From greenrw at shaw.ca Wed Nov 1 21:03:29 2006 From: greenrw at shaw.ca (Robert Green) Date: Wed Nov 1 21:03:39 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Disk image Message-ID: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> I am running OS 10.4.7. I made a movie in imovie and burned it to a dvd with idvd. This disk works fine when played on the computer or dvd player. I no longer have the original movie and want to make a copy. I tried disk utility which made a disk image. First it creates a download manager folder which when opened should give me the movie but all I see are the Video ts and audio ts folders. What am I doing wrong. From gordon.alley at gmail.com Wed Nov 1 21:51:05 2006 From: gordon.alley at gmail.com (Gordon Alley) Date: Wed Nov 1 21:57:48 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Disk image In-Reply-To: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> References: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <9694f6510611012151t6e5bfc0au73b0831e24a243ca@mail.gmail.com> To copy an existing unprotected video DVD with Apple's Disk Utility, follow these steps: - Mount the original DVD on your desktop (quit the DVD player program if it starts up). - In Disk Utility (it's in the Applications/Utilities folder), select the DVD disc you just mounted. - Select File->New->Disk Image from [name of your DVD volume]. - In the dialog that opens up, select a name and location for the image file. IMPORTANT: before clicking Save, select DVD/CD Master from the Image Format popup, and leave the Encryption popup set to None. - Click Save and wait for the image to be created. - Unmount the original DVD. - If the new image doesn't appear in the lower left pane in DU, select File->Open Disk Image... and open the image file you just created (it should have a .cdr extension). This will mount the image as a disc, and add it's name to the lower left pane. If the image's Finder disc window opens, you can just close the window. - Select the name of the image file (not the mounted volume icon) in the lower left pane of DU. You should see the Burn toolbar icon become selectable. Click on it (or select Images->Burn...) to burn a new DVD. Gordon On 11/1/06, Robert Green wrote: > I am running OS 10.4.7. I made a movie in imovie and burned it to a > dvd with idvd. This disk works fine when played on the computer or > dvd player. I no longer have the original movie and want to make a > copy. I tried disk utility which made a disk image. First it creates > a download manager folder which when opened should give me the movie > but all I see are the Video ts and audio ts folders. What am I doing > wrong. -- Gordon B. Alley http://galley.home.texas.net From allan at dsol.co.uk Thu Nov 2 02:39:37 2006 From: allan at dsol.co.uk (Allan) Date: Thu Nov 2 02:39:56 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Disk image In-Reply-To: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> References: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <0A84D68F-734C-4E29-86F4-DD9C412AFE0F@dsol.co.uk> On 2 Nov 2006, at 05:03, Robert Green wrote: > I am running OS 10.4.7. I made a movie in imovie and burned it to a > dvd with idvd. This disk works fine when played on the computer or > dvd player. I no longer have the original movie and want to make a > copy. Have you had a look at Cinematize 2? Tad pricey but does the job. More info at: http://www.miraizon.com/products/products.html Allan Johns. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20061102/b59c554e/attachment.html From winter at mac.com Thu Nov 2 06:14:02 2006 From: winter at mac.com (Michael Winter) Date: Thu Nov 2 06:14:20 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Disk image In-Reply-To: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> References: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <86DC588C-C5F5-425B-B1E6-50949D10FCFC@mac.com> Gordon explained a good way to do it. I just wanted to add if you have a copy of Toast around, using its copy feature is pretty easy too. If not, follow Gordon's directions. -Mike > I am running OS 10.4.7. I made a movie in imovie and burned it to a > dvd with idvd. This disk works fine when played on the computer or > dvd player. I no longer have the original movie and want to make a > copy. I tried disk utility which made a disk image. First it > creates a download manager folder which when opened should give me > the movie but all I see are the Video ts and audio ts folders. What > am I doing wrong. > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From tfincham at bigpond.net.au Thu Nov 2 17:15:02 2006 From: tfincham at bigpond.net.au (Tony Fincham) Date: Thu Nov 2 17:16:03 2006 Subject: [MacDV] FCP and DVD Studio Pro In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <115392C4-5B16-4EED-A574-DAD7034F1D4D@bigpond.net.au> On 31/10/2006, at 10:22 PM, carlian wrote: > Application is still spitting the dummy as soon as it starts on > encoding the actual movie track. Ian, I can't answer you problems directly, but would like to give you my experience of over coming similar "track burning problems" with DVDSP. Occasionally, I have trouble with the track/disc not burning and the DVDSP Application quitting on running File/Advanced Disc Burn/Build and Format (which is the way I have been recommended to burn a DVD disc in DVDSP). This I have attributed to a corrupted video track file. (This can happen for example if you use complicated video files in your FCP Timeline Sequence. I have met it when importing and using LiveType video sequences, for example). I have always been able to solve such DVDSP problems, by starting over and exporting the finished FCP project/sequence back to DV tape. Then re-importing the video into FCP as a new project and name, exporting it as a Quicktime Movie as I described in an earlier post, and re-authoring a new DVD in DVDSP, and via Advanced Burn, burn the DVD as described above. Hope that helps. Tony (from Melbourne, Australia). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20061103/b4d3e429/attachment-0001.html From derek at unm.edu Thu Nov 2 20:29:04 2006 From: derek at unm.edu (Derek Roff) Date: Thu Nov 2 20:29:13 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Moving iMovie project from one machine to another In-Reply-To: <20061103011608.9134B37DDCA@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20061103011608.9134B37DDCA@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: > Both machines were Tiger PPC > I'm not sure about which versions of iMovie they were but I think they > were close. "Close" may not be good enough for the iMovie versions. Projects which I created in iMovie version 4 give me a warning message when I open them in version 5 or 6. The warning says that if I proceed, I will not be able to edit/open the project again in the original software. This could be a factor in the problem Richard is having. It may be necessary to have the same version of iMovie on both machines. Can versions 5 and 6 swap project files back and forth? Derek Derek Roff Language Learning Center Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 Internet: derek@unm.edu From macman at chasquis.com Fri Nov 3 01:17:47 2006 From: macman at chasquis.com (John Guzman) Date: Fri Nov 3 01:17:59 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Network Problem In-Reply-To: References: <20061103011608.9134B37DDCA@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: We recently changed (Win 2003 servers)servers at our office,and now the new server and others computer in the network can not be seen by my Macs(4 G5s).I can ping all of them,but simply...can not see anything thru the network browser. How do it fix it? Is this just a setting problem? Any hints...please help. From allan at dsol.co.uk Fri Nov 3 02:35:27 2006 From: allan at dsol.co.uk (Allan) Date: Fri Nov 3 02:35:39 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Network Problem In-Reply-To: References: <20061103011608.9134B37DDCA@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <0EE5A0E1-5851-408D-B96F-CD0FE859271D@dsol.co.uk> On 3 Nov 2006, at 09:17, John Guzman wrote: > We recently changed (Win 2003 servers)servers at our office,and > now the new server and others computer in the network can not be > seen by my Macs(4 G5s).I can ping all of them,but simply...can not > see anything thru the network browser. > > How do it fix it? > > Is this just a setting problem? > there should be some guidelines here: http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/network/ Allan Johns From mark at astroprinting.com Fri Nov 3 10:31:48 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Fri Nov 3 10:37:04 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Need to create vertical videos with text Message-ID: <9A6757F3-2A44-4A0D-B0D0-04D4A020719D@astroprinting.com> Hello everyone, I'm new to the list, heck, I'm new to digital video as well so you'll have to pardon my naivety. My manager has purchased a 37 inch LTC TV that he wants to mount in our front lobby so that we can play a looped video promoting our various services and specials. He would like to see a combination of video and still images with text flashing in and out of the picture, you know, all that fun stuff. The task of creating said video has fallen on me. Now since video creating/editing is not really a business we want to get into we would prefer not have to spend a fortune on software. Not to worry, My Mac has lovely little programs on it called iMovie and iDVD which under normal circumstances would be perfect for what I need. Notice the mention of "normal circumstances". Here's the catch, the 37 inch TV will be mounted sideways so that it becomes a tall screen (9:16) instead of a wide screen (16:9). That's my problem. Filming the video sideways isn't a problem, neither is rotating still images in Photoshop. I can combine both of them in iMovie and then rotate the completed movie in Quicktime to give me a tall video. My problem is with text. As far as I can tell iMovie will only allow me to type text horizontally (which would normally be what you'd want) but if I then turn my video sideways the text would be sideways as well, see my problem? What options do I have without having to spend thousands of dollars. Would Final Cut Express or Adobe Premier Elements allow me to do what I want? Any other suggestions? Thanks Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com From videovideo at mac.com Fri Nov 3 10:44:30 2006 From: videovideo at mac.com (sb) Date: Fri Nov 3 10:44:51 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Need to create vertical videos with text In-Reply-To: <9A6757F3-2A44-4A0D-B0D0-04D4A020719D@astroprinting.com> Message-ID: http://www.abtelectronics.com/about/gallery_attractions.php3 "plasma windmills" Finish the movie, rotate in QT, re-import into iMovie, add titles/text, re-export. FCE will do this all very easily (cropping the image, adding really good looking titles via Boris Title3D, rotating images, etc) regards, sb On 11/3/06 10:31 AM, "Mark Des Cotes" wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm new to the list, heck, I'm new to digital video as well so you'll > have to pardon my naivety. My manager has purchased a 37 inch LTC TV > that he wants to mount in our front lobby so that we can play a > looped video promoting our various services and specials. He would > like to see a combination of video and still images with text > flashing in and out of the picture, you know, all that fun stuff. > The task of creating said video has fallen on me. Now since video > creating/editing is not really a business we want to get into we > would prefer not have to spend a fortune on software. Not to worry, > My Mac has lovely little programs on it called iMovie and iDVD which > under normal circumstances would be perfect for what I need. Notice > the mention of "normal circumstances". Here's the catch, the 37 inch > TV will be mounted sideways so that it becomes a tall screen (9:16) > instead of a wide screen (16:9). That's my problem. Filming the video > sideways isn't a problem, neither is rotating still images in > Photoshop. I can combine both of them in iMovie and then rotate the > completed movie in Quicktime to give me a tall video. My problem is > with text. As far as I can tell iMovie will only allow me to type > text horizontally (which would normally be what you'd want) but if I > then turn my video sideways the text would be sideways as well, see > my problem? What options do I have without having to spend thousands > of dollars. Would Final Cut Express or Adobe Premier Elements allow > me to do what I want? Any other suggestions? > > Thanks > > Mark Des Cotes > Systems Manager/Graphic Designer > > Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. > 3308 Second Street East > Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 > T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 > www.astroprinting.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From rgilmor at uwo.ca Fri Nov 3 10:54:21 2006 From: rgilmor at uwo.ca (Richard Gilmore) Date: Fri Nov 3 10:53:24 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Network Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We use Win2003 server also. Make sure the file sharing is on on the Macs in question. Obvious but worth checking. If you use the afp address it tells you it should work On 3/11/06 4:17 AM, "John Guzman" wrote: > We recently changed (Win 2003 servers)servers at our > office,and now the new server and others computer in the network can > not be seen by my Macs(4 G5s).I can ping all of them,but simply...can > not see anything thru the network browser. > > How do it fix it? > > Is this just a setting problem? > > > Any hints...please help. > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From mark at astroprinting.com Fri Nov 3 10:50:46 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Fri Nov 3 10:56:02 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Need to create vertical videos with text In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C690355-24B3-4657-A140-D483C595A868@astroprinting.com> All I get is a "server not responding" message when I click on "plasma windmills" I had thought of rotating my movie in QT then re-importing it back into iMovie but when I tried it my now 3:4 movie gets stretched to fit a 4:3 window, completely distorting it. (I haven't purchased iMovie HD yet to try 9:16) Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com On 3-Nov-06, at 1:44 PM, sb wrote: > http://www.abtelectronics.com/about/gallery_attractions.php3 > "plasma windmills" > > Finish the movie, rotate in QT, re-import into iMovie, add titles/ > text, > re-export. > > FCE will do this all very easily (cropping the image, adding really > good > looking titles via Boris Title3D, rotating images, etc) > > regards, > > sb > > > > > On 11/3/06 10:31 AM, "Mark Des Cotes" wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm new to the list, heck, I'm new to digital video as well so you'll >> have to pardon my naivety. My manager has purchased a 37 inch LTC TV >> that he wants to mount in our front lobby so that we can play a >> looped video promoting our various services and specials. He would >> like to see a combination of video and still images with text >> flashing in and out of the picture, you know, all that fun stuff. >> The task of creating said video has fallen on me. Now since video >> creating/editing is not really a business we want to get into we >> would prefer not have to spend a fortune on software. Not to worry, >> My Mac has lovely little programs on it called iMovie and iDVD which >> under normal circumstances would be perfect for what I need. Notice >> the mention of "normal circumstances". Here's the catch, the 37 inch >> TV will be mounted sideways so that it becomes a tall screen (9:16) >> instead of a wide screen (16:9). That's my problem. Filming the video >> sideways isn't a problem, neither is rotating still images in >> Photoshop. I can combine both of them in iMovie and then rotate the >> completed movie in Quicktime to give me a tall video. My problem is >> with text. As far as I can tell iMovie will only allow me to type >> text horizontally (which would normally be what you'd want) but if I >> then turn my video sideways the text would be sideways as well, see >> my problem? What options do I have without having to spend thousands >> of dollars. Would Final Cut Express or Adobe Premier Elements allow >> me to do what I want? Any other suggestions? >> >> Thanks >> >> Mark Des Cotes >> Systems Manager/Graphic Designer >> >> Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. >> 3308 Second Street East >> Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 >> T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 >> www.astroprinting.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacDV mailing list >> MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From radbourne7144 at rogers.com Fri Nov 3 14:04:42 2006 From: radbourne7144 at rogers.com (Brent Radbourne) Date: Fri Nov 3 14:04:50 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Need to create vertical videos with text In-Reply-To: <4C690355-24B3-4657-A140-D483C595A868@astroprinting.com> References: <4C690355-24B3-4657-A140-D483C595A868@astroprinting.com> Message-ID: <6600b3dafd1d58f9ca11451d1e8d2359@rogers.com> At this url http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/turnclip.html you can download for free a plugin for imovie that will rotate your clip 90 or 180 degrees. On 3-Nov-06, at 1:50 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > All I get is a "server not responding" message when I click on "plasma > windmills" > > I had thought of rotating my movie in QT then re-importing it back > into iMovie but when I tried it my now 3:4 movie gets stretched to fit > a 4:3 window, completely distorting it. (I haven't purchased iMovie HD > yet to try 9:16) > > Mark Des Cotes > Systems Manager/Graphic Designer > > Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. > 3308 Second Street East > Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 > T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 > www.astroprinting.com > > > > > On 3-Nov-06, at 1:44 PM, sb wrote: > >> http://www.abtelectronics.com/about/gallery_attractions.php3 >> "plasma windmills" >> >> Finish the movie, rotate in QT, re-import into iMovie, add >> titles/text, >> re-export. >> >> FCE will do this all very easily (cropping the image, adding really >> good >> looking titles via Boris Title3D, rotating images, etc) >> >> regards, >> >> sb >> >> >> >> >> On 11/3/06 10:31 AM, "Mark Des Cotes" wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I'm new to the list, heck, I'm new to digital video as well so you'll >>> have to pardon my naivety. My manager has purchased a 37 inch LTC TV >>> that he wants to mount in our front lobby so that we can play a >>> looped video promoting our various services and specials. He would >>> like to see a combination of video and still images with text >>> flashing in and out of the picture, you know, all that fun stuff. >>> The task of creating said video has fallen on me. Now since video >>> creating/editing is not really a business we want to get into we >>> would prefer not have to spend a fortune on software. Not to worry, >>> My Mac has lovely little programs on it called iMovie and iDVD which >>> under normal circumstances would be perfect for what I need. Notice >>> the mention of "normal circumstances". Here's the catch, the 37 inch >>> TV will be mounted sideways so that it becomes a tall screen (9:16) >>> instead of a wide screen (16:9). That's my problem. Filming the video >>> sideways isn't a problem, neither is rotating still images in >>> Photoshop. I can combine both of them in iMovie and then rotate the >>> completed movie in Quicktime to give me a tall video. My problem is >>> with text. As far as I can tell iMovie will only allow me to type >>> text horizontally (which would normally be what you'd want) but if I >>> then turn my video sideways the text would be sideways as well, see >>> my problem? What options do I have without having to spend thousands >>> of dollars. Would Final Cut Express or Adobe Premier Elements allow >>> me to do what I want? Any other suggestions? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Mark Des Cotes >>> Systems Manager/Graphic Designer >>> >>> Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. >>> 3308 Second Street East >>> Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 >>> T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 >>> www.astroprinting.