horizontal TEARING that appears in one spot of the shot during AE ram previews…its not a REAL problem, just a workflow annoyance. This tearing appears on the INTERLACED NTSC monitor attached to your Blackmagic card, but NOT on your computer’s screen in AE.

This may sound strange, but you need to (mentally) treat/consider the AE RAM PREVIEW output on the Decklink as if it is being processed/created PROGRESSIVE—-because it is—-its only interlaced on render output. (This affects your ANALOG monitoring.)

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Suggestion: Don’t, worry about these artifacts in your AE preview, RENDER a final file and output it from your NLE. Your final file will be interlaced…and I am guessing that THEN it will look fine on an NTSC monitor.

[Holycowseattle]

I have discovered it is a fairly common problem with everyone running an HDX board. We replaced two black generators before we realized the problem was with the SW. Word is they are working on the issues in the next release or so–but i have heard nothing official on the matter.

Boris Guys? Any soution on the horizon?

[Holycowseattle]

Thanks for your persistence Noah. Just to reference your replies in context: What type of camera are you using? HVX or DVX?

For clarity on my question:

We are specifically having issues with the HVX-200 and are simply trying to ascertain if DVX users are having a similar problem.

THE PROBLEM:
When we shoot with one of our larger cameras (AJD-700, SDX-900) using the true servo lenses, we can have a shot that is sitting static, and then IMPERCEPTABLY start a zoom which over time, with good rocker control, we can ramp up in speed by feathering the controls. The key here is IMPERCEPTIBLE. From a dead stop…a widely framed shot…we can start a zoom that the user does not notice until some significant real-estate has been moved out/thorough of the frame. Subtle. Flowing.

The HVX-200 as best we have tried CANNOT do this. There is always a noticable bump at the start/end of the zoom, even using an external controller. As gently as we touch the rocker, there seem sto be an absolute minimum speed that the lens must START moving at or must finish moving from. That “minimum” speed sets itself off from a dead standstill very clearly in certain types of shots—hence the “Bump” or “Jump” at the beginning/end of the zoom. This really seems to be a limitation of the SERVO in this unit, not my nimble fingers. (My father is a brain surgeon…my inherited fingers are just as nimble as his!)

Do DVX users experience this lens limitation as well?

[Holycowseattle]

We have a varizoom for the HVX-200.

It does not allow you to “Feather” from a dead stop into motion like you can with a standard (full-size) broadcast camera lens control.

There is still a small “jump” when entering the zoom —even when we are using the varizoom. I believe this is a limitation of the camera.

Does the DVX have this same issue?

-P

[Holycowseattle]

Media 100 regularly has a “Software Update” special. For $500 you get the latest version of SW that runs on your hardware. That would be 7.5.1 for you. Give them a call. That will solve most of your issues with the media 100.

[Holycowseattle]

Thanks all for the earlier feedback.

RE: Back Focus…

I was not aware that could be set/adjusted on these little camcorders? Is that so? Or do these units sometimes ship with misaligned optics? (Requiring bench disassembly/alignment?)

Enlighten me please.

_Punit

[Holycowseattle]

We use 6.5 and 7 on the same machine. So it always finds 6.5 during the install.
I spoke to tech support at Boris and they were very helpful.

(Their feedback works similar to your experience.)
They suggest I attempt to install for a program I don’t have (Combustion, Avid, etc.) and then (just as you experience) it pops up and asks you where to install.

This is (as they explained) simply because the current version of FEC was created and released BEFORE AE7 existed.

There are no compatibility issues.

Thanks,

Punit