Video Editing

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Watt
Hi Guys, I need to do some video editing but have been running into a lot of problems. I can't use iMovie (06 or 08) because it compresses my screencap footage so badly that it is illegible. My problem is that I need to include both footage from a camera and footage taken from iShowU. Does

Re: Video Editing

2007-09-24 Thread Jude
There's FInal Cut express, which is around $429 and is only really slightly dumbed down from the Pro version. Or there's soemthing like Avid Free DV, which is free but a very dumbed down version of the other Avid products. Or there's Adobe Premier .. I think that's round $900 for the Pro

Re: Video Editing

2007-09-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, On 24/09/2007, at 2:05 PM, Chris Watt wrote: I need to do some video editing but have been running into a lot of problems. I can't use iMovie (06 or 08) because it compresses my screencap footage so badly that it is illegible. If you intend to edit in iMovie have your movie

Re: Video Editing

2007-09-24 Thread Brian Scott
On 24/09/2007, at 2:05 PM, Chris Watt wrote: Hi Guys, I need to do some video editing but have been running into a lot of problems. I can't use iMovie (06 or 08) because it compresses my screencap footage so badly that it is illegible. My problem is that I need to include both footage

New Mac User

2007-09-24 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, My step-son (who lives in Dubai) has just switched from the dark side to a new iMac 24 inch. He bought it while he was in Seattle USA last week. A couple of hours ago he signed up for a .Mac account. We just tried to communicate using iChat but for some reason his iChat will not

Re: Word problem

2007-09-24 Thread John Winters
Peter, Word will have used your current printer to paginate your document as you see it on screen. I'm not what technique you used to convert your Word document into a PDF, but my guess is that the conversion used a virtual printer with a subtly different page definition, forcing your document to

Re: New Mac User

2007-09-24 Thread Nicholas Harvey
Stephen, There is no waiting period however I would get him to check the firewall and his router. Get him to go to http://docs.info.apple.com/ article.html?artnum=93208 an ensure that the router he is using is configured appropriately. If you can video chat with other people then yours

Re: New Mac User

2007-09-24 Thread Brett Carboni
Or you could try Skype. I tried iChat but gave up due to too many problems (plus not totally secure regarding a 'user id' like with Skype). Skype just works. And believe me, I would rather use Apple products but it was too much in the end. I *would* be interested to know from someone who

Re: McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 Vista?

2007-09-24 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 24/09/2007, at 11:22 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Personally I won't let anything carrying the word Nortons in its title anywhere near any of my computers. It's just asking for trouble. I agree completely with you Peter, that's why I chose McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 instead of

Re: Video Editing

2007-09-24 Thread Martin Hill
Chris, I'd recommend Quicktime Pro. Once you pay the US$30 and enter your QT Pro Serial number, some impressive new capabilities are enabled in Quicktime Player which include the option of copying and pasting in multiple tracks of audio and video to appear side-by-side or

Re: VMware Fusion vs Parallels - Any users?

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Many thanks to Peter, Dustin Rod for their feedback - and a particular thankyou to Ken Houghton (no relation!) who scanned a Macworld comparison sent it to me. Seems like they both have their pros cons but both offer a good solution. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western

Emails - MYOB Account Edge V5

2007-09-24 Thread Wilson Tony
Hi all Used to email invoices now says your email programme is not fully supported. Create a new message in Mail and attach the pdf document created by the MYOB., etc Any clue why it has decided to refuse the instruction. Using the latest OS versions Many thanks Tony Wilson Metal

Re: Video Editing

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Watt
Hi All, Thanks for all your tips. FCE still seems to be limited to DV sizes (PAL, NTSC, etc.). Which means that I get horrible compression problems. iMovie also seems to have the same compression issues. I am not sure how to use QT, nothing online really seems to explain it. Are there any

FW: Webcams? YES! former PC webcam now on Mac!

2007-09-24 Thread Ken Jackson
Hi team, Wow! I read these posts recalled I had a USB Webcam that I used to use with a PC, not Mac compatible so I thought!! Got on to Skype/logitech etc found macam! Downloaded, followed instructions now I have a great picture that I can record on video or still shots, pretty good quality