[Kieran Matthew]

Hi John,

I only have a few Adobe apps, and I just installed them on both partitions.

However as you have a lot of them you might want to consider installing them on one partition, cloning it to the other then installing the media 100/FCP AJA drivers, much as you probably did when you first set up the system.

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi David,

Have you got “auto-update monitor” enabled in the preview menu?

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Zamor1,

Although the classic “Time Remap” function of other edit systems is still absent from the Media 100 toolset, V12 does allow you to apply Boris filters to clips directly. One of the filters in Boris RED (and perhaps others), BCC Velocity Remap does allow keyframed time remapping.

I have yet to try V12 so cannot confirm directly that this works without other issues – perhaps another V12 user (Floh?) could verify this?

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Dave,

Unfortunately the free media 100 codecs are PPC only. Media 100 decided not to make the Intel codecs free downloads – you have to buy Producer to get them. Once you have them you can install them on (I believe) multiple machines.

HTH

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Peter,

Yes, this is an ongoing issue, not helped by the fact it seems to be a PAL problem, and that it only affects certain decks. The M25E, for example, doesn’t seem to suffer from it.

Perhaps if we, as a community, could list all the decks/cameras we have had problems with, it would give Media 100 something to go on.

For me, as mentioned in the other thread, it was an M10E.

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi David,

[David Issko] “How can I have the text page X and Y coordinates for say a line of text default to HOLD when I move the line down to the subtitle area at the lower part of the screen. Once I move if from centre default, it changes to ease in/ease out.”

Hmm, yes, I have always wondered why Boris insist on having this as the factory default – I can’t change it to hold fast enough.

Anyway, if it is like the new version of RED, they have moved the preference for the default interpolation to a new menu. Go to Window > Spline curves (I think, doing this from memory) and up will pop a tabbed menu. From this select the keyframe tab and set your defaults there.

I hope that helps. Why Boris decided to move all this around is a complete mystery.

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Juanjo,

I work sitting down. I too have seen Walter’s standy-up workstation and wondered if it works, but surely he just ends up with tired legs? He seems a fairly passionate sort of guy so perhaps he moves around a lot while working.

I have a high backed office chair, though one that has no particular back support as such. One of my colleagues had a chair with all manner of adjustable bits and I have to say it did seem more comfortable in a “still lets you work” sort of way.

TBH I have always been more concerned for my eyes, and take regular VDU breaks, plus keep my broadcast monitor just far enough away so I do a proper re-focus when looking at playback. But that’s another topic altogether.

More of a ramble than an answer I’m afraid!

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi John,

[John Smith] ” do you mean that in Media100 you put a title or composition and put a black band over the video clip? “

Yep. I’m using a MacPro so the tile/composition renders in real time which helps. I also render this title in a DV codec so the resulting byref export is already in a form that Compressor likes. Bitvice is great, but very slow on a MacPro compared to Compressor.

Having said that, I notice that you moved to FCP for grading. In this case it may well be simpler to nest your sequence and use the crop controls to cut of the top lines. As this is the final port of call before encoding it may well be better to do it there.

Don’t try to crop in Compressor though, the result is not good!

K

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Dave,

I haven’t changed anything within FCP that I know of. The only possible factor is that I opened the RED keyframer outside of FCP, whilst FCP was running, just before this kicked off – could that have any baring on this?

It does seem that this is an FCP thing rather than a RED thing, would trashing any preference files help?

Would it help if I was on FCP6? I have the upgrade, but was waiting for this project to be over before I installed it.

Thanks again,

Kieran

[Kieran Matthew]

Hi Peter,

Cool, thanks!

If I can help with more details etc, please just let me know!

K