From ksay11081 at mac.com Wed Aug 1 13:36:47 2007 From: ksay11081 at mac.com (KS) Date: Wed Aug 1 13:37:07 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Audio Sample Rate Message-ID: <8CDF9A2E-1B2B-4E0C-B216-764505720581@mac.com> sb, Forgive me for corresponding directly with you, instead of the entire macdv list. but, you've been helpful in the past. If you'd rather I didn't email you directly please let me know. Anyway, I just completed a 4 min. video of a news story for a client's product. (Cut out commercials, cleaned up & added beginning and end title.) I can export the completed project as a QT video, but when I try to export as a WMV file I keep getting a message that reads, "Inconsistent Audio Sample Rate - the media you are exporting contains audio with multiple sample rates." I've opened the project several times and tried to find a way to convert the audio sample rates into one rate or at least verify the audio sample rate, but I'm stuck. Can you suggest a fix please? Thanks, ks From drdon at mwt.net Wed Aug 8 16:57:56 2007 From: drdon at mwt.net (Donald Tully) Date: Wed Aug 8 16:58:24 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer Message-ID: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> Hi Listers - I need a little help, please. About a month ago I made an iMovie project using legally purchased and downloaded music from iTunes. I burned the project with iDVD and all was well. Today I made some changes to the project and attempted to burn it again using iDVD. An error message told me that I needed to have the iTunes Store authorize my computer to use the music. Being the compliant guy that I am, I said sure. But even after I went through the authorizing process, I was still not able to use the music with my project. Can anyone tell me 1) Why do I have to get "authorized" to use music that I purchased (Same computer used to buy the music and make the DVD. and 2) Why won't the music that I purchased and then authorized work with my project now when it worked fine with the original version of the project? Thanks in advance... From dkschmoopy at shaw.ca Wed Aug 8 19:30:05 2007 From: dkschmoopy at shaw.ca (Deanna Kemp) Date: Wed Aug 8 19:30:34 2007 Subject: [MacDV] converting idvd menu theme to a .mov segment Message-ID: <9128309F-2919-422D-8B73-2ECE1B4E62DF@shaw.ca> I would like to use the Baby Mobile iDVD theme as a clip in a movie to be created on FCP. I dropped my pics in the iDVD project with the Baby Mobile theme and put in a green background so I could later key out the background and replace it with a different background. I deleted the title and added a short movie to the menu. Because I don't want to use the theme as a DVD menu, I made the menu button the same color as the green background. I then burned the DVD. Next I ripped the DVD using MactheRipper to give me the Video TS folder. I then used Handbrake to convert the VOB files to Mpeg4. Unfortunately, Handbrake only converted the 10 second movie I put in iDVD and not the Baby Mobile iDVD theme. Any ideas out there to help me use the iDVD menu theme as a standalone clip in a movie? I did find the source material of the theme in the Mobile.pox folder; it contains the 2 .mov files with alpha channels but I would rather not go through the time consuming process of keying in the movements and size of my pics to match the Mobile. It would take too much time and I don't know how successful it would be. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. Deanna Kemp Little Schmoopy DVD Productions dkschmoopy@shaw.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20070808/61f6c840/attachment.html From gerhardk at mac.com Wed Aug 8 20:50:09 2007 From: gerhardk at mac.com (Gerhard Kuhn) Date: Wed Aug 8 20:50:28 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> Message-ID: <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> Hi Donald Not sure why your computer won't let you do this but there is always a way to circumvent these things. If you take the song and burn it to cd and then import to iTunes you will not have any more DRM issues with the song. It is not an eloquent solution but it does work. Gerhard On Aug 8, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Donald Tully wrote: > Hi Listers - I need a little help, please. About a month ago I > made an iMovie project using legally purchased and downloaded music > from iTunes. I burned the project with iDVD and all was well. > Today I made some changes to the project and attempted to burn it > again using iDVD. An error message told me that I needed to have > the iTunes Store authorize my computer to use the music. Being the > compliant guy that I am, I said sure. But even after I went through > the authorizing process, I was still not able to use the music with > my project. > > Can anyone tell me 1) Why do I have to get "authorized" to use > music that I purchased (Same computer used to buy the music and > make the DVD. and 2) Why won't the music