Marcus Warren
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Floh, I sure hope that you are doing your best to convince Boris that the enhanced player you mentioned is really crucial. As you infer, even without new features this player would certainly add longevity to M100. I have already emailed a similar appeal to Boris and I hope that other M100 users will do so as well.
I have a couple of cameras on my shopping list and I have no idea if the codecs and formats they use will *easily* work with M100 (see my earlier post). Otherwise it will be time to add another NLE to my toolkit, if not switch to another one altogether (sorry, Michael Stowe).
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Like Andy, I am curious if Floh is using an unreleased version (I’m sure he is since he says 2.1.3 won’t work with Mavericks) and while BorisFX says there will be no feature upgrades to M100 does that mean that M100 is stuck at 32bit?
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Good question and actually it’s “Mavericks”.
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Hi Robert, I had indeed done all that you suggested before I posted. Interestingly, I went and shot test footage in 30f and 24f and they captured with no issues, so I shot additional test footage at 60i and it captured with no problems. So I went back to the original tape and uploaded it with no further issues. I have no idea what changed, but as I mentioned in the first post I initially tried two different computers with two different licensed installs of M100 Suite and it just flat wouldn’t work.
Thanks for taking the time to troubleshoot with me.
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Hi Jeff. Can you provide a link to the video that you are using as a reference? Are you wanting to replicate the moves using titles generated by Boris Graffiti? if not, is this something that you could possibly do with Corel VideoStudio X6 (or the Ultimate version) or Corel’s MotionStudio?
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A reinstall has apparently fixed the problem.
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Interestingly, Michael, the day that I read your post, I saw on the COW homepage a new tutorial in the Vegas Pro called training series called Compositing Modes. Maybe the Avid users will migrate to Sony Vegas Pro.
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To the possible ire of Michael Stowe, I have to ask: Is Media 100 the only professional NLE that does not allow blend mode compositing on the timeline (or without leaving the timeline)?
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Michael, just review all of the other posts from the last two to three years about what essential magical features we have been asking for. You’ll probably still be puzzled but at least you will have your answer(s).
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Jack, here are some considerations for your next NLE. If you can hang on for the rest of the year, I believe that your chooses will become clearer: You have your own opinions about Adobe and Premiere but consider the following. Keep in mind that my thoughts include my own speculation:
Apple Final Cut Pro – supposedly when the new MacPro is released, there will be a new version of FCP that will take advantage of all of the wonderful tech in the new MP. Presumably, that also means a new version of FCP that also has new features for “everyone else” as well.
Blackmagic Design’s daVinci – The forthcoming version ten includes an NLE so editing and grading will be very simple to do in one application. The editing capability may be rather basic in this first try, but I suspect the BMD wants to turn DaVinci into a capable editor down the road. From what I’ve read, the editor will also be included in the free version of DaVinci.
Blender – This open source 3D application has had a built in editor for a while. It too is rather basic, I’ve read, and the application does not do media capture. But Tears of Steel was edited with it, and the editor (called the VSE) is a top priority on the development list. And being open-source, Blender is free.
Edit Share’s Lightworks – I expect that you will see the beta version of Lightworks for Mac later this year. It might be a worth a look. The current Pro version of the software sells for a subscription rate of $60 a year.
FX Home’s HitFilm – The Mac version is scheduled to debut in November and I suspect that means a new version will be released for all platforms. It seems that the NLE capabilities are basic, but I would expect those features to deepen, and with all else that you can do in HitFilm, it looks quite capable.
Media 100 – I am not sure how BorisFX will reconcile Media 100 with newer versions of BorisRED but while there are supposedly no new features for M100, perhaps new versions of BorisRED will make up for that. BorisFX is giving assurances that M100 will play well with future OSX updates (one is coming soon) and 3rd party devices.
Sony Vegas Pro – Nothing has been said about porting Vegas Pro to Mac that I am aware of but Sony now has two pro-level software applications that are available for Mac, where there were none before. The top of the line packaging of Vegas Pro includes HitFilm and we know that FxHome is developing a Mac version of HitFilm. Can a Mac version of Vegas Pro be far behind?
My thoughts? Wait until the end of the year (or end of Q1, 2014) to decide and see how all of the above shakes out. You will have a lot of choices. Avid’s financial picture may become clearer and Adobe’s CC implementation may go through some minor tweaks. You might decide to stick with M100.
I am waiting to see how M100 plays with the next version of RED. Even if there are no new M100 features, per se, will M100 have to become a 64 bit app to play with RED or will the M100-specific version of RED have to be “dumbed down” to 32 bits, or is there a hybrid solution that Boris is working on? I think that we will have all of our answers for all of the software mentioned as early as November and not later than March, 2014.