[Melodie Myers]

–HA!

Soooo, to sum up all of those responses not many, someone asked me what editor I used last week and when I said Media 100 a look of bewilderment was returned… that’s kind of cool in some respects(that no one uses this cool application and worrisome in others) —

I’m new to Media100, although my college had Media100 work stations back in the mid90s, which is partly what brought me back here almost 20 years later when I went looking for an editor last year and FCP just wasn’t appealing to me — the other bit was/is I got Boris RED and an editor for 600 bucks, sounded like a deal to me. Needless to say, the first few weeks of owning Media 100 were somewhat painful — and I was concerned I had made a 600.00 mistake, as evidenced by my first post on this forum– I find the documentation lacking at times(fortunately, the application is fairly intuitive) and the fact that their aren’t many users makes finding someone that has experienced a similar issue difficult–

That said, I’m finishing my second project on Media 100, I still have loads to learn, but I’m liking it more and more every time I use it — I watched my editor friend fumble around with syncing audio for 45 minutes in FCP last Saturday — and I did the same sync in Media 100 last night in about 3 minutes and I have no idea what I’m doing, so there’s something to be said for that —

I hope more folks come to know Media 100(again)– that can only helps matters…

m-L

[Melodie Myers]

I have the Canon XA10 — I use Clipwrap, mostly because that’s what Media 100 seems to want me to use(I believe there are other/cheaper options out there) — it’s fairly speedy, no complaints.

m–

[Melodie Myers]

Hi Michael —

I actually make my entrance from the audio side of things, 10 years ago people were just happy if you managed to get some type of cruddy video with audio on VHS tape… not so anymore, being adept at both audio and video has become more and more a condition of staying employed– I spend 50% of my day dealing with video –Media 100 was the first non-linear video editor I worked on(circa 1997), I went away for summer vacation during college one year and came back to find all of the hot splice stations and the huge editor that took up an entire room replaced by dozens of Media 100 workstations(so I’m not that young, I got a taste of the very end of those days)– which is why I remembered Media 100 when I decided to buy software a couple of months ago — I’ve used FCP off and on over the years, but with all of this business with the new FCP, I looked somewhere else and Media 100 won —

I’m probably a little impatient, I think I’m getting old:) I know what I want to do and I’m having that disconnect of not knowing how to do it at the moment — I’m very excited to get to the stuff that looks like hours of fun on the Boris Red side, but alas I must walk before I can run — so back to the beginner tutorials. Thanks for the input everyone —

[Melodie Myers]

No, I don’t have one — I’ve been trying to gather them from the manual, that would be quite helpful.

Thanks.

melodie@pushgo.com

[Melodie Myers]

Hi Floh:

Thanks for the response — after another 30 minutes of random clicking, I found that the sync mark was not labeled(by clicking on the user mark, a window opens with all of the user marks in that clip and the label area was indeed blank), once I gave it a label the Sync Marks were available as an option in multiclip — and my clips came out in sync, I was as happy as I could be at 3 in the morning– this was also true for the Camera Angles bit a few days ago, but it was more obvious to me since I could see that the Reel name area was blank in the bin.

I’m not quite sure if there’s a setting that I need to apply to not have to do that everytime I want to Sync multiclips using sync marks, more reading is in order — but I could not find that tiny detail in the user manual so far — now I’m trying to decide exactly how obvious the answer to my question was I knew it was something really simple– I don’t want to be a nuisance on here with remedial questions — everyone seems to be advanced users.

Thanks again for the information–

m–