[Peter Dearmond]

Hi Brian,

I’ve never heard of the backfocus on the HM700 coming completely undone. I do know that Tim Dashwood recommends resetting the backfocus every time you change environments, because things like temperature change can throw it off a little (but not a lot, I would think). Dashwood’s comment on this is at the 3-minute mark of this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHsZFY5_s6g

You shouldn’t have to do anything special to bring XDCAM footage into FCP. The 700 was practically designed for it. It wraps XDCAM in QuickTime (.mov) files, which just transfer right into FCP.

I too shoot everything in 720p60 HQ, and I don’t have any compelling reason to change from that. For monitoring on my Media 100 edit system (I don’t use FCP), I use a cheap Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro card, which feeds HDMI into a VIZIO 22-inch Razor LED HDTV. No, it’s not a professional monitor, but it’s the next best thing and really affordable. I’ve never seen any jitters from anything I’ve shot on the HM700.

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[Peter Dearmond]

I’m on OS 10.6.8, using M100 Suite 2.0.1. I’m using ProRes most of the time, but after I saw this I imported a file using the Media 100 HD codec. No problems, plays fine. Just so I understand the problem, are you saying that the problem will occur if I export the file using the Media 100 HD codec? Have you tried using QuickTime Player 7?

[Peter Dearmond]

It’s true, sad to say, that under the previous ownership Media 100 nearly died. But I must say that since Boris Yamnitsky bought the company, tremendous improvements have been made. Media 100 is a legitimate, reliable workhorse that is absolutely a joy to use.

[Peter Dearmond]

Good on you, Paul. A couple of us have posted nice comments about Media 100 on another list (outside the COW) just to remind a lot of former M100 users that the new Suite is, well, sweet.

[Peter Dearmond]

Ah, that explains it. I had just installed the new Motion 5 beforehand.

[Peter Dearmond]

Hmm, it seemed to install fine for me without Pacifist. But thanks for the tip Floh!

[Peter Dearmond]

Here’s what appears in the Console log when I click Export:

[0x0-0x32032].com.Media100.Media100Suite[1329] Unknown exception caught in top level handler

Video and audio standards: All the video I shoot is 720p60 (actually 59.94); all my timelines are 720p 59.94, which always works; audio is 48k.

I import video as Apple ProRes HQ and sometimes just Apple ProRes normal.

I don’t have an extra boot disk.

I never have problems exporting uncompressed ranges or program timelines as files that I import into Episode for encoding for the internet.

Everything works fine except for the XML export.

[Peter Dearmond]

With the black clip it was the same result.

[Peter Dearmond]

Yes, so far it happens with every program, no matter what size. I’ve tried exporting the entire program or just a selected range, same result.

[Peter Dearmond]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I do get the export dialog window, but after I name the file and click on Export, everything disappears with no error message.