Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 5:58 pm. 1 comment
1. Go to youtube and start watching the video in your SAFARI browser.
2. Open the “Activity” window (via the Window menu or by pressing option-Command-A).
3. One of the items in the list will be much larger than the rest, and growing as you watch. This is the video file. Double click on this item and Safari will automatically download it for you to your desktop, it will be called get_video.
4. Click ONCE on the get_video file to select it, press enter (not return, enter is the shortcut to rename a file), and add .flv to the end of the filename.
5. You now have it saved on your desktop.
6. Go to http://perian.org, download and install perian 1.0 and you will be able to watch the flv flash files in quicktime player.
Posted 10 months, 4 weeks ago at 9:43 pm. 0 comments
I have a lot of .mov files. Each file is about 1 hour of movie footage but compressed to only 200-300MB. When I import them into iMovie it tries to convert them to dv files. Do you know a way to burn a collection of .mov files to a dvd so that they can be read with a normal dvd player?
Good question, let me explain a little bit about what you can and can’t do with CDs and DVDs.
Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year ago at 5:27 pm. 2 comments
Well, I’m on a bit of a run here with my new samsung D900 mobile phone, the latest being what are the best settings to compress a movie to watch on my phone. The phones resolution is 320×240, which I think is similar to an ipod. I use Handbrake to encode DVD’s, you can also use these settings to export from Quicktime pro, but Handbrake is free. Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 3:33 pm. 0 comments
This is a little bit advanced, but useful.
1. Insert the DVD/CD into your drive.
2. Run the TERMINAL application (In your Appplications Utilities Folder)
You will get a little window with a prompt something this: Macintosh:~ wayne$
Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 3:07 pm. 0 comments
To quote from the DivX website:
Due to limitations in the QuickTime Architecture, AVI video files containing MP3, WMA or AC3 audio tracks will not play directly in QuickTime based applications. You may experience stuttering, loss of sound, no sound or an error message.
We have written a useful application called “DivX Doctor II” which can fix these problems, and other issues QuickTime has with AVI files. You can download DivX Doctor II from http://doctor.3ivx.com/.
Here is the direct link to the file:
http://www.3ivx.com/codec/DivXDoctorII2.2.sit
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 3:49 pm. 4 comments
This entry arises from people always asking what is the best software to show slides at church….
TO MAKE A PRESENTATION WITH NO SOUNDTRACK…
(eg song words for church, a slideshow that plays in the background at a birthday etc)
1. Get a macintosh, don’t waste time with a PC. Don’t use powerpoint unless you want to waste a lot of your time.
2. For a presentation that has plain slides and maybe 1 or two movies, keynote is good. It comes as part of iwork from Apple.
3. If you need to use lots of multimedia, or last minute flexibility to make changes, then ’see’ may be better. (’see’ is available from rwts.com.au - sign up for beta version under products - see) Continue Reading…
Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 5:39 am. 1 comment
I just installed Front Row on my non-front-row mac and it works with my ATI Remote Wonder USB Remote Control. Very nice.
Here’s how I think I got it working, I tried a few things, this is what I think did it: Continue Reading…