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacDV mailing list >>> MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >>> >>> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >>> stuff: >>> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacDV mailing list >> MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > From derek at unm.edu Fri Nov 3 17:05:03 2006 From: derek at unm.edu (Derek Roff) Date: Fri Nov 3 17:05:07 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Need to create vertical videos with text Message-ID: <2759AFA3C8CC536EB0EF1F93@llcs-ibook-g4.local> > At this url http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/turnclip.html you > can download for free a plugin for imovie that will rotate your clip 90 > or 180 degrees. If I understand correctly, the video does not need to be rotated. Rotating it to add the titles and then rotating it back has several potential problems. It might degrade video image quality (depending on how the chosen rotation software handles the mismatch in aspect ratio). It may make it difficult to judge the placement of the text, since during the title adding process, the rotated video image may be stretched, cropped, or severely shrunk with black bars on two edges. iMovie titles don't look that great anyway, and it may be that they will degrade unacceptably when applied and then rotated. Another reason I don't like this approach, is that the iMovie titles couldn't be updated or re-edited, without going through at least part of the rotation/re-rotation cycle again. I wouldn't want to do that for every typo fix and date change. The answer, as the original poster suggested, is to leave the video alone, and to apply the titles in rotated position. We can do that in iMovie via plugins. There are several companies who make great plugins for iMovie, at fairly reasonable prices. Gee Three is one company that offers many choices. Bruce Gee is very responsive, and can help you make the best choice from among his products. I suspect it would be Gee Three's Slick Volume 9 pack of plugins, which offers a PDF title option and Place Text II, among other things. You can create your titles in a PDF file, using Microsoft Word, or other programs. In creating the PDF, you can rotate the text for your titles however you desire, and have greater control over font choice, size and color than is available in plain iMovie titles. You will face the problem that you won't see the video behind the title, as you are creating your title in Word. However, after setting my margins properly, I didn't have too much problem getting the titles where I wanted them, using the PDF plugin. Perhaps others on the list can suggest good title plugins from other companies, to solve this problem. Derek Derek Roff Language Learning Center Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 Internet: derek@unm.edu From macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm Sat Nov 4 01:16:24 2006 From: macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm (Aaron) Date: Sat Nov 4 01:16:50 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Disk image In-Reply-To: <86DC588C-C5F5-425B-B1E6-50949D10FCFC@mac.com> References: <912391DB-8288-41C2-8295-F7D2368E6145@shaw.ca> <86DC588C-C5F5-425B-B1E6-50949D10FCFC@mac.com> Message-ID: <20061104091644.2D76C38908A@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> You might also try DVD Imager. It makes it a bit more straightforward to create an image in the proper format for a video DVD. You can find DVD imager at , or do a google search. - Aaron >From: Michael Winter >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:14:02 -0600 > >Gordon explained a good way to do it. I just wanted to add if you >have a copy of Toast around, using its copy feature is pretty easy >too. If not, follow Gordon's directions. > >-Mike >Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:03:29 -0700 >From: Robert Green > >I am running OS 10.4.7. I made a movie in imovie and burned it to a >dvd with idvd. This disk works fine when played on the computer or >dvd player. I no longer have the original movie and want to make a >copy. I tried disk utility which made a disk image. First it creates >a download manager folder which when opened should give me the movie >but all I see are the Video ts and audio ts folders. What am I doing >wrong. From macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm Sat Nov 4 02:01:39 2006 From: macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm (Aaron) Date: Sat Nov 4 02:02:17 2006 Subject: [MacDV] how many hours (QT) will fit on 500GB drive? In-Reply-To: <6872F30B-772F-4A64-B9D8-B9E632ED91C7@cbc.ca> References: <6872F30B-772F-4A64-B9D8-B9E632ED91C7@cbc.ca> Message-ID: <20061104100210.7681D389433@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> I know this is a bit late, but I'll inject some thoughts anyway. The first thing to consider is that QuickTime can do compression using a number of codecs and, for each codec, at a wide range of bit rates. The number of variables that can be adjusted for each codec can be mind-boggling. But I'd say that you could get decent quality using as little as 300 MB per hour of video using H.264 compression. However, if you're trying to get both good quality and high compression, the process will be, even with the fastest dual G4, several times slower than real time. (In other words, it will take several minutes to compress each minute of video.) If you do want to save the video in compressed form, and you'll need to do that unless you have the money and storage space for 13 GB of hard disk storage per hour of video, you may be better off using a hardware digitizer that compresses while it digitizes, rather than a Media Converter that produces uncompressed DV output. I can't claim any specific knowledge about such digitizers, but perhaps others on this list may have useful information. I'd be interested in knowing about them myself. - Aaron >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:04:57 -0700 >From: sb >Subject: [MacDV] Re: how many hours (QT) will fit on 500GB drive? > >A media converter uses DV codec. DV uses 3.6mg/sec, which is about 13GB/hour > >Since you are starting with pretty high quality, you could take the DV video >files and then compress to a different codec, like iPod video, H.264 which >will hold much much more. HandBrake is good for that process. > > regards, > > sb > >On 10/23/06 12:58 PM, "Malcolm Hamilton" wrote: > >> Hi there, >> I'm wanting to copy 20 seasons-worth of the tv show I work for, onto >> an external fw hard drive. >> I'm playing the original half-hour Sony SP and SX show tapes, through > > a Media Converter (firewire out) into my G4, via QuickTime, and onto >> a 500GB external drive. >> Can anyone tell me how many hours this drive will hold, with whatever >> compression QT uses? >> >> Thanks, >> mhcbc From mark at astroprinting.com Mon Nov 6 06:30:08 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Mon Nov 6 06:35:13 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Need to create vertical videos with text In-Reply-To: <2759AFA3C8CC536EB0EF1F93@llcs-ibook-g4.local> References: <2759AFA3C8CC536EB0EF1F93@llcs-ibook-g4.local> Message-ID: <16D4B718-EED5-49B4-B66D-6B707FCC499B@astroprinting.com> Derek, Thanks, your suggestion looks very promising, I hadn't thought about looking into plugins. I'll wait until it's a decent hour on the west coast before calling Gee Three and asking their recommendation. In the mean time does anyone know of any other iMovie plugin companies that would allow me to add text vertically (rotated 90 degrees) to an iMovie video? Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com On 3-Nov-06, at 8:05 PM, Derek Roff wrote: >> At this url http://www.imovieplugins.com/plugs/turnclip.html you >> can download for free a plugin for imovie that will rotate your >> clip 90 >> or 180 degrees. > > If I understand correctly, the video does not need to be rotated. > Rotating it to add the titles and then rotating it back has several > potential problems. It might degrade video image quality > (depending on how the chosen rotation software handles the mismatch > in aspect ratio). It may make it difficult to judge the placement > of the text, since during the title adding process, the rotated > video image may be stretched, cropped, or severely shrunk with > black bars on two edges. iMovie titles don't look that great > anyway, and it may be that they will degrade unacceptably when > applied and then rotated. > > Another reason I don't like this approach, is that the iMovie > titles couldn't be updated or re-edited, without going through at > least part of the rotation/re-rotation cycle again. I wouldn't > want to do that for every typo fix and date change. > > The answer, as the original poster suggested, is to leave the video > alone, and to apply the titles in rotated position. We can do that > in iMovie via plugins. There are several companies who make great > plugins for iMovie, at fairly reasonable prices. Gee Three www.geethree.com/> is one company that offers many choices. Bruce > Gee is very responsive, and can help you make the best choice from > among his products. > > I suspect it would be Gee Three's Slick Volume 9 pack of plugins, > which offers a PDF title option and Place Text II, among other > things. You can create your titles in a PDF file, using Microsoft > Word, or other programs. In creating the PDF, you can rotate the > text for your titles however you desire, and have greater control > over font choice, size and color than is available in plain iMovie > titles. You will face the problem that you won't see the video > behind the title, as you are creating your title in Word. However, > after setting my margins properly, I didn't have too much problem > getting the titles where I wanted them, using the PDF plugin. > > Perhaps others on the list can suggest good title plugins from > other companies, to solve this problem. > > Derek > > Derek Roff > Language Learning Center > Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 > University of New Mexico > Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 > 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 > Internet: derek@unm.edu > From mark at astroprinting.com Mon Nov 6 06:38:47 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Mon Nov 6 06:43:48 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV? Message-ID: <4C960E53-C2DF-412F-B3E1-2AFAA6C8386C@astroprinting.com> Hi again, As I mentioned in my earlier posts I'm new to DV creation. I've been a graphic designer for over 15 years but I've mostly been designing for print. The first video I'm creating will consist of mostly still images created in Photoshop that I will pan across and zoom in and out of. I will be burning the video to DVD and it will be viewed on a 37" 9:16 LCD TV. How do I figure out what size and resolution to create my Photoshop documents? Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com From rgb at ellerbach.com Mon Nov 6 07:25:41 2006 From: rgb at ellerbach.com (rgb@ellerbach.com) Date: Mon Nov 6 07:26:34 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV? In-Reply-To: <4C960E53-C2DF-412F-B3E1-2AFAA6C8386C@astroprinting.com> References: <4C960E53-C2DF-412F-B3E1-2AFAA6C8386C@astroprinting.com> Message-ID: <46127.155.91.45.231.1162826741.squirrel@ellerbach.com> On Mon, November 6, 2006 9:38 am, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Hi again, > > As I mentioned in my earlier posts I'm new to DV creation. I've been > a graphic designer for over 15 years but I've mostly been designing > for print. The first video I'm creating will consist of mostly still > images created in Photoshop that I will pan across and zoom in and > out of. I will be burning the video to DVD and it will be viewed on a > 37" 9:16 LCD TV. How do I figure out what size and resolution to > create my Photoshop documents? Resolution is an irrelevant concept for video work (or any non-hardcopy output). The only thing that matters is the number of pixels in width and height. The easiest thing to do is to find what the smallest part of one of your images that you'll want to see full screen and that'll dictate how many pixels you'll need for that portion. Then simply use that to figure out how big the original needs to be to have that many pixels in the sub-picture. Make all of your originals that size and then use something like PhotoToMovie to do your panning and zooming and the rest should be taken care of for you. Rich From mark at astroprinting.com Mon Nov 6 07:49:54 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Mon Nov 6 07:55:32 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV? In-Reply-To: <46127.155.91.45.231.1162826741.squirrel@ellerbach.com> References: <4C960E53-C2DF-412F-B3E1-2AFAA6C8386C@astroprinting.com> <46127.155.91.45.231.1162826741.squirrel@ellerbach.com> Message-ID: Rich, I think you've lost me. If I'm understanding you correctly, and it's possible I'm not, you're saying I should figure out what part of my image I want to zoom into first. Then I set that part, when at maximum zoom, to the proper pixel count. From there I calculate how many pixels my un-zoomed image has to be? I still don't know how many pixels my image should be, zoomed or not. What is PhotoToMovie? is it a plugin for some app or is it a standalone application? Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com On 6-Nov-06, at 10:25 AM, rgb@ellerbach.com wrote: > The easiest thing to do is to find what the smallest part of one of > your > images that you'll want to see full screen and that'll dictate how > many > pixels you'll need for that portion. Then simply use that to figure > out > how big the original needs to be to have that many pixels in the > sub-picture. Make all of your originals that size and then use > something > like PhotoToMovie to do your panning and zooming and the rest > should be > taken care of for you. > > Rich From rgb at ellerbach.com Mon Nov 6 08:27:36 2006 From: rgb at ellerbach.com (rgb@ellerbach.com) Date: Mon Nov 6 08:28:30 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV? In-Reply-To: References: <4C960E53-C2DF-412F-B3E1-2AFAA6C8386C@astroprinting.com> <46127.155.91.45.231.1162826741.squirrel@ellerbach.com> Message-ID: <28681.155.91.45.231.1162830456.squirrel@ellerbach.com> On Mon, November 6, 2006 10:49 am, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Rich, > > I think you've lost me. If I'm understanding you correctly, and it's > possible I'm not, you're saying I should figure out what part of my > image I want to zoom into first. Then I set that part, when at > maximum zoom, to the proper pixel count. From there I calculate how > many pixels my un-zoomed image has to be? I still don't know how many > pixels my image should be, zoomed or not. Yep you are understanding me correctly. For standard DV images you want 720 pixels wide and then whatever you need for either the 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio (540 or 405). But that's "in theory". If you save a from from iMovie you actually get an image at 720x528 so the height observed is actually a bit less. Playing around with heights in that range whould give you what you want though. Don't forget to consider the TV overscan area though. You don't want to put anything important too close to the edge of the image as it may get cutoff on the actual display. > > What is PhotoToMovie? is it a plugin for some app or is it a > standalone application? It is a standalone app that does some very nice panning and zooming. Have a look at www.lqgraphics.com. A similar program is StillLife. Rich From drcohen at mac.com Mon Nov 6 08:49:20 2006 From: drcohen at mac.com (Dennis R. Cohen) Date: Mon Nov 6 08:49:30 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Photoshop resolution for DV? In-Reply-To: <20061106162833.B84BF3A1151@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On 11/6/06 at 9:38 AM, Mark Des Cotes transmitted the following electronic message: > >Hi again, > >As I mentioned in my earlier posts I'm new to DV creation. I've been >a graphic designer for over 15 years but I've mostly been designing >for print. The first video I'm creating will consist of mostly still >images created in Photoshop that I will pan across and zoom in and >out of. I will be burning the video to DVD and it will be viewed on a >37" 9:16 LCD TV. How do I figure out what size and resolution to >create my Photoshop documents? > The gating factor in your question is the delivery medium, i.e. the fact that you'll be burning a DVD to be played on a TV (regardless of what kind/size TV). DVD (NTSC) is 720x480 resolution, but the pixels aren't square. Fortunately, Photoshop provides the document size you'll want from its standard presets: NTSC DV Widescreen, 720x480. I pointed to the Widescreen variant because you said that the target was a 16:9 TV, so you'll get widescreen display without letterboxing. The resolution should be 72 (but the preset will take care of that for you). Note: The fact that it is going to an NTSC color model will "muddy" some of the colors from what you perceive in actual photographs. -- Dennis Cohen From derek at unm.edu Mon Nov 6 09:59:39 2006 From: derek at unm.edu (Derek Roff) Date: Mon Nov 6 09:59:46 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Photoshop resolution for DV? Message-ID: <4C61F67CDB172459A4307CBD@llcs-ibook-g4.local> > The first video I'm creating will consist of mostly still > images created in Photoshop that I will pan across and zoom in and > out of. I will be burning the video to DVD and it will be viewed on a > 37" 9:16 LCD TV. How do I figure out what size and resolution to > create my Photoshop documents? Terminology can get confusing. Image size, in terms of inches, dots per inch, or pixels per inch, does not apply to video. Resolution (in pixels) of the displayed video image will be fixed, and at a fairly miserable level, by the output device, namely your 37" 9:16 LCD TV. This pixel resolution is what you want to work with. This is probably a "high definition" TV, but in this marketing-driven world, you can find very different specs and resolutions on TVs sold as HD. I would start the search for the pixel count by looking in the manual for your TV. Somewhere, it should tell you the maximum resolution/pixel count that the TV can handle, and the settings needed to display that resolution. We would hope that your TV would be able to handle 1080p, meaning a frame resolution of 1920 ? 1080 or just over 2 megapixels. That's about the best resolution/HD format available for current home or broadcast HDTV. >From the display pixel count, you can begin to calculate the size (in pixels) of your images. As another poster mentioned, you don't want to zoom in on a photo to a resolution where the software has to start creating or interpolating pixels. Make sure that at the maximum zoomed moment of display, the zoomed/cropped part of the photo will have 1920x1080 pixels to work with for display on the screen. Then work backwards through your panning and zooming intentions, to figure the total pixel resolution needed for each image that you plan to use. For example, if you planned to zoom in on a portion of a photo that was half the length and half the height of the entire photo, then your starting resolution would need to have twice as many pixels in height and in length (four times the total pixel count). 1920 times 2 = 3840, 1080 times 2 = 2160, so for this hypothetical zoom, start with an image of at least 3840 x 2160. If the planned panning and zooming for each different image vary a lot, you may need to start with different pixel counts for each image. If they are mostly similar, you could prepare all your images for the worst case/maximum zoom. Since you are comfortable in PhotoShop (I am not), I wonder if producing your titles within that program would be effective. This would get around the rotated text problem for those elements that begin as photos or graphics. It doesn't help with any titles that you need to place on the video shot as video. Unless you have a true HD video camera, then the resolution of the video shot with your camcorder will be significantly less than the resolution of your still photos and graphics. You will have to handle the difference in resolution between the video and the stills at some stage. I've never tried mixing standard definition and high definition in the same iMovie. Perhaps you should convert all the video to HD first. Perhaps you should do the graphics and stills in standard definition video resolution, and create your iMovie as a standard definition 16:9 movie. Then display that image on your LCD TV, letting the TV up-convert the image as best it can. Others on this list might have suggestions for that part of the strategy. Derek Derek Roff Language Learning Center Ortega Hall 129, MSC03-2100 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 505/277-7368, fax 505/277-3885 Internet: derek@unm.edu From ross at dmrmail.com Tue Nov 7 06:37:30 2006 From: ross at dmrmail.com (Dominion Market Research) Date: Tue Nov 7 06:37:54 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV? In-Reply-To: References: <4C960E53-C2DF-412F-B3E1-2AFAA6C8386C@astroprinting.com> <46127.155.91.45.231.1162826741.squirrel@ellerbach.com> Message-ID: Mark, PhotoToMovie is a stand alone program. You can download a free trial from their site. I've used PTM for some past productions and found it fairly easy to use. On a new project I'm going to want to add motion to some stills and have been learning how to do that within Final Cut Express. While it's not as easy as PTM or iMovie, it is possible and you don't have to export the PTM file and import to FCE. Author Tom Wolsky has a short tutorial on his web site. Thus far I've found PTM easier to use if I want to add complex movement or want to use multiple images. Simple motion is fairly straight forward in FCE. The tutorial deals with multiple images, but I haven't tried that yet. Ross Hunter Orange, VA >Rich, > >I think you've lost me. If I'm understanding you correctly, and it's >possible I'm not, you're saying I should figure out what part of my >image I want to zoom into first. Then I set that part, when at >maximum zoom, to the proper pixel count. From there I calculate how >many pixels my un-zoomed image has to be? I still don't know how >many pixels my image should be, zoomed or not. > >What is PhotoToMovie? is it a plugin for some app or is it a >standalone application? > >Mark Des Cotes >Systems Manager/Graphic Designer > >Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. >3308 Second Street East >Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 >T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 >www.astroprinting.com > > > > >On 6-Nov-06, at 10:25 AM, rgb@ellerbach.com wrote: > >>The easiest thing to do is to find what the smallest part of one of your >>images that you'll want to see full screen and that'll dictate how many >>pixels you'll need for that portion. Then simply use that to figure out >>how big the original needs to be to have that many pixels in the >>sub-picture. Make all of your originals that size and then use something >>like PhotoToMovie to do your panning and zooming and the rest should be >>taken care of for you. >> >>Rich -- Dominion Market Research-mailing services for Central Virginia 309 Madison Road PO Box 791 Orange VA 22960-0464 USA 1-540-672-2327 1-800-328-2588 fax: 1-540-672-0296 http://www.dmrmail.com _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ From cfreeman at liberty.edu Tue Nov 7 16:51:17 2006 From: cfreeman at liberty.edu (Colt Freeman) Date: Tue Nov 7 16:51:35 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Photoshop resolution for DV? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Actually guys if you have motion, it's a heck of a lot easier to do the keyframing within motion than it is in FCP. Also you have access to many more features. Regards, -Colt Freeman www.coltfreeman.com Contagious Ideal Productions Liberty: University Relations Campus Photographer Champion Photography Editor (919) 441-6401 On 11/7/06 9:37 AM, "Dominion Market Research" wrote: > Mark, > > PhotoToMovie is a stand alone program. > You can download a free trial from their site. I've used PTM for some > past productions and found it fairly easy to use. > > On a new project I'm going to want to add motion to some stills and > have been learning how to do that within Final Cut Express. While > it's not as easy as PTM or iMovie, it is possible and you don't have > to export the PTM file and import to FCE. Author Tom Wolsky has a > short tutorial on his web site. > > > Thus far I've found PTM easier to use if I want to add complex > movement or want to use multiple images. Simple motion is fairly > straight forward in FCE. The tutorial deals with multiple images, but > I haven't tried that yet. > > Ross Hunter > Orange, VA > >> Rich, >> >> I think you've lost me. If I'm understanding you correctly, and it's >> possible I'm not, you're saying I should figure out what part of my >> image I want to zoom into first. Then I set that part, when at >> maximum zoom, to the proper pixel count. From there I calculate how >> many pixels my un-zoomed image has to be? I still don't know how >> many pixels my image should be, zoomed or not. >> >> What is PhotoToMovie? is it a plugin for some app or is it a >> standalone application? >> >> Mark Des Cotes >> Systems Manager/Graphic Designer >> >> Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. >> 3308 Second Street East >> Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 >> T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 >> www.astroprinting.com >> >> >> >> >> On 6-Nov-06, at 10:25 AM, rgb@ellerbach.com wrote: >> >>> The easiest thing to do is to find what the smallest part of one of your >>> images that you'll want to see full screen and that'll dictate how many >>> pixels you'll need for that portion. Then simply use that to figure out >>> how big the original needs to be to have that many pixels in the >>> sub-picture. Make all of your originals that size and then use something >>> like PhotoToMovie to do your panning and zooming and the rest should be >>> taken care of for you. >>> >>> Rich From greenrw at shaw.ca Tue Nov 7 19:18:48 2006 From: greenrw at shaw.ca (Robert Green) Date: Tue Nov 7 19:19:46 2006 Subject: [MacDV] converting .mov to.wmv Message-ID: I have a video file created with a still camera in a mov file format. I want to play the file in powerpoint presentation on a windows machine at work. I have tried to convert it by importing it into my mac at home in imovie and then sharing as wmv. It does the conversion but it won't do the complete file. The 15 second video becomes about 6 seconds. I have tried adjusting the quality in settings but it has made no difference. Any ideas why the complete file does not convert or is there some shareware that will do the job? From hahndl at shaw.ca Tue Nov 7 19:46:22 2006 From: hahndl at shaw.ca (Darrell Hahn) Date: Tue Nov 7 19:47:42 2006 Subject: [MacDV] converting .mov to.wmv In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <55E21061-7ADF-4539-9CDC-2A36AB2741A4@shaw.ca> On 7-Nov-06, at 9:18 PM, Robert Green wrote: > I have a video file created with a still camera in a mov file > format. I want to play the file in powerpoint presentation on a > windows machine at work. I have tried to convert it by importing it > into my mac at home in imovie and then sharing as wmv. It does the > conversion but it won't do the complete file. The 15 second video > becomes about 6 seconds. I have tried adjusting the quality in > settings but it has made no difference. Any ideas why the complete > file does not convert or is there some shareware that will do the > job? Why don't you just use the .mov file in Powerpoint...Windows does Quicktime. -D. Coram Deo ? Before the face of God ? Living life in the presence of God, under His authority, and for His honor and glory. http://www.fcchurch.ca From mark at astroprinting.com Wed Nov 8 08:18:21 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Wed Nov 8 08:24:07 2006 Subject: [MacDV] How much HD space do I need? Message-ID: <975530CF-5983-4F9B-97F4-918C437E2EB8@astroprinting.com> After all your help and all my research into producing vertical movies in iMovie, my boss decided to go the extra step and gave me the go ahead to purchase Final Cut Express HD. Now, I'm going to be producing 2 - 3 minute long commercials. For now they will be composed of still photos a la Ken Burns Effect with titles flying around over the images. Down the road I'll probable incorporate video as well. How much HD space should I have available for this? I have about 25GB free before I install FCE. I also have an external 80GB USB1 drive but I find it slow. I'm thinking I should maybe get a good size Firewire drive. But I have no idea what to look for. Suggestions? Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com From videovideo at mac.com Wed Nov 8 08:51:17 2006 From: videovideo at mac.com (sb) Date: Wed Nov 8 08:51:28 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: How much HD space do I need? In-Reply-To: <975530CF-5983-4F9B-97F4-918C437E2EB8@astroprinting.com> Message-ID: All dv video uses 3.6mb/second or about 12-13gb per hour of video. You'll need 15gb for the FCE install. You're USB external hard drive is not approved for use with FCE, so you might want to include a Firewire external. I would really recommend getting Tom Wolsky's Final Cut Express book or his training DVD. Also, the apple final cut express discussion forum is the best place to look for helpful information. regards, sb On 11/8/06 8:18 AM, "Mark Des Cotes" wrote: > After all your help and all my research into producing vertical > movies in iMovie, my boss decided to go the extra step and gave me > the go ahead to purchase Final Cut Express HD. > > Now, I'm going to be producing 2 - 3 minute long commercials. For now > they will be composed of still photos a la Ken Burns Effect with > titles flying around over the images. Down the road I'll probable > incorporate video as well. How much HD space should I have available > for this? I have about 25GB free before I install FCE. I also have an > external 80GB USB1 drive but I find it slow. I'm thinking I should > maybe get a good size Firewire drive. But I have no idea what to look > for. Suggestions? > > Mark Des Cotes > Systems Manager/Graphic Designer > > Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. > 3308 Second Street East > Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 > T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 > www.astroprinting.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From cmmcdonald at mac.com Wed Nov 8 13:42:07 2006 From: cmmcdonald at mac.com (CM McDonald) Date: Wed Nov 8 13:42:20 2006 Subject: [MacDV] converting .mov to.wmv In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <83be2fc01f3f2e9120212014a3599925@mac.com> On 8 Nov 2006, at 03:18, Robert Green wrote: > I have a video file created with a still camera in a mov file format. > I want to play the file in powerpoint presentation on a windows > machine at work. I have tried to convert it by importing it into my > mac at home in imovie and then sharing as wmv. It does the conversion > but it won't do the complete file. The 15 second video becomes about > 6 seconds. I have tried adjusting the quality in settings but it has > made no difference. Any ideas why the complete file does not convert > or is there some shareware that will do the job? Sounds like you might be using the free version of FlipForMac which is now offered instead of WMP for Mac. This lets you convert half a video as a demo. You have to pay to enable full functionality. As the man says, just use QuickTime for Windows. olin McDonald From mauricemilligan at mac.com Wed Nov 8 13:59:54 2006 From: mauricemilligan at mac.com (Maurice Milligan) Date: Wed Nov 8 14:00:08 2006 Subject: [MacDV] converting .mov to.wmv In-Reply-To: <83be2fc01f3f2e9120212014a3599925@mac.com> References: <83be2fc01f3f2e9120212014a3599925@mac.com> Message-ID: <2E8B99A0-6FB4-4D25-8421-DE843CD49333@mac.com> Robert, Use Quicktime for Windows as best option. Flip4Mac is a good converter and if you need WMV files it is pretty intuitive. You could also try the following, if Flip4Mac still does half the conversion as a demo - import the movie to iMovie twice, one after the other so that the movie is twice as long with some black screen between each version. Then when you convert to WMV you get half the half you need converted. It's worth a go once to get you on track but the software is worth the fee if you have to do this any time again. I bought to convert one short 5 minute video for a client and he was pleased to pay - he felt it a minimal overhead for a necessary evil! Maurice Milligan On 8 Nov 2006, at 21:42, CM McDonald wrote: > > On 8 Nov 2006, at 03:18, Robert Green wrote: > >> I have a video file created with a still camera in a mov file >> format. I want to play the file in powerpoint presentation on a >> windows machine at work. I have tried to convert it by importing >> it into my mac at home in imovie and then sharing as wmv. It does >> the conversion but it won't do the complete file. The 15 second >> video becomes about 6 seconds. I have tried adjusting the quality >> in settings but it has made no difference. Any ideas why the >> complete file does not convert or is there some shareware that >> will do the job? > > Sounds like you might be using the free version of FlipForMac which > is now offered instead of WMP for Mac. This lets you convert half a > video as a demo. You have to pay to enable full functionality. > > pid=windowsmedia> > > As the man says, just use QuickTime for Windows. > > olin McDonald > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From npoese at earthlink.net Thu Nov 9 03:17:19 2006 From: npoese at earthlink.net (Neil Poese) Date: Thu Nov 9 03:17:22 2006 Subject: [MacDV] How much HD space do I need? Message-ID: <2258233.1163071040012.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Yup, you've got to get an external FW drive. 