that I purchased and then > authorized work with my project now when it worked fine with the > original version of the project? > > Thanks in advance... > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20070808/700c6b19/attachment.html From drdon at mwt.net Thu Aug 9 05:44:36 2007 From: drdon at mwt.net (Donald Tully) Date: Thu Aug 9 05:44:49 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> Message-ID: <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> Gerhard - The eloquence is in the simplicity! Thanks for the suggestion... Don On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:50 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote: > Hi Donald > > Not sure why your computer won't let you do this but there is > always a way to circumvent these things. If you take the song and > burn it to cd and then import to iTunes you will not have any more > DRM issues with the song. It is not an eloquent solution but it > does work. > > > Gerhard > > > On Aug 8, 2007, at 7:57 PM, Donald Tully wrote: > >> Hi Listers - I need a little help, please. About a month ago I >> made an iMovie project using legally purchased and downloaded >> music from iTunes. I burned the project with iDVD and all was >> well. Today I made some changes to the project and attempted to >> burn it again using iDVD. An error message told me that I needed >> to have the iTunes Store authorize my computer to use the music. >> Being the compliant guy that I am, I said sure. But even after I >> went through the authorizing process, I was still not able to use >> the music with my project. >> >> Can anyone tell me 1) Why do I have to get "authorized" to use >> music that I purchased (Same computer used to buy the music and >> make the DVD. and 2) Why won't the music that I purchased and >> then authorized work with my project now when it worked fine with >> the original version of the project? >> >> Thanks in advance... >> _______________________________________________ >> MacDV mailing list >> MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv From parvenu at mac.com Thu Aug 9 06:18:02 2007 From: parvenu at mac.com (Stephen Orbach) Date: Thu Aug 9 06:18:31 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> Message-ID: <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> I seem to recall a tip in either MacLife or MacWorld where you could do it internally by first importing it into Wiretap ( I think) which would strip the DRM and then re-importing them into ITunes. Steve Orbach On Aug 9, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Donald Tully wrote: >> Not sure why your computer won't let you do this but there is >> always a way to circumvent these things. If you take the song and >> burn it to cd and then import to iTunes you will not have any more >> DRM issues with the song. It is not an eloquent solution but it >> does work. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20070809/93838ad4/attachment.html From dfz at mac.com Fri Aug 10 08:26:27 2007 From: dfz at mac.com (Dennis Fazio) Date: Fri Aug 10 08:26:47 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> Message-ID: On Aug 9, 2007, at Thu, Aug 9 2007, 8:18 am, Stephen Orbach wrote: > I seem to recall a tip in either MacLife or MacWorld where you > could do it internally by first importing it into Wiretap ( I > think) which would strip the DRM and then re-importing them into > ITunes. Wiretap is a recording app, so, though it would work, I think this would require real-time translation, which could get lengthy depending upon the music involved. But it would save CDs. I seem to remember once doing the export to audio out of iTunes and reimport back in, but instead of doing it to CD, I was able to do it to a disk image. However, current versions of iTunes don't allow export of audio to anything other than an audio CD. I was going to go back to try to find older versions of iTunes, but haven't gotten to this. I remember doing several albums worth of songs from the iTunes music store to get them from protected AAC into MP3 format. -- Dennis Fazio From gerhardk at mac.com Fri Aug 10 08:48:39 2007 From: gerhardk at mac.com (Gerhard Kuhn) Date: Fri Aug 10 08:48:49 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> Message-ID: If wasting the cd is a concern use cd-rw it will only take a little more time an will be more friendly to the environment. Gerhard On Friday, August 10, 2007, at 11:26AM, "Dennis Fazio" wrote: > > But it would save CDs. > >I seem to remember once doing the export to audio out of iTunes and >reimport back in, but instead of doing it to CD, I was able to do it >to a disk image. However, current versions of iTunes don't allow >export of audio to anything other than an audio CD. I was going to go >back to try to find older versions of iTunes, but haven't gotten to >this. I remember doing several albums worth of songs from the iTunes >music store to get them from protected AAC into MP3 format. > >-- >Dennis Fazio