[Jaeson Koszarsky]

Media100 has a 60-day free trial period.

You can import/export with H.264 codec.

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

Is AJA LHi driver 12.2.1 compatible with Media100 2.1.6? The FAQ mentions 12.2.

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

Thanks. I must have scrolled right by that in the FAQ and read everything else :^)

BTW, I did purchase another copy of Media100 for a 3rd Mac Pro that I have at home.

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

We are currently running two 2.1.5 licenses on our Mac Pros. Is the upgrade to 2.1.6 $99 or can I just DL the trial version to do the update?

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

“Media100 for users” might attract some new users.

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

I found this video on youtube that shows a DraCo in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nLaEC0dpqU

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[Jaeson Koszarsky]

We started out with Media100 & a Power Mac 9500 system. I’ve been looking through some old boxes of stuff but haven’t come across anything earlier than v7 yet. If I find something older, I’ll let you know.

Did you have OS9 installed before, or are you upgrading from OS8.x? A leap could introduce problems if your Media100 v4 requires updates to work correctly with OS9.

Do you have any install guides for Media100 v4 that mention supported OS versions?

If v4 is ok with OS9, a reinstall of v4 should get you a usable edit system BUT you won’t be able to access projects that were made with v4.x, until you (or someone else) finds necessary v4 updates.

Looks like someone is selling a copy of Media100 v5 on ebay. Newer versions will open projects created with older versions. Just make sure it’s compatible with your hardware & OS setup.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Media100qx-Install-User-guide-Mac-For-use-with-Vincent-PCI-Card-Premiere-/131290032037

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

Movieshop was pretty cutting edge. Very high quality, better than the Toaster/Flyer, realtime playback but layered FX required rendering first. Up to 99 A/V layers on your timeline. You could nest timelines within other timelines as a single a/v track. It has a multi-cam feature that supports up to 6 clips. You can use things like Digital Juice if you exported what you want as a JPG stream (plus a separate JPG alpha channel stream), then import them into Movieshop. You could also import IFF24 & WAV (must be stereo though).

Movieshop has two basic timeline modes. A simple A/B + FX layout, and the multi-layered layout (RPN mode). RPN is Reverse Polish Notation. This is how you need to set up your clips & fx on the timeline. Once you get the hang of it, you are ok. For complex timelines, the nesting feature is handy.

You have a single bin but you can group clips together into sub-bins, like sub-folders.

You can have plug-ins like Wildfire. Monument Titler was your companion CG package, like RED is to Media100. Not so fancy today but decent enough. One quark with Monument though was that it referenced your time in PAL, whether your Movieshop project was PAL or NTSC. The Toaster/Flyer NLE was NTSC only.

With Michael Lindner’s Virtual Compose (later Virtual Engine), you could do motion tracking.

The firewire add-on card is the same SONY DVBK-1/A board used with the Media100 P6000 boards. If your DraCo does have firewire, you could pick up a used Media100 with it pretty cheap and harvest the DVBK. They only implemented a/v support for firewire in Movieshop, no machine control. You could control RS232 devices with an add-on board & DraCo jog/shuttle controller.

16bit 48khz Audio I/O is only via stereo RCA unbalanced input. A 3rd party vendor, Aliendesign, made a sound card called REPULSE that worked with Movieshop. This gave you optical digital audio I/O and up to 96khz & 24bit.

Sound editing inside Movieshop is sparse. You can adjust levels, ramp with keyframing, mix tracks, but lacked filtering. A number of 3rd party apps could fill the void here. One of the more professional level apps is AudioLabs’ Pro Station Audio.
https://www.audiolabs.it/

The single feature I missed most in Movieshop is the inability to split a clip on the timeline. Movieshop has all these other great features & tools but that one was missing. There are workarounds that took a few extra steps.

If you get familiar with AREXX, you could create scripts to simply complex operations into easy short-cuts. You can also interface Movieshop with other applications that support AREXX, like ImageFX (Amiga’s Photoshop).

https://books.google.com/books?id=ad8GAwAAQBAJ&lpg=RA1-SA1-PA25&ots=9Z8PolOoKs&dq=amiga%20imagefx%20studio&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Workspace set up is very flexible and you can save custom window layouts for different workflows. I wish Media100 had something similar.

The DraCo was available in tower & cube models. I’ve got one of each. The Cube is slightly faster.

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

I typically zoom in enough to make the manual alignment easier.

The Movieshop NLE on my nearly 20 year old DraCo had a convenient auto alignment feature. You can align to “position”, “length”, “attach”.

Movieshop’s “position” feature is what you’re asking about and would be nice to have in Media100 but I don’t think Media100 has an easy auto option. You can get something similar, but it’s more involved. If you navigate the timeline with the cursor keys + OPTION key, it will jump the CTI to start/end points of clips on the track selected. Add a user mark there with F6. Drop you new clip on the timeline. Position the CTI at the user-mark by clicking on the user-mark. Then slide your new clip near the user-mark while holding the OPTION key. It should snap to the CTI position.

Movieshop’s “attach” is like Media100’s “Snap To Other Clips” option, under the tools menu.

Movieshop’s “length” is related to “position”. It will snap to position and adjust clip length to match. Useful for layering FX.

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

Usually when this happens to me, it is something I missed when I created the alpha channel. Stray lines along the border edge or stray pixels in the alpha channel that aren’t 100% black or 100% white.

You can fix it in the image editor of your choice. Sometimes you can tweak things in RED with a matte choker, or by cropping the edges a bit, or creating a new mask to address the garbage areas.

Another thing I noted is in relation to borders on graphics with alpha channels. If your graphic element is cropped tightly, then you apply a border in RED (too thick or too soft), it will sometimes crop that border if it exceeds the boundary edges of the graphic. I might drop the graphic into a composition clip and apply the border there in this case. Or give the original graphic some more buffer area around its edges.

I hope this helps.

Jaeson