250 gigs is a good start since storage is so cheap now. You'll find a lot of discussion on the various brands of drives, and after having owned dozens of drives that I've used in school video labs, right now I'm happiest with the new drives that Promax carries. They've been around since the beginning of DV and generally carry the best stuff. I always prefer a drive with a fan to one without. Your Mac does have enough RAM, doesn't it? Neil -----Original Message----- >From: Mark Des Cotes >Sent: Nov 8, 2006 9:18 AM >To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh." >Subject: [MacDV] How much HD space do I need? > >After all your help and all my research into producing vertical >movies in iMovie, my boss decided to go the extra step and gave me >the go ahead to purchase Final Cut Express HD. > >Now, I'm going to be producing 2 - 3 minute long commercials. For now >they will be composed of still photos a la Ken Burns Effect with >titles flying around over the images. Down the road I'll probable >incorporate video as well. How much HD space should I have available >for this? I have about 25GB free before I install FCE. I also have an >external 80GB USB1 drive but I find it slow. I'm thinking I should >maybe get a good size Firewire drive. But I have no idea what to look >for. Suggestions? > >Mark Des Cotes >Systems Manager/Graphic Designer > >Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. >3308 Second Street East >Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 >T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 >www.astroprinting.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >MacDV mailing list >MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > >Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From npoese at earthlink.net Thu Nov 9 03:17:33 2006 From: npoese at earthlink.net (Neil Poese) Date: Thu Nov 9 03:17:35 2006 Subject: [MacDV] How much HD space do I need? Message-ID: <7013668.1163071053239.JavaMail.root@elwamui-norfolk.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Yup, you've got to get an external FW drive. 250 gigs is a good start since storage is so cheap now. You'll find a lot of discussion on the various brands of drives, and after having owned dozens of drives that I've used in school video labs, right now I'm happiest with the new drives that Promax carries. They've been around since the beginning of DV and generally carry the best stuff. I always prefer a drive with a fan to one without. Your Mac does have enough RAM, doesn't it? Neil -----Original Message----- >From: Mark Des Cotes >Sent: Nov 8, 2006 9:18 AM >To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh." >Subject: [MacDV] How much HD space do I need? > >After all your help and all my research into producing vertical >movies in iMovie, my boss decided to go the extra step and gave me >the go ahead to purchase Final Cut Express HD. > >Now, I'm going to be producing 2 - 3 minute long commercials. For now >they will be composed of still photos a la Ken Burns Effect with >titles flying around over the images. Down the road I'll probable >incorporate video as well. How much HD space should I have available >for this? I have about 25GB free before I install FCE. I also have an >external 80GB USB1 drive but I find it slow. I'm thinking I should >maybe get a good size Firewire drive. But I have no idea what to look >for. Suggestions? > >Mark Des Cotes >Systems Manager/Graphic Designer > >Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. >3308 Second Street East >Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 >T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 >www.astroprinting.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >MacDV mailing list >MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > >Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 From janjay at mac.com Fri Nov 10 04:46:56 2006 From: janjay at mac.com (Joan Keenan) Date: Fri Nov 10 04:47:16 2006 Subject: [MacDV] FCE to dvd help Message-ID: <27E8818B-C524-4E87-B533-A96D03A92149@mac.com> Good morning all, I know this was discussed before and I thought I understood what to do, but am running into some difficulty and seem to have confused myself!!! more than usual. I have a video that I completed in Final Cut Express 3.5HD. I exported straight to QuickTime which does not give me any options as to settings. Then used Toast movie menu to burn the dvd. This works, but the movie then has the letterbox look although I did not select it and the originals are all 4:3. Then I tried to export as QuickTime conversion and played with the options there....this failed. Then I did a regular export to QT and opened in iDVD and set menus and then created a disk image. Now I am trying to burn that image using Toast as I remember this being recommended. What I'm not sure of is how to do the disk image in toast....Do I mount it on my desktop first and drag the 2 folders to the data panel? When I did that I got a dvd that played on my player, but after about 5 minutes started freezing.....I thought this was the workaround to avoid that problem. Can anyone summarize the best way to burn 30 minute video from FCE to a dvd. Please spell out any little adjustments you make....like exactly how to burn the image :-) Of course I am at crunch time with this video....isn't that usually when things go wrong???? Previously I've worked with iMovie and had few problems that I couldn't solve in burning. I'm on digest, so could you please copy any reponses to me. Many thanks, Joan Keenan janjay@mac.com MacMIni166 GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB SDRAM OS10.4.8 FCE HD 3.5.1 Toast 6.1.1 From jimash at optonline.net Fri Nov 10 17:08:01 2006 From: jimash at optonline.net (James Asherman) Date: Fri Nov 10 17:08:13 2006 Subject: [MacDV] FCE to dvd help In-Reply-To: <27E8818B-C524-4E87-B533-A96D03A92149@mac.com> References: <27E8818B-C524-4E87-B533-A96D03A92149@mac.com> Message-ID: <80BF354F-7710-4D48-9658-D802D7CEB8EE@optonline.net> On Nov 10, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Joan Keenan wrote: > .Do I mount it on my desktop first and drag the 2 folders to the > data panel? Close. Mount it and drag the whole fake disc into the toast window. If this doesn't work then you are doing something wrong. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20061110/1f54ec59/attachment.html From janjay at mac.com Sun Nov 12 07:18:33 2006 From: janjay at mac.com (Joan Keenan) Date: Sun Nov 12 07:18:50 2006 Subject: [MacDV] video dvd duplication problem Message-ID: <7675A0F2-75CC-49C0-99F4-58B6651C2437@mac.com> Hope someone can help. I have a dvd video that I authored and burned to dvd a couple of years ago. I have different copies and am getting the same problem with all of them. The "master" that I used to duplicate using an external duplicator. I made over 50 copies at that time with only a few problem disks...now when I put it in the duplicator it gets to 99% and then says there is a disk error bad media....the ejected disk seems to play ok but I didn't want to take a chance....I tried an older media....same results, I then tried several different dvd versions that I had and same problem... Then I decided to try Toast to make a copy.....get an error message near the end that says I/O problem disk may be copy protected!!!!!NOT!!! I then tried to make a disc image....again an error message..... I tried copying the folders to Toast manually and when I go to burn I get several different errors with different files!!!! I tried this on both my older PowerBook which was used originally! and my newer mac mini Intel.....no difference What could be going on???? No, like an idiot I did not save a disk image of it! I saved the origiinal files and saved it as an iDVD.proj....but now that I am using a newer version of iDVD....that doesn't work. This was supposed to be an easy duplication of an older video as I work on the new one!!!!! Any ideas. Joan Keenan janjay@mac.com MacMIni166 GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB SDRAM OS10.4.8 FCE HD 3.5.1 Toast 6.1.1 From rgb at ellerbach.com Sun Nov 12 08:03:55 2006 From: rgb at ellerbach.com (Rich) Date: Sun Nov 12 08:04:06 2006 Subject: [MacDV] video dvd duplication problem In-Reply-To: <7675A0F2-75CC-49C0-99F4-58B6651C2437@mac.com> References: <7675A0F2-75CC-49C0-99F4-58B6651C2437@mac.com> Message-ID: <455745EB.2020500@ellerbach.com> On 12-11-2006 10:18, Joan Keenan wrote: [snip] > No, like an idiot I did not save a disk image of it! I saved the > origiinal files and saved it as an iDVD.proj....but now that I am > using a newer version of iDVD....that doesn't work. > This is the part that seems odd. iDVD doesn't usually have a problem opening projects from older versions. I just opened a project from 2 years ago made with iM3/iDVD3 and iDVD6 opened it OK (the theme page wasn't exactly correct) and I could work on it. What error did you get? Rich From djwp1 at comcast.net Tue Nov 14 18:11:38 2006 From: djwp1 at comcast.net (Djwp) Date: Tue Nov 14 18:11:57 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Old Movie Look Message-ID: <92e37eb6e1ad5cff85726245c49e2279@comcast.net> Anyone have any advice on how to use Final Cut Pro to give video footage that old silent move look? From macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm Wed Nov 15 01:53:03 2006 From: macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm (Aaron) Date: Wed Nov 15 01:54:19 2006 Subject: [MacDV] video dvd duplication problem In-Reply-To: <7675A0F2-75CC-49C0-99F4-58B6651C2437@mac.com> References: <7675A0F2-75CC-49C0-99F4-58B6651C2437@mac.com> Message-ID: <20061115095412.DCD66418449@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Try sticking one of the discs containing the DVD-video into your computer's DVD drive and ripping it with MacTheRipper . I once managed to recover virtually all of an extremely defective Video-DVD that way whose files could not be copied by other means. I probably lost a few sectors, but not enough to notice. - Aaron >To: macdv@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >From: Joan Keenan >Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:18:33 -0400 >Subject: [MacDV] video dvd duplication problem > >Hope someone can help. > >I have a dvd video that I authored and burned to dvd a couple of >years ago. I have different copies and am getting the same problem >with all of them. The "master" that I used to duplicate using an >external duplicator. I made over 50 copies at that time with only a >few problem disks...now when I put it in the duplicator it gets to >99% and then says there is a disk error bad media....the ejected disk >seems to play ok but I didn't want to take a chance....I tried an >older media....same results, I then tried several different dvd >versions that I had and same problem... > >Then I decided to try Toast to make a copy.....get an error message >near the end that says I/O problem disk may be copy protected!!!!!NOT!!! > >I then tried to make a disc image....again an error message..... > >I tried copying the folders to Toast manually and when I go to burn I >get several different errors with different files!!!! > >I tried this on both my older PowerBook which was used originally! >and my newer mac mini Intel.....no difference > >What could be going on???? > >No, like an idiot I did not save a disk image of it! I saved the >origiinal files and saved it as an iDVD.proj....but now that I am >using a newer version of iDVD....that doesn't work. > >This was supposed to be an easy duplication of an older video as I >work on the new one!!!!! > >Any ideas. > >Joan Keenan >janjay@mac.com > >MacMIni166 GHz Intel Core Duo >2GB SDRAM >OS10.4.8 >FCE HD 3.5.1 >Toast 6.1.1 From janjay at mac.com Wed Nov 15 03:47:18 2006 From: janjay at mac.com (Joan Keenan) Date: Wed Nov 15 03:47:34 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: video dvd duplication problem In-Reply-To: <20061115021201.3D86641283F@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20061115021201.3D86641283F@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <5631F2C4-92DC-43DB-B21F-CA4BCA506011@mac.com> On Nov 14, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Rich wrote: > On 12-11-2006 10:18, Joan Keenan wrote: > > [snip] > >> No, like an idiot I did not save a disk image of it! I saved the >> origiinal files and saved it as an iDVD.proj....but now that I am >> using a newer version of iDVD....that doesn't work. >> > This is the part that seems odd. iDVD doesn't usually have a problem > opening projects from older versions. I just opened a project from 2 > years ago made with iM3/iDVD3 and iDVD6 opened it OK (the theme page > wasn't exactly correct) and I could work on it. What error did you > get? thanks Rich. You are right, but what happened is I backed up these files on an external drive, so now it doesn't find them. I guess I can go looking for them one by one, but looks like I might have moved some of them. :-( so it is not just the theme I have to find. I guess I can do it, but I was looking for a quick way :-) to just make copies as I am working on another project right now so I don't have much time to spend on this one. Joan From mark at astroprinting.com Wed Nov 15 05:27:48 2006 From: mark at astroprinting.com (Mark Des Cotes) Date: Wed Nov 15 05:33:41 2006 Subject: [MacDV] NTSC switches to PAL Message-ID: Hi all, My son has a presentation to make at school and needed a couple of minutes of video from one of the TV shows he watches. I figured out how to download the episode he needed. (I know it's not right but I'm not about to purchase an entire season on DVD just to have two minutes of video. And I've already checked Blockbuster and they don't have it.) I thought the easiest thing was to just prepare a DVD-Video disk in Roxio Toast, Add the video and crop it down to just the couple of minutes he needs. That part was simple enough, but when click to burn the disk a message pops up that it's changing the format from NTSC to PAL and I don't have a choice in the matter. I have no idea if the DVD players at his school will play a PAL disk. Why would it do this? The downloaded file has a long extension of ".dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi". I'm not all that familiar with iMovie or iDVD, can I use either of them to somehow convert the file so I can burn a NTSC disk? Mark From vtstream at yahoo.com Wed Nov 15 12:18:27 2006 From: vtstream at yahoo.com (Vtstream) Date: Wed Nov 15 12:19:59 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Old Movie Look In-Reply-To: <92e37eb6e1ad5cff85726245c49e2279@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20061115201827.25912.qmail@web84101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Not exactly an FCP solution and I'm sure there is another way to do this but..... I saw a segment where someone played the footage on a Black and White TV and then shot the screen with a minidv camera set on 24p.(Panasonic AG dv100) The result looked like an old time movie to me. Djwp wrote: Anyone have any advice on how to use Final Cut Pro to give video footage that old silent move look? _______________________________________________ MacDV mailing list MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20061115/a605e945/attachment.html From dalshar at optushome.com.au Wed Nov 15 19:04:16 2006 From: dalshar at optushome.com.au (Richard Dalziel-Sharpe) Date: Wed Nov 15 19:04:47 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Old Movie Look In-Reply-To: <20061115201827.25912.qmail@web84101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20061115201827.25912.qmail@web84101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Again, not exactly FCP but iMovieHD 6 has a black and white filter, a sepia filter and another that puts on scratches and jiggles the frame about. Unless what you are talking about is the speeded up movement apparent from the lower frame rate of silent movies. Silent movies were shot at around 16fps whereas since the advent of sound in the early 1930's movies have used 24fps as the standard. The change that is apparent when watching silent movies now is because of this difference in the fps. You should remember that when these movies were originally shown, they were projected at the correct speed, so that the acceleration that we now regard as part of the humour of silent films was not intended or used by the directors and actors of the time. So my approach would be to fiddle with the time to change the apparent speed of your footage and apply a black and white or sepia filter. If you want to do it using FCP, I am pretty sure that a Google search would find you a tool for the old film look, that is the scratches. There are filters for both black and white and sepia. Hope this helps, Richard Dalziel-Sharpe Australia On 16/11/2006, at 7:18 AM, Vtstream wrote: > Not exactly an FCP solution and I'm sure there is another way to do > this but..... > I saw a segment where someone played the footage on a Black and White > TV and then shot the screen with a minidv camera set on 24p. > (Panasonic AG dv100) The result looked like an old time movie to me. > > Djwp wrote: > Anyone have any advice on how to use Final Cut Pro to give video > footage that old silent move look? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20061116/6af5033f/attachment.html From videovideo at mac.com Wed Nov 15 20:00:13 2006 From: videovideo at mac.com (sb) Date: Wed Nov 15 20:00:52 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Old Movie Look In-Reply-To: <92e37eb6e1ad5cff85726245c49e2279@comcast.net> Message-ID: Graeme Nattress has a film effects plug-in that's great. It does a lot of things. There's a demo version you can try it out. http://www.nattress.com/ Otherwise, to use the built in filters (pretty painful) you can tint, strobe, etc. regards, sb On 11/14/06 6:11 PM, "Djwp" wrote: > Anyone have any advice on how to use Final Cut Pro to give video > footage that old silent move look? > From macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm Thu Nov 16 03:44:29 2006 From: macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm (Aaron) Date: Thu Nov 16 03:44:43 2006 Subject: [MacDV] NTSC switches to PAL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061116114437.4F7E942BB2B@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> >From: Mark Des Cotes >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:27:48 -0500 > >Hi all, > >My son has a presentation to make at school and needed a couple of >minutes of video from one of the TV shows he watches. I figured out >how to download the episode he needed. (I know it's not right but I'm >not about to purchase an entire season on DVD just to have two >minutes of video. And I've already checked Blockbuster and they don't >have it.) I thought the easiest thing was to just prepare a DVD-Video >disk in Roxio Toast, Add the video and crop it down to just the >couple of minutes he needs. That part was simple enough, but when >click to burn the disk a message pops up that it's changing the >format from NTSC to PAL and I don't have a choice in the matter. Perhaps you have "Toast Preferences -> General -> TV Standard" set to PAL. > I have no idea if the DVD players at his school will play a PAL disk. Almost every recent DVD player will play PAL disks, but it doesn't hurt to ask. If they don't know, get the model number and check its specs online. But, rather than converting an NTSC video to PAL and have the player convert it back to NTSC, check out a program called MovieGate to convert the required piece of the AVI file (cut with QuickTime Pro, perhaps) to a DVD. - Aaron >Why would it do this? The downloaded file has a long extension of >".dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi". I'm not all that familiar with iMovie or >iDVD, can I use either of them to somehow convert the file so I can >burn a NTSC disk? > >Mark From ronmichael at gmail.com Thu Nov 16 17:58:51 2006 From: ronmichael at gmail.com (Ron Michael) Date: Thu Nov 16 17:59:03 2006 Subject: [MacDV] NTSC switches to PAL In-Reply-To: <20061116114437.4F7E942BB2B@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20061116114437.4F7E942BB2B@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <37EF60FB-96E6-4FBF-A089-1E93DEEFE15D@gmail.com> Did I miss this original post & question? The best way to capture anything off a Mac screen is a program called Snapx Pro. You can do a Google to read about it or at versiontracker.com. Ron in Memphis From Karla-Tonella at uiowa.edu Thu Nov 16 18:05:25 2006 From: Karla-Tonella at uiowa.edu (Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu) Date: Thu Nov 16 18:05:37 2006 Subject: [MacDV] NTSC switches to PAL In-Reply-To: <37EF60FB-96E6-4FBF-A089-1E93DEEFE15D@gmail.com> References: <20061116114437.4F7E942BB2B@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> <37EF60FB-96E6-4FBF-A089-1E93DEEFE15D@gmail.com> Message-ID: SnapZ Pro actually. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ >Did I miss this original post & question? The best way to capture >anything off a Mac screen is a program called Snapx Pro. You can do >a Google to read about it or at versiontracker.com. >Ron in Memphis From fgarcia at shaw.ca Thu Nov 16 19:01:17 2006 From: fgarcia at shaw.ca (Frank Garcia) Date: Thu Nov 16 19:05:04 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: MacDV Digest, Vol 28, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: <20061117020542.6D8BD4357A1@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20061117020542.6D8BD4357A1@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: >------------------------------ >Message: 3 >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:27:48 -0500 >From: Mark Des Cotes >The downloaded file has a long extension of >".dvdrip.xvid-sfm.avi". I'm not all that familiar with iMovie or >iDVD, can I use either of them to somehow convert the file so I can >burn a NTSC disk? What I recommend is get Divx Doctor II and drop the AVI file on that. It becomes a .MOV file. Edit that file in Final Cut or maybe iMovie and you're set to go. After completing the video, run it through Compressor (and then to DVD Studio Pro) or Toast for finalization. From macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm Fri Nov 17 17:40:49 2006 From: macuser at aarons.fastmail.fm (Aaron) Date: Fri Nov 17 17:41:20 2006 Subject: [MacDV] NTSC switches to PAL Message-ID: <20061118014114.4D03C442EB3@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Mark, I'd be curious to know if you checked out my suspicion about your Toast Preferences. The way I describe it ("TV Standard" under the "General" tab of "Toast Preferences") is based on Toast Titanium 7.1. Also, when I try to replicate what you did, except with a PAL video as source and with my "TV Standard" preference set to NTSC, I get a dialog box asking whether I "want to write a PAL disc or re-encode all content to NTSC?" So you're either using a different version of Toast or there's some other preference that I'm unaware of that pre-empts the choice. - Aaron P.S. If Mark or anyone else reading this wants a screenshot of the preference settings and dialog box I'm referring to, just let me know! >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:44:29 -0800 >From: Aaron > >>From: Mark Des Cotes >>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:27:48 -0500 >> >>Hi all, >> >>My son has a presentation to make at school and needed a couple of >>minutes of video from one of the TV shows he watches. I figured out >>how to download the episode he needed. (I know it's not right but I'm >>not about to purchase an entire season on DVD just to have two >>minutes of video. And I've already checked Blockbuster and they don't >>have it.) I thought the easiest thing was to just prepare a DVD-Video >>disk in Roxio Toast, Add the video and crop it down to just the >>couple of minutes he needs. That part was simple enough, but when >>click to burn the disk a message pops up that it's changing the >>format from NTSC to PAL and I don't have a choice in the matter. > >Perhaps you have "Toast Preferences -> General -> TV Standard" set to PAL. [SNIP] From coolcat at hosting4days.com Fri Nov 17 19:43:38 2006 From: coolcat at hosting4days.com (revDAVE) Date: Fri Nov 17 19:43:52 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Re: best HD videocam for the Mac? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 10/18/2006 1:33 PM, "sb" wrote: > The big difference in quality is the lens. > That said, the little Sony HC-3 takes a pretty good picture, much improved > from the sub-$1,000 DV cameras. > > I don?t know who your viewers are, or what they will be comparing your video > to, but if you mean notice a difference between standard DV and HDV, yes, they > should notice an improvement. Will viewers notice a difference between HD and HDV? > > regards, > > sb -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat@hosting4days.com [db-lists] From aaronrobinsonproducer at hotmail.com Tue Nov 21 12:00:44 2006 From: aaronrobinsonproducer at hotmail.com (aaron robinsun) Date: Tue Nov 21 12:00:50 2006 Subject: [MacDV] audio editing Message-ID: OK basically i have several clips of some interviews however the background noise is extremely loud. There are conversations going on (just sounds like chatter) and a band playing in the background. I can hear enough of the interview, but is it possible to eliminate the background noise or dim it. I have FC express HD, i dont know if u can do anything using sound track, but i dont know which of the audio filters to use. Aaron Robinso 24" core 2 duo iMac 2.16GHz 1.5GB RAM _________________________________________________________________ Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.live.com/messenger/overview From cmmcdonald at mac.com Tue Nov 21 23:47:29 2006 From: cmmcdonald at mac.com (CM McDonald) Date: Tue Nov 21 23:47:42 2006 Subject: [MacDV] audio editing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 21 Nov 2006, at 20:00, aaron robinsun wrote: > OK basically i have several clips of some interviews however the > background noise is extremely loud. There are conversations going on > (just sounds like chatter) and a band playing in the background. I > can hear enough of the interview, but is it possible to eliminate the > background noise or dim it. > > I have FC express HD, i dont know if u can do anything using sound > track, but i dont know which of the audio filters to use. > > Aaron Robinso > 24" core 2 duo iMac 2.16GHz 1.5GB RAM I don't think you will improve it much - particularly with a random noise like chatter and varying multiple pitches from a band. It is easier to remove steady sounds (motor hums, central heating etc) with various filters in a programme like Logic, ProTools or Cubase but even then the results are rarely satisfactory. If you can record a chunk of the ambient noise at the time it makes this easier (or you could try looping a section where there is a lengthy pause in the conversation) then one of the smart noise-cancelling plugins might help. Basically they feed in an out-of-phase signal like the air force use in pilots' headsets to cut the engine noise. I would cut your losses, save a lot of time and reshoot with the sound much better designed if possible or add subtitles if not. Sorry if this is not what you want to here, but I have been there several times, and I always vow it will never happen again. That's why there are so many people involved in a professional shoot - it's very difficult to concentrate adequately on all the technical jobs - sound, lighting, camera let alone the artistic and production ones at the same time. Colin McDonald From coolcat at hosting4days.com Thu Nov 23 14:01:48 2006 From: coolcat at hosting4days.com (revDAVE) Date: Thu Nov 23 14:02:03 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Clip On Microphones Message-ID: I would like to find out what make and model of clip on microphone would be best for making fairly high quality - budget friendly videos. Q: What makes and models do they usually use on professional broadcast quality television new shows/interviews etc.? Is there a budget friendly version that is still good? - Is there yet another version - that possibly might have a microphone with a USB connection? -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat@hosting4days.com [db-lists] From hahndl at shaw.ca Thu Nov 23 15:41:22 2006 From: hahndl at shaw.ca (Darrell Hahn) Date: Thu Nov 23 15:41:45 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Clip On Microphones In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <96368757-52C7-48F6-A3F7-E99FE9C1BC98@shaw.ca> On 23-Nov-06, at 4:01 PM, revDAVE wrote: > I would like to find out what make and model of clip on microphone > would be > best for making fairly high quality - budget friendly videos. > > Q: What makes and models do they usually use on professional broadcast > quality television new shows/interviews etc.? Is there a budget > friendly > version that is still good? > > - Is there yet another version - that possibly might have a > microphone with > a USB connection? > > > -- > Thanks - RevDave > CoolCat@hosting4days.com > [db-lists] Hi RevDave, Not sure if you can use the words cheap (budget friendly) and good in the same sentence regarding microphones. What are you planning to use it for (podcasting)? Samson makes a USB mic that seems to get generally favourable reviews (no experience...you're on your own). http://www.macintouch.com/samsonc01u.html It's about $80 US. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000AP1RE8/macintoucwebsite/ ref=nosim Logitech and Plantronics make USB headsets (earphones and microphone in one unit), but not sure if that qualifies for "good" or if the form factor appeals to you. I use the Logitech 350 headset and it's fine for general voice and reasonably inexpensive ($20 CDN refurbed). They retail for around $70 I think. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/ EN,CRID=103,CONTENTID=10013 Have no idea about the Plantronics, which retail for around $90 CDN. http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/cat640035/ cat640035/prod440042 Regards, -D. Coram Deo ? Before the face of God ? Living life in the presence of God, under His authority, and for His honor and glory. http://www.fcchurch.ca From hahndl at shaw.ca Thu Nov 23 15:46:37 2006 From: hahndl at shaw.ca (Darrell Hahn) Date: Thu Nov 23 15:47:39 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Clip On Microphones In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9CA658D2-38F0-44EA-B36B-41980CC069BF@shaw.ca> On 23-Nov-06, at 4:01 PM, revDAVE wrote: > I would like to find out what make and model of clip on microphone > would be > best for making fairly high quality - budget friendly videos. > > Q: What makes and models do they usually use on professional broadcast > quality television new shows/interviews etc.? Is there a budget > friendly > version that is still good? > > - Is there yet another version - that possibly might have a > microphone with > a USB connection? > > > -- > Thanks - RevDave > CoolCat@hosting4days.com > [db-lists] Sorry...missed the subject line of "clip-on". You'll have a problem with USB mics as they are limited by cable length. Here is a list of several USB microphones though. http://www.bizrate.com/musicalinstrumentmicrophones/ products__keyword--usb+microphone.html -D. Coram Deo ? Before the face of God ? Living life in the presence of God, under His authority, and for His honor and glory. http://www.fcchurch.ca From selander at tkf.att.ne.jp Thu Nov 23 18:04:06 2006 From: selander at tkf.att.ne.jp (Tim Selander) Date: Thu Nov 23 18:04:22 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Clip On Microphones In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45665316.10507@tkf.att.ne.jp> The subject of mics is very subjective -- everyone has favorites for different reasons. The mic I have the most experience with is the Sony ECM-77 lav mic. Very small, very good quality audio. It's the main mic we use when doing interviews for broadcast. You can find them used in the $150 to $250 range. The older ECM-44 also sounds very good, but has a much larger (noticeable) capsule. I picked up one of those used for about $80, I think. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan revDAVE wrote: > I would like to find out what make and model of clip on microphone would be > best for making fairly high quality - budget friendly videos. > > Q: What makes and models do they usually use on professional broadcast > quality television new shows/interviews etc.? Is there a budget friendly > version that is still good? > > - Is there yet another version - that possibly might have a microphone with > a USB connection? > > > -- > Thanks - RevDave > CoolCat@hosting4days.com > [db-lists] From coolcat at hosting4days.com Fri Nov 24 18:01:07 2006 From: coolcat at hosting4days.com (revDAVE) Date: Fri Nov 24 18:01:22 2006 Subject: [MacDV] Clip On Microphones In-Reply-To: <96368757-52C7-48F6-A3F7-E99FE9C1BC98@shaw.ca> Message-ID: On 11/23/2006 3:41 PM, "Darrell Hahn" wrote: > Not sure if you can use the words cheap (budget friendly) and good in > the same sentence regarding microphones. What are you planning to use > it for (podcasting)? Hi Darrell - I'll be using it mostly for doing interviews for podcasts or videocasts... -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat@hosting4days.com [db-lists]