From dfz at mac.com Fri Aug 10 09:38:49 2007 From: dfz at mac.com (Dennis Fazio) Date: Fri Aug 10 09:39:00 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> Message-ID: On Aug 10, 2007, at Fri, Aug 10 2007, 10:48 am, Gerhard Kuhn wrote: > If wasting the cd is a concern use cd-rw it will only take a little > more time an will be more friendly to the environment. It's possible that I was misremembering and may have instead used a CD-RW to do my conversions. Using a CD-RW also saves popping CDs in and out for each batch of conversion. The CD-RW just becomes an auxiliary temporary memory for export/import. -- Dennis Fazio From videovideo at mac.com Fri Aug 10 10:13:00 2007 From: videovideo at mac.com (sb) Date: Fri Aug 10 10:13:33 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> Message-ID: or, you can import the audio to an iMovie project, add one still image on the video track, then select the audio and Export>Expert>aiff No cd-r are wasted. regards, sb On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Dennis Fazio wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2007, at Fri, Aug 10 2007, 10:48 am, Gerhard Kuhn wrote: > >> If wasting the cd is a concern use cd-rw it will only take a >> little more time an will be more friendly to the environment. > > It's possible that I was misremembering and may have instead used a > CD-RW to do my conversions. Using a CD-RW also saves popping CDs in > and out for each batch of conversion. The CD-RW just becomes an > auxiliary temporary memory for export/import. > > -- > Dennis Fazio > From dfz at mac.com Fri Aug 10 13:10:53 2007 From: dfz at mac.com (Dennis Fazio) Date: Fri Aug 10 13:11:08 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> Message-ID: <977D9718-B877-4AD0-B80A-8AA14DD35247@mac.com> On Aug 10, 2007, at Fri, Aug 10 2007, 12:13 pm, sb wrote: > or, you can import the audio to an iMovie project, add one still > image on the video track, then select the audio and Export>Expert>aiff Can you do a large batch (20-30 songs) all at once, or do you have to manually import/export each individual song? Also, can iMovie export to MP3 or just AIFF? -- Dennis Fazio From videovideo at mac.com Fri Aug 10 13:56:15 2007 From: videovideo at mac.com (sb) Date: Fri Aug 10 13:56:28 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Re: Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: <977D9718-B877-4AD0-B80A-8AA14DD35247@mac.com> References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> <977D9718-B877-4AD0-B80A-8AA14DD35247@mac.com> Message-ID: If you do them sequentially laid out on one timeline, they will export as one big song. You could cut them up in QT, but it's probably easier if you have a bunch to do the CD burn. As far as other formats, you can only export audio out of iMovie as AIFF, WAVE, or AU. So, you would have to take the AIFF, import into iTunes, then convert to MP3. I think there are some Doug's AppleScripts that can semi automate the process. (Rip it where you want it, Multi Rip) regards, sb On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Dennis Fazio wrote: > > On Aug 10, 2007, at Fri, Aug 10 2007, 12:13 pm, sb wrote: > >> or, you can import the audio to an iMovie project, add one still >> image on the video track, then select the audio and >> Export>Expert>aiff > > Can you do a large batch (20-30 songs) all at once, or do you have > to manually import/export each individual song? > > Also, can iMovie export to MP3 or just AIFF? > > -- > Dennis Fazio > From lcotler at willitsonline.com Fri Aug 10 16:11:33 2007 From: lcotler at willitsonline.com (Lanny Cotler) Date: Fri Aug 10 16:10:39 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> Message-ID: <2FC03438-517B-4423-8F68-F52B184E9159@willitsonline.com> When in doubt, use Audio Hijack Pro. Anything going through the Mac audio circuits can be recorded to disk. I swear by it; nothing's off the table, not even impeaching Cheney. On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Dennis Fazio wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2007, at Thu, Aug 9 2007, 8:18 am, Stephen Orbach wrote: > >> I seem to recall a tip in either MacLife or MacWorld where you >> could do it internally by first importing it into Wiretap ( I >> think) which would strip the DRM and then re-importing them into >> ITunes. > > Wiretap is a recording app, so, though it would work, I think this > would require real-time translation, which could get lengthy > depending upon the music involved. But it would save CDs. > > I seem to remember once doing the export to audio out of iTunes and > reimport back in, but instead of doing it to CD, I was able to do > it to a disk image. However, current versions of iTunes don't allow > export of audio to anything other than an audio CD. I was going to > go back to try to find older versions of iTunes, but haven't gotten > to this. I remember doing several albums worth of songs from the > iTunes music store to get them from protected AAC