[MacDV] Re: QT/SimpleVideoOut (ES)

[Erica Sadun]

>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)?

You can if you own QuickTime Pro.

-- E


>
>>>>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.
>
>
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