Re: A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher

Walter, you might want to revisit Media 100 Suite 2.1 when things calm down. It has really grown up. Works on Lion, support for 4K, 2K, HD, and SD, Recode RAW,multiple formats and frame sizes on timeline, native codec QuickTime support including DVCProHD, ProRes, REDCODE, and others. Mixes supported codecs in one timeline without conversion or rendering. Plays well with tape ingest/layoff as usual. $995 w Boris Red, free demo available, http://www.borisfx.com/media100/index.php Included w everything Boris makes for Mac in the Box Set $1995 http://www.borisfx.com/Box-Set/ which includes all filters and effects and transfer sfw for AE and FCP7. Only caveat is AJA 9.0.6 driver officially supported. 10.x, out this summer, but firmware downgrades/upgrades on AJA are quick and easy. AJA still working on that anyway. Still my favorite easy to use interface. PP and M100 are a good combo using ProRes. Learned the interoperability tricks, mostly involving a couple of ProRes HQ export settings in Premiere,on my last project.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17" 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe