[John]

ah found it using google

https://www.media100.com/Products/peripherals.asp

maybe it needs a link on the site rob? dave?

[John]

bobby

thanx for the exhaustive update on 11

its seems strange that a problem – turn off scanning audio or get a hung system – which reared its head
back in about vers 3? is back again?

but i’m sure with lots of postings the crew at cedar hill will be fixing for us

john

[John]

stephen
out of interest does the diaquest plug in for M100 HD have the ability to adjust handles? or is the same as the 8.2 SD versions
john

[John]

i would go further

wait until the WWDC announcement and then pick up yourself a cheaper G5
with more RAM than you had expected.

G6, so what really!

Will it make any difference for the first 6-8 months? Hardly likely.

Quicktime will be buggy and Media 100 will be kept in the dark like
AJA as to what can be delivered. We know what G5’s can do right now

obviously, my five cents worth

john

[John]

hey elliot

for 8.2? or HD/SD Version after?

john

[John]

murray

please have a look at
https://artel-software.stores.yahoo.net/opup.html

by my reading the second item is OMF for HD? check with boris

john
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OMF Exchange for Media 100 i
24200
$595.00

OMF Exchange for Media 100 HD
41060
$595.00

[John]

Greg

I write as another Long time m100 user

When I was asked 12 months ago to post produce a multi-cam studio tv program which required SD i/out to DBeta and an OMF fed audio mix, I had to look at what you are looking at.

Leaving M100.

To be fair to BorisFx, this was in the dark days of M100.

But Multi cam in FCP is brilliant and works flawlessly, as does the OMF with audio handle management. I have no hesitiation in recommending a re-seller set up FCP suite. What either system (FCP or M100) can do for the money is amazing even when compared to the ill fated 844x project.

When FCP goes into Vers 6, you will have a mature product with a booming plug ins market and a good pool of users. lets not talk about getting freelancers to help with big jobs and yelling into what seems like a void “Do you know M100?”

So here are my thoughts. And in reading them pls be aware that like Floh (is it ok to compare myself to the Voice?) i have been a loyal user from way back who has spent considerable hours helping and some not inconsiderable monies promoting M100 Mac systems, SW and 844x when the company was owned or run by Molinari, Optibase and now BorisFx.

The main path you have got to obviously is time to change Apple Macs and also drives

this opens the field right up doesnt it?

I have never cut on Avid and I have done 2 jobs on a client’s Premiere Pro. For the other 9 years i have been staunchly M100. The past 12 months have been almost exclusively FCP.

I would say that FCP with AJA cards and a good Promax tower have been as reliable and trustworthy as all my M100’s from Vers 2.6

I wont get into the costs issue as that varies and i wont jump in on the OEM board comparisons. The fact that M100 has gone to AJA proves that Boris knows his plan.

The big big reason for me to go FCP was as i said was the multi cam feature and the audio export OMF option (which i note now pops up as an option for Media100HD sales) and also the necessary future s/w development of FCP. Apple needs to keep developing FCP and get new users, it will aim squarely at Avid users now that it has effectively seeen M100 fall away.

It seems BorisFX requires at least 2 years of solid sales to existing users to stabilise the ship and gain back the trust squandered by the inept Optibase management.

The main advantage i see for M100HD over FCP is the real time playback of mixed codecs.
But that’s it.

Please ask your re-seller when you get a demo, when will M100 deliver native HDV or P2 ingestion capability? Or ask them when they will have sub frame audio editing or any host of abilities that are immediate and available on FCP.

Ask them how many engineers they have working on new features and new code.

No disrespect to Dave C or Marshall here but the money Apple spends on FCP is considerable.

The time to market for new features is quicker when generated usually within Apple than at M100. The user interface and different user options aint that difficult. Seriously.

The UI isnt as intuitive as M100 granted but it does many things you only dream of with your existing system and if you lay out the keyboard with some familiar M100 shortcuts, i would be surprised if you werent cruising in a few months.

If you get a demo of M100 HD and it has everything you want, go ahead and buy it.
Nag the be-jesus out of them for features and push push push.

But if you are waiting on a must have option, and they cant show you it …dont buy.
IMHO I wouldnt bet my company(again) on a supplier who has a business proposition to sell a system based on the fear of moving to something new. Or that the good stuff is just around the corner.

Sure i am rooting for Boris and the crew but ……

Thats my 50 cents worth, give or take some foreign coin exchange fees

john

[John]

elliot
it would seem to me that buying a AJA kona 3 card would make sense. not only are they the best around IMHO but you may just find they work with your media 100 projects with a little bit of footwork (acc to derek)
john

“As most people know V11 is being sold with new AJA hardware/breakout box. Boris explained that the V11 updates will still be compatible with the HDX boards currently used with Media100 HD. The AJA hardware has some advantages though, particularly for those who have migrated to Final Cut Pro – all is forgiven, with a dual boot Mac and the AJA hardware the user will be able to run both Media100 HD and Final Cut Pro on the same Mac! (particularly useful if you have a lot of old Media100 timelines to access and now only own FCP!”

[John]

thnx tom

[John]

no problems dave, i understand

if there’s one person i dont mind losing out to,it is Dave C at M100!
john