[Seaniepie]

[Floh] “They work fine on my new 17″ PB with 1.5GB RAM”

I too have no problems with online material at high bitrates with an external drive. Not possible with the internal drive alone.

We are also using M100SW succesfully with online material sent across a gigabit network from our main M100HD system (ie, from the material stored on a G5 with 2 internal SATA drives, through the giga network to the powerbooks). We now effectively have 3 M100HD systems for a fraction of the cost. It means 3 of us can work on the same programme using the same material so we can independantly edit seperate parts of the same programme then combine them later. Way cool!

Sean Cole
Pi DIgital Productions Ltd
working with
Maverik Motion Pictures, Brighton

[Seaniepie]

It appears from the inclination of your words that you are unaware that a capturing version is soon to appear.

Here is another great thing in the meantime. You can capture with any other software you might already have such as iMovie and import said media (this can be found in the project if you right/ctrl click the project and choose ‘show package contents’) into M100SW. Cut it together in M100SW then export as a ref qt file to playback from iMovie direct to DV. Ignor any reverse field comments on import as it seems to sort itself out anyway.

I know, I know it doesnt keep the timecode info, but it’s a great stop gap for now if you don’t have M100i/HD but still want to use m100SW until the capturing version becomes available.

All the best..

Sean Cole
Pi Digital Productions Ltd

[Seaniepie]

My apologies. I did a search but found nothing & I tend to sort by thread and not time. thanks for the link floh

v.interesting thread tho. Interested to see that the problem was initially flagged in July! Funny, I have several issues I sent back in May with no response and certainly no updates. Please excuss the sarasm but I’ve been getting it in the ear from the tv stations I’ve been working with recently – that m100hd can’t even handle the simple, basic operations you expect in edit software. like reverse wipes, insert editing, batch digitising material on the v1-99 tracks, losing opacity nodes once batched, losing the original reference when a time fx is applied, losing the matte on a timefx clip.

It’s all adding up and with the current release of v10.2SW but HD left in the lurch and none of the above bugs even fixed in the SW version, I’m sure you can understand my frustration based on the lack of support and seeming lack of interest in the end users during the multiple company transitions.

To be fair and to balance the post, I think that M100 are by far the best editing packages on the planet especially HD & SW. I hope that Boris soon kicks the m100 support team back into life so that we can experience the same excellence we had a few years ago. Bring back the Customer Advocate and direct email support!

Rant over!

Sean

[Seaniepie]

If you are using v8 (bearing in mind that once you’ve trasfered a prog from v8 to SW you can’t send it back) my advice would be to wait until the version that can digitise is released. Even then, only do this if you tend to work with firewire/DV material to aquire from. If you work from component or other sources, an aditional component to firewire converter will be required.

We’ve been using 2 powerbooks in conjunction with the public beta and 1 full m100HD system to produce 15x23min progs for UKTV. It has been invaluable to us all. An inexpensive way of adding 2 extra edit suites to the existing 3 (1xHD; 1x XS v8.2; 1x LX v8.1). At least 2 definite buys here once the digitising version becomes available. It’s meant we could edit on the train, at home as well as in the studio to get the jobs completed. It will also prove itself I feel when we take it on a tour of resorts around the world for another series and edit on site for near immediate delivery to the station.

Cheers M100!

Sean

[Seaniepie]

I am editing on 2 1.67Ghz Powerbooks. Both with 1gig of ram and using the internal drive for media. The media is aquired on either our M100i or M100HD suites at a max of 40kbpf using the M100i codec. Although the image stutters a little, generally it works just fine. I was even able to get 3 streams running with opacity.

We are currently editing a series of 15 episodes for delivery mid this month. The timescale has been very tight so I’ve been editing on my 2hr journey by train on occasion. It’s amazing how I can take the project with me anywhere. This is freedom! I’m going to have to write up a case story for this as it has been such an amazing experience (dispite the many bugs currently in the M100HD/SW software).

All the best

Sean Cole
Pi Digital Productions Ltd

[Seaniepie]

Yeah, I was still getting this when I removed the extra ram we have down to the 2gig recomended. (Floh, Why is there a 2gig limit on the program? What are the issues with this?).

The events seem eratic althogh the easiest way to get it up eventually is by having another program open like AE6 in the background. The programmes I am editing are 30min. dunno if this might affect it. Used to have issues in v7 when we had a lot of titles. maybe this is a similar thing.

Also got it when I was swaping between Word and M100. I don’t tend to get a force quit comment but it just starts seizing up, so I end up shutting it down and restarting anyway.

I will try and keep you posted. Where are the logs held so we can look at what is going on? I could send these on if it happens again

Cheers

Sean Cole

[Seaniepie]

Yeah, that and we don’t have BorisFX or Red. Nevermind!

SC

[Seaniepie]

Yep, this is the way I have been doing it. It’s a bit of a pain now that we are onlining and this effect was set in the treatment. Only another 56 to remake. Joy!

Cheers Floh

Sean

[Seaniepie]

Make sure smooth motion is disabled