[Kieran Matthew]

Cheers Floh,

I like the first idea, it might just work!

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Ok, done some tests and I have successfully created a m2v in Bitvice with chapter markers.

Unfortunately I have already encoded the 5 hours of material, and there’s no time left to re-encode.

Is there anyway to extract the chapter markers from the QT so I can import just that info into DVDSP? (importing the QT directly doesn’t yield chapter points even with the track enabled)

Otherwise it’s a long slog ahead putting them back in manually!

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Thanks for that.

I remember doing all of the above at one stage or another, but I’m wondering if I did all of them at the same time. I’ll try again and report back.

Many thanks

Kieran

[Kieran Matthew]

you can select the operating system to use in a number of ways. First you can select the “start-up disc” in the control panel or system preferences. Select the OS you want and restart.

Alternatively hold the “alt” key down whilst booting the mac and a selection screen will appear. The system searches your drives for available OS’s after which you can select the one you want.

[Kieran Matthew]

It’s funny though – Steve Bayes moves over to Final Cut Pro just as we all are ! 😉

[Kieran Matthew]

In theory yes, but if you could give us the model of G4 you are using, the Media 100 board and software version you have, we can have a better stab at answering.

Most (if not all) G4’s can be dual boot if you are already running os9. You can’t switch between the OSs without re-booting though, which may be more trouble than it is worth if it is just for printing.

Though I’d wager that once you’ve started using OSX, you won’t want to go back to OS9!

[Kieran Matthew]

I don’t know about OS9, or indeed about using a dial-up modem, but under OSX, with the machine connecting to the Internet through the ethernet connection, I have never experienced any problems. In fact OSX really works best on a connected machine as software updates etc come down automatically.

Under OSX you can have things like e-mail, and web browsers open in the background. You can even browse etc whilst Media 100 is rendering or exporting in the background(something I believe you couldn’t do before). The only thing Media 100 can’t do is digitise in the background – as soon as you switch applications, media 100 stops.

[Kieran Matthew]

Although I think that you’ve already ruled it out, I’d avoid those JVC combo decks, I heard that the DV decks in them are not very reliable at all.

I’d look out for a second hand VX1000 camcorder. The transports inside them seemed robust enough, (I used one as a source machine for a while) and since everyone ditched them in favour of PD-150’s (then 150’s for 170’s and now 170’s for the HD ones) they should be quite cheap.

Hope that helps!

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi,

This is a very common problem and stems from the way that media 100 (and other NLEs) handle incoming timecode. The system samples timecode at the start of digitising and then inserts its own generated TC into the file rather than continuing to read the inbound TC from the player. Usually this works fine, but if there is a TC jump within the DV recording the the system doesn’t see or account for that.

Media 100 is also meant to re-sample the inbound TC at the end of a digitised section and report of any inconsistency – but in my experience it doesn’t always do that, especially when digitising is stopped by a break in recording etc.

DVCam and DV are notorious for introducing TC jumps, sometimes of only a few frames when recodings are paused, stopped, re-cued, or resumed.

The only way to guard against it is to manually stop the digitising whenever a shot changes in the raw footage (pay particular attention when the pre-roll rolls the tape back past a cut) and then re-start for that shot.

To get yourselves out of the hole you are in now (and believe me I’ve been there!) you have two choices – 1 slip the picture back into sync, or 2 force redigitise the audio with the picture and adjust all the affected edits. I find setting up a two timelines with the off-line version, and the on-line and switching between the two at convenient timecodes will show which ones are wrong quickly, and also enable you to work out the offset.

Hope that helps!

[Kieran Matthew]

Another thing to check, if you haven’t already, is the open GL settings. I have it turned off, despite having a compatible graphics card as, if I remember rightly, attempting to use it caused crashing.

Hope that helps!