Robert L. kopf
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Thanks for your reply. I was hoping to find an inteface that would work over Thunderbolt or USB3 or something, to allow me to use a Macbook Pro, iMac or other non-PCI Mac.
Assuming that I have to get a silver tower Mac Pro, what model or models should I look for? What spec’s matter to the ingest of media for the Media 100?
Is it possible (or desirable) to ingest video by some means other than using the Media 100? In other words, could I use something like one of the Blackmagic Designs converter boxes or some other interface, and ingest video into the computer using that and some app like Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro 7, or whatever, and then open and edit the saved files in Media 100?
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Yay! I’m going to order it, as soon as I figure out what all else I need to go with it. I’ve been using old versions of Media 100 for a long time.
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Well I too, would like to put together a such setup, but using the new Macbook Pro, and Media 100, with the Matrox I/O. So I’d love to hear about your progress, if you happen to get there before I do. I will get back to you if I get my system together first.
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Didn’t the Media 100 guys tell you what you’d need to do? I’m guessing that a newer Macbook Pro would maybe be the answer. I realize that may be expensive enough to give pause. But I’m about to buy a bottom-of-the-line Macbook Pro and a big external display. I hope that it will let me edit 1080, although that won’t be what I’ll be using it for initially.
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I get what you’re saying. And thanks much for the input. The AJA io HD and io LA look like interesting units for our applications. I will look into the Media 100 compatibility issues. I remember being more aware of these units when they came out. But somehow, they slipped off my RADAR.
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Thanks for the reply Marcus. But since I don’t have any Macbook Pros yet, when I get them (they’ll be new and), they’ll have Thunderbolt I/O. So it seems like the thing to use would be the Matrox Thunderbolt MX02 stuff.
I’ll post back here when/if I do that, to let you know how it works out.
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I notice that there are no answers to this post (?). I’m thinking about the same things. If we get a new Mac Pro to run a new v2 Media 100 Suite, then we’d be looking at something like the Kona LHi with its breakout box. But we may get a couple of new Macbook Pros and pair them with the (announced today at NAB) MX02 LE units with Thunderbolt.
I am particularly interested in the part about the Matrox MXO2 devices not being as well-integrated with Media100 as the AJA Kona cards. There must be somebody who has more to say about that. I’d be happy to call on the phone to hear about it, if people just don’t want to go on record here about it.
Another thing that I’d like to hear opinions about (assuming we were to go with an MX02 variant) is whether or not anybody thinks that the Matrox MAX technology is worthwhile, and for what workflows.
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According to what I just read on mactrast.com, in a press release (dated today), Matrox did in fact announce Thunderbolt support in all old (and apparently new) MX02 products. I haven’t read anything yet about any new MX02 products yet.
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There’s not an answer to my “Can a current Media 100 system work with v8 timelines, clips, etc.” question in your response.
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[Floh Peters] “I have done that in a controlled environment. With ProRes422 in SD you should be good to capture at least 2 streams onto a “small” Raid system attached to your edit system, and still be able to continue editing on the same machine.”
That sounds good. I wouldn’t even need to use the system containing those drives to edit at the same time. I’d just dump the streams to them as it was being shot. I could certainly live with not editing on that machine while the shoot was in progress. Do you have an opinion about what kind of “small” RAID we’d be talking about? Could I just stripe two drives (using disk utility) hooked to an internal SATA card, or would I need to use some kind of RAID-specific card?