I know it must have been feats and feats?  But what a feeling after it is 
accomplished.

And in Germany we not only say "Break a leg", we say : "Hals und Beinbruch" . 
There they break a leg and the neck on top of it.
Marta

On Apr 21, 2012, at 10:55 AM, J. Blake wrote:

> John,
> 
> The movie was a great accomplishment; and from what you shared with us, just 
> getting it to play was another feat. Congratulations!
> 
> Next weekend at your 50th will be such a blast! And, with all your efforts, 
> it will be an occasion for everyone to remember. 
> 
> Our 50th in 2005 was our last reunion. It was a whole lot of fun. One of our 
> classmates took copious pictures which I enjoy viewing to this day.
> 
> Thank you for sharing your project with us. Be sure and let us know how it 
> turns out.
> 
> Good luck and break a leg! (Is that what they tell movie producers? Smile)
> 
> Jane
> 
> 
> John Robinson 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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