Kieran Matthew
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Thanks Greggm,
K
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Hi Floh,
Thanks for that info.
K
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Hi OB1,
Not from the COW, but I did find someone who was selling a QA100 on Ebay UK. A US dealer bought his but didn’t want the manuals, so I bought both the user & service manuals from him.
He has a second set of manuals and is looking for a buyer, so if you post me an e-mail address I can get the two of you in touch if you want.
K
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Hi Ajmetz,
When I am making viewing copies of long things (like VHS’s or rushes) I record them on my DVD Recorder, then demux the disc to m2v & ac3 with Mpeg Streamclip and use these files in DVDSP to make a nicer branded Disc. You can get rid of the nasty recorder-made menu and put a nicer one in, or make the DVD self-start and loop etc. You can also put the chapter points in where you want them.
Also if you are using DVDSP 1.0 in OS9 but your superdrive won’t, you can always create a disc image in DVDSP and then burn it in OSX using Disk Utility.
K
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That was odd, it posted before I had finished. Spooky!
Anyway, I was just going to say good luck, and I hope you get what you want for your system.
K
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Hi Atariv8,
Welcome to the forum!
The first and most obvious answer to your question is eBay, but be warned, second hand Media 100’s don’t go for much on the open market.
More often than not in my experience, second hand systems get bought by existing users (like us lot here on the cow) as spare parts or upgrades to keep their suites going. So advertising here is good (though check the boards policy on advertising in posts)
Firstly though, you need to gather some more info about your system. You say you have an 8.2 system which is good, but you also need to know the following, most of which can be found from the “about Media 100” menu item.
*The software level, ie. XS, XR, LE etc. much below XS these days is not good (IMHO)
*The type of board the system uses, i.e. P6000 (good) or Vincent 601 (not so good)
*What add ons the system has, i.e. DV Option, Real Time FX, SDI option etc
Those details are the most important to a buyer who knows the system. After that, if you are selling a complete system, the Mac it is in and the amount of memory start to be a major factor. Quite often the machine is more valuable than the Media 100 within it, and it might be better to sell the Media 100 boards/software and the machine separately.
Armed with all that info you can list on eBay with a “Buy Now or Best Offer” set to the amount you’d like to get, and let the market value your system by looking at the offers you get, which you are under no obligation to accept.
My last piece of advice is to list internationally. The UK pound is still strong against the dollar and there are still users in the UK that buy stuff
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Hi Jerome,
On the track you’ve set as the imported clip, click the triangle to expand the track. You should now see three extra tracks, a mask track, the transitions track and the face track at the bottom. Click on this lower face track and the controls window will change to the face controls.
Here you can set the loop plus other useful things like the field order etc.
The face controls are especially useful when you use the text generator, as the face controls allow you to do things like type on, jitter, and all that sort of fun stuff.
K
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Hi Jerome,
When you launched RED there would have been two tracks set by default, the background V1 track and a text track above it.
Click on the media type of this track (the “T”) and a drop down menu appears, on this list there should be “media100 Bin Browser”
Let me know if that works
K
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Hi Jerome,
If the image is in a bin, use the “media 100 bin browser” option from the “change track media” menu in RED.
Once selected you might need to set the media to loop in its properties to make sure it lasts as long as your composition.
HTH
K
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Hi Alex,
I use a Boris FX composition clip placed above the clip I am treating.
Inside Boris, you make a new track and set it to V1, that allows you to apply filters etc to the video.
Filters to look for are the usual sat/lightness, brightness/contrast, tint, multi-tone etc.
If you have Final Effects – the glow filter can be quite useful, although I have built my own glows using blurs etc within Boris.
As for the vignettes that Top Gear uses, I set a new layer as a colour (black) and then make a new shape layer and use it as a mask. Bluring the Mask, altering the opacity of the colour and other general fiddling, gives you a picture that is normal brightness in the middle and then tailing off towards the edges.
As for the sky changing Grads, yes these are generally done as filters in camera, but you can achieve similar effects with the same process as above (with a different colour) or you can simply use the crop & blend controls to make a vertical graduation.
As you can tell I’m covering quite a lot of ground quite quickly so if you need a more detailed walkthrough of any of the above, let me know.
HTH
KP.S. Boris manuals are included as PDFs in the install. If you go to Help, they should be there!