[Michael Rosing]

Thanks! That made sense, that the box was opening up off screen.
I had a box checked in my Nvidia nView control panel that is supposed to ‘prevent windows from opening off screen’ but that did not help. Then I noticed another option called ‘dialog box repositioning’ that allowed me to force dialog boxes to open on my display ‘number 1’ (I only have one monitor connected). That worked! Thanks again.

M.R.

Can you try gathering the windows somehow? It may have been dragged outside of the standard workspace.

[Michael Rosing]

You could turn off the “relink Media” function and add the “correct” folders manually. Otoh I don’t see a problem in accessing the “wrong” files or folders.

Thanks, Floh.

A possible problem with using the wrong folders is that if I perform a ‘delete unused media’ it may lose files from other projects.

[Michael Rosing]

You could turn off the “relink Media” function and add the “correct” folders manually. Otoh I don’t see a problem in accessing the “wrong” files or folders.

Thanks, Floh.

A possible problem with using the wrong folders is that if I perform a ‘delete unused media’ it may lose files from other projects.

[Michael Rosing]

You could turn off the “relink Media” function and add the “correct” folders manually. Otoh I don’t see a problem in accessing the “wrong” files or folders.

Thanks, Floh.

A possible problem with using the wrong folders is that if I perform a ‘delete unused media’ it may lose files from other projects.

[Michael Rosing]

Could you please explain why you installed your Adobe apps on both drives/partitions? Couldn’t you just run the Adobe applications off of the one drive or partition where they are installed, even if you boot from a different drive? Thanks.

[Michael Rosing]

I am still using 7.5.1 and the old Comet CG. I understand that it would not be possible to edit those old titles, but Comet created quicktime movies (with a .HAL suffix) that play fine if I bring them in manually in Producer.

Also, I created many 640 x 480 titles in Photoshop (with an alpha channel) that also do not play in the Producer. Again, these were rendered out in 7.5.1, so a quicktime movie exists, Producer just won’t play it unless I manually bring it back into Producer.

Finally, the same problem exists for unrendered Photoshop titles in Producer. If I re-import them in Producer, they will be resized and play fine. But if I open an old program from 7.5.1 with an unrendered photoshop title (with alpha) into Producer, I get a dialog that says “the title doesn’t match the current frame size and motion will be set to custom”, and it won’t key.

[Michael Rosing]

“Your documents and media would move seamlessly to your new systems.”

I wish this was true, because I would like to upgrade my Media 100 systems.

I recently evaluated the latest version of Producer, and it does not play my old titles. My programs were produced in 640 x 480. Although Producer has no problem playing back the 640 x 480 clips in the A-B tracks, it can’t handle them in the graphics track. If I re-import the titles individually and replace them manually it will work, but that is impractical with hundreds of titles. These titles exist as rendered .HAL files in the media folder.

[Michael Rosing]

“If you really need uncompressed HD you should be ready to make some serious investments into either FibreChannel or heavy SATA arrays.”

Has anyone tried running Media 100 in HD using a RAID based on the internal storage available on the new Macs?
Couldn’t you just put three 750GB SATA discs inside the Mac and stripe them together, separate from the system drive?

I asked the guys at the Media 100 booth this at NAB, and they said they had never tried it. It sure would be more economical than external arrays.

[Michael Rosing]

Bring your 720 clip into a 640 x 480 program in After Effects, and position your clip down one pixel. You may need to squeeze it horizontally slightly, but don’t do any vertical scaling.
Render it out as a Media 100 640 x 480 movie, and you are set.

Working in Media 100i and I have a 720 clip that needs to go into a 640 timeline. I’ve been trying different ways to export it and bringing it back in but I always end up with strobing (due to I suppose the difference between the 720 and 640). Any suggestions on how to do this? Never have had to go backwards before.
And since I am asking – what if I wanted to go 640 to 720.

[Michael Rosing]

If you use motion JPEG B at 100% you will not lose any quality.

After you pick Motion JPEG B in the compression settings box in AE, click on the ‘options’ button and set the fields to two and field dominance to odd. Make sure upper field first is _also_ set in the render settings box.

Hey Michael, I’m using the m100 720 NTSC codec to render in AE. It’s lower field dominant, that’s why i flipped the dominance. Do you loose any quality with the JPEG B codec? I’ve never used it – and quite frankly don’t know much about it! I don’t have cleaner – but AE did the job pretty quickly. Any thoughts? Kind Regards, Chris K.