[MacDV] Re: QT/SimpleVideoOut (ES)

[YangZone at aol.com]

Is there a way to set up SimpleVideoOut/etc output so it does not always fill the monitor screen (for smaller QuickTime movies such as typical (cache-grabbed!) downloads)?


>>>I just discovered the most amazing QuickTime secret 
and I had to share because 

(1) It's very cool; and 
(2) I'm not writing a book that can use this trick 
    right now (although I'll probably throw it in as 
    a sidebar in iMovie 3 Solutions if I can find 
    enough inches during galley reviews); and 
(3) I'm dying to see if anyone else thinks it is as 
    cool as I do. 

That having been said, pop over to developer.apple.com 
and get yourself a free online membership. 

Then visit 
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/QuickTime/Capturing/SimpleVideoOut.htm >
(or http://tinyurl.com/9jo8 )
and download the sample material. You don't need a compiler. 
Apple included a compiled version of SimpleVideoOut X. 

Connect your fave firewire output device to your Mac 
(I'm using a Director's Cut, but any Sony, Canopus 
or DV camera with video pass through will do) and 
from that to your fave TV. (You can use a plain DV 
camera, but you have to record to tape and then output 
to TV. Two steps. Too hard for Extremely Lazy People(TM).) 

Launch SimpleVideoOut X. Set your output component to 
FireWire and Apple FireWire NTSC (USA folk) or Apple 
FireWire PAL (most Euro/Aussie folk). 

If the file open dialog doesn't automatically appear, 
choose File > Open. 

Navigate to a movie that QuickTime can read. Any movie. 
An MP4 from a friend's wedding. A DIVX from the Prelinger Archives. 
The reference movie automatically created by iMovie 3 
in your project folder. Whatever. Select it and open it. 

Find the little downward arrow on the bottom-right of the 
window, just to the left of the resize handle. Click it. 

Choose Video Output Echo Port Off. 

Your video should now appear on your TV screen. 

Play your movie. Watch your movie. If you want, record 
your movie. 

Whatever. 

Another cute trick: 
If you have two Macs available, you can use SimpleVideoOut X to convert .avi, shockwave, divx, etc in real time and import into FCP/FCE/iMovie. 

I'm watching MPEG-1 video *WITH* audio right now without 
any trouble at all through the firewire/director's cut on 
a small TV set. I just set "Video Output Sound On". 

SimpleVideoOut:I chose Video Out Echo Port Off.