[Matty O’tool]

If you plan to stay on the PC, I would suggest looking at Sony’s Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum (around $100 US). It will edit with your AVCHD files and has a decent feature set. I can’t speak to how easy it is to learn but it shouldn’t be too bad.

[Matty O’tool]

Excellent, glad this worked out for you.
Yes, it does seem that .ai 8 files are more reliable.

Good luck

[Matty O’tool]

Hi Andrew,
Is your graphic still in Vector form?
If it is rasterized I do not beleive it will work as an EPS in Boris.
Try exporting your Paths from Flash to Illustrator (if that can be done, i’m not sure as i’m not flash guy).
Save out of Illustrator as an illustrator 9 .ai file.

See if this gives you any positive results.

[Matty O’tool]

Hi Marcus,
Ok, in that case, there is a very easy way to do this in Media100.
You can use the “Wipe Designer” fast Effect in the Transitions menu.
Put your talking head clip on the A Track,and your graphic clip on the B track. Create a transition between them and choose Wipe designer from the list of avaiable transitions.
You can then navigate to your B&W matte still from the wipe designer dialog.
Wipe designer gives you a bunch of options. Such as wether to transition between the black and white areas of the matte, or don’t transition at all and just use it as a matte.

Unfortunately, i’m not in front of my sytem right now, so this is from memory, but this is how us old time Media100 guys used products like Pixelan SpiceMaster back in the day.

I beleive Wipe Designer is a fast effect as well, meaning it requires no rendering.

[Matty O’tool]

Hi Marcus,
I’m not sure how this is laid out in your time-line (program).
Are you using video tracks or the A/B roll track.
I’m also not entirely sure what your intended result is.
I think you are only trying to key through your top layer, resulting in the bottom layer being visible below.

Try This:
You have Your two clips in Video 1 and 2 in your Media100 timeline.
Select The clip in Video 2
Choose “Edit” from the Edit Suite.
Your clip from Video 2 is now in RED.
Import the B&W matte to RED.
Open Your clip on the RED Timeline (twirl down).
Drag and drop the B&W Matte onto the Mask track for that Video track.
option click on the Mask track to add a filter.
Add the Make Alpha filter from the Keys and Mattes catagory.
You should now be seeing through the video to either Black, or the checkerboard.
Click Apply.
Back in Media 100, you should now have Video 2 with the alpha so you can see video 1 below it.

Again, I think this is what you are trying to acheive.

[Matty O’tool]

You can not apply Mattes to clips in the M100 timeline.
You would use the included Boris RED for that.

[Matty O’tool]

Hi Paul,
The Master Bus in media100 allows for a “Master gain that will control the over all gain of your Audio tracks on output. It can also be used to apply Audio effects (reverb, EQ, Limiting and such) to all of your audio tracks simultaniously.
-Hope this helps

[Matty O’tool]

Hi guys,
Just a clarification on how HDV works. It is a form of Mpeg and it uses “I frames”. With an “I Frame” every 15 frames or so depending on the brand of camera you are using.
The other frames don’t exsist. So you can capture this footage directly in FCP “and retain the HDV File format, however, if you don’t cut directly on an I frame you must render the clip in FCP. I have found that it is best (just an opinion) to capture your HDV to another Codec either through M100 or final Cut (Apple intermediate codec is good). This will also allow for re-digitizing (I have not had any luck re-diging native HDV footage). At NAB I saw that Media100 has included/will be including, a new “Compressed HD” Codec that is super small (the rep told me as low as 7meg per second)and it looked fantastic.
Hope this clears some stuff up.

[Matty O’tool]

It totally makes sense that AJA would not want the OEM hardware(this implies some sort of exclusive partnership for this particular board) to be “Multi-purpose”. I’m assuming that AJA wants to sell MORE hardware, and not one board that runs 2 or 3 apps. While the KONA branded cards do this ( althought you might notice only one “editing” app runs on the Kona) none of the other AJA OEM hardware has these capabilities. Yup thats right, AJA OEMs hardware for a few other companies too. Media100 just made the mistake of letting you know it was AJA hardware. Holding Media100 or AJA or Apple responsible for this is silly, they are all trying to make money. The fact that some are saying Media100 missed the mark is just wrong, perhaps they didn’t make the desision to keep other apps off the hardware, it is possible that the decision was made for them.

-Reason

[Matty O’tool]

It totally makes sense that AJA would not want the OEM hardware(this implies some sort of exclusive partnership for this particular board) to be “Multi-purpose”. I’m assuming that AJA wants to sell MORE hardware, and not one board that runs 2 or 3 apps. While the KONA branded cards do this ( althought you might notice only one “editing” app runs on the Kona) none of the other AJA OEM hardware has these capabilities. Yup thats right, AJA OEMs hardware for a few other companies too. Media100 just made the mistake of letting you know it was AJA hardware. Holding Media100 or AJA or Apple responsible for this is silly, they are all trying to make money. The fact that some are saying Media100 missed the mark is just wrong, perhaps they didn’t make the desision to keep other apps off the hardware, it is possible that the decision was made for them.

-Reason