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
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