Audio Video into a Mac
Can anyone tell me the best solution to bringing video (VCR PAL) using RCA plugs or whatever or audio (RCA Plugs) from cassette into a Mac so I can burn music or video onto a CD. Any advice would be welcome -- Peter J Faulks (BA Soc Sci, Grad Dip Ed (Secondary), IAP, FASSA) Technology Department St Stephen's School Carramar Campus, St Stephen's Avenue, Tapping School EMail: Peter Faulks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (Carramar) (08) 9306 7100 Fax: (08) 9306 7101 Mobile: 0416 187 937
Re: Audio Video into a Mac
Can anyone tell me the best solution to bringing video (VCR PAL) using RCA plugs or whatever or audio (RCA Plugs) from cassette into a Mac so I can burn music or video onto a CD. I'd appreciate too a knowledgeable member discussing how to a) burn VHS video onto DVD via one's Mac, and b) how to copy DVD to DVD if such a thing is possible - and c) transferring digital 8 onto DVD. I'm used to copying records onto CDs and copying CD to CD via Track Thief; and Toast. T Tom Lewis, in beautiful Jervis Bay, NSW, Oz
Fwd: MPEG2 encoding to SVCD - use toast 6
Toast 6 Should do the trick. http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/features.jhtml Well worth the price of the software as it does soo much more than just burn discs. Take a look. Dave On 20/12/2003, at 5:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:26:54 +0800 Subject: MPeg-2 encