sounds like you got it figured out, congrats! and have a great time at the 50th!!
On 4/20/12, John Robinson <prof...@insightbb.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
