Thank you Bill, what a nice thing to say. I hope all goes well, will be happy when it's over and know if it went well.
John On Apr 20, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Bill Micou wrote: > Great info! Your class is very lucky to have you and your creative mind. Way > to go. > Bill > > On Apr 20, 2012, at 5:49 PM, John Robinson <prof...@insightbb.com> wrote: > >> Once again I will be talking to a small audience I am sure but just in case >> there would be someone out there that could use the info. I wanted to send. >> >> A week from tomorrow my wife and I have our 50 year class reunion, I have >> been working a year to really put on a show for our classmates, more work >> that you would care to hear. The last item was to make a movie, I had to >> learn FinalCut X, Motion, Compressor, Color (build into FinalCut X) and I >> attempted Logic but had to shelve it until after the class but I could do a >> lot of the audio work inside FinalCut. >> >> For the group I will use a projector to a very large screen with Bose L1 >> speakers for sound. I completed the movie just yesterday so now the trick >> was to first see if I could get this to work with the projector. I am using >> a Mini due to the HDMI output, then I will use the earbud outputs to the >> Bose sound system, I wanted to be sure I could do this and the sound didn't >> attempt to go out the HDMI cable. No one at Apple had ever tried it but >> they all thought it would work. >> >> So this morning I hooked everything up and this is what I wanted to tell the >> group. The HDMI would do the video, the sound would go to the BOSE, so I >> was elated, however I could NOT get the video to play on the screen. I >> could see other items on the large screen but no movie. After setting up >> the resolutions for the projector I turned on mirroring and everything would >> show up but the video. What the heck? >> >> I disconnected everything from the projector and moved it to a flatscreen >> thinking there may be a setting in the projector I didn't know about. Nope, >> same thing on the flatscreen. >> >> I spent forever and by accident I found the problem. WHEN you are running a >> movie in Quicktime, at least under the setup I was using, you have to change >> to FULL SCREEN (In Lion), the screen rolls around and there is your video. >> Take it off Full screen and you are back to whatever is on your desktop, be >> it a spreadsheet, iTunes, etc. etc. but watching a movie in Quicktime >> REQUIRES FULL SCREEN to work. >> >> Maybe there is a setting I couldn't figure out but no need this works >> perfect. You can't control the volume with your keyboard using Fullscreen, >> that takes you out of fullscreen and your video is gone (hidden) but you can >> use a Front Row remote to control the Mini, including the sound, and it >> doesn't alter your video at all. >> >> I will film more at the Alumni Banquet, our party after the banquet at a >> local restaurant, then I will film the big party Saturday night. When all >> this is done I will add this to what I will show my classmates, end with a >> section about our families (many of the group have sent me their entire >> family photo's) and THEN I will burn a DVD which I will mail to everyone in >> the class so they won't have to mess with this, they can just play the DVD >> but for me using it Saturday night I had to figure a way to play this in >> Quicktime. Turns out it's pretty cool. >> >> John >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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