into MP3 format. > > -- > Dennis Fazio > > From dfz at mac.com Fri Aug 10 19:20:08 2007 From: dfz at mac.com (Dennis Fazio) Date: Fri Aug 10 19:20:23 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Authorizing iTunes purchase for my computer In-Reply-To: <2FC03438-517B-4423-8F68-F52B184E9159@willitsonline.com> References: <9B40B5DE-F53C-4796-BBF3-1C8AC784F6F5@mwt.net> <5CB99947-3C3E-4AF6-9454-38D7AE7242C0@mac.com> <778A0683-6CBC-4542-8794-50A75D231A71@mwt.net> <7BEE0BF4-12BD-4D4B-9326-D24985608FC2@mac.com> <2FC03438-517B-4423-8F68-F52B184E9159@willitsonline.com> Message-ID: <472C2AE2-1B53-45B4-B58F-9871811CF5D4@mac.com> On Aug 10, 2007, at Fri, Aug 10 2007, 6:11 pm, Lanny Cotler wrote: > When in doubt, use Audio Hijack Pro. [...] nothing's off the table, > not even impeaching Cheney. With Audio Hijack Pro? -- Dennis Fazio From stever at mindspring.com Sat Aug 11 05:51:50 2007 From: stever at mindspring.com (Steve Robertson) Date: Sat Aug 11 05:52:27 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Transitions in iMovie HD Message-ID: In the past, I often used iMovie to create Ken Burns sequences with several still photos. After adjusting the motion of each photo, I would add Fade In, Fade Out, and a Cross Dissolve between each photo. I just tried to do the same thing with iMovie HD for the first time. When I try to add transitions, I get a dialog box telling me that I can not add transitions between very short clips. It says that clips must be at least 3:49:16 to add transitions. Old versions of iMovie handled transitions between ten second clips just fine! If you are doing serious editing, most of your clips will be less than 3 minutes. So iMovie HD is, in effect, telling me that I can't use transitions at all. Anyone have any idea why there should be such a radical change between the versions? Anyone have a good work around? Thanks, Steve R. From thhight at comcast.net Sun Aug 12 05:27:15 2007 From: thhight at comcast.net (Trueman H. Hight) Date: Sun Aug 12 05:27:29 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Transitions in iMovie HD In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Try adjusting the size of your transitions making them less than the size of the clips. Tueman >In the past, I often used iMovie to create Ken Burns sequences with >several still photos. After adjusting the motion of each photo, I >would add Fade In, Fade Out, and a Cross Dissolve between each photo. > >I just tried to do the same thing with iMovie HD for the first time. >When I try to add transitions, I get a dialog box telling me that I >can not add transitions between very short clips. It says that clips >must be at least 3:49:16 to add transitions. Old versions of iMovie >handled transitions between ten second clips just fine! > >If you are doing serious editing, most of your clips will be less >than 3 minutes. So iMovie HD is, in effect, telling me that I can't >use transitions at all. Anyone have any idea why there should be >such a radical change between the versions? Anyone have a good work >around? > >Thanks, >Steve R. >_______________________________________________ >MacDV mailing list >MacDV@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv From friendlyslp at aol.com Sun Aug 12 20:25:01 2007 From: friendlyslp at aol.com (friendlyslp@aol.com) Date: Sun Aug 12 20:25:14 2007 Subject: [MacDV] Special Effect for Research Project Message-ID: <8C9AB70AAE27739-CF4-119F5@webmail-mf11.sysops.aol.com> I am working on a university research project and I am trying to edit video, such that most of a person's face is masked except for his/her eyes.? I need to be able to obscure the interviewee's face enough that distinguishing features cannot be recognized, but to still allow an evaluator a clear view of the area around the eyes so as to see where the subject is looking. a) Is it possible to do this without spending a lot of time learning and applying special effects? b) Can I use iMovie (HD) and/or Final Cut Express HD 3.5 (applications we have immediately at hand); or would I need Final Cut Pro and/or something like After Effects? c) Any rough estimate of the amount of time that applying this effect might take -- say, per hour of interview?? (How much more work is involved if the subject doesn't remain fairly still?? Specifically, how much more difficult would this be to do for children who tend to move around a bit more?) I found a very nicely done Web page, complete with video lesson, describing the process of applying the compositing tool, "Travel Matte-Luma", which is available in Final Cut Pro (and FC Express as well, I believe): But this effect masks the _entire_ face; and, as noted above, we are trying to retain clear view of the eyes. Could this effect be modified with a cutout for the eyes, or would it be necessary to look elsewhere for the right tool? Thanks so much for any advice you might provide! ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20070812/6d0eddaa/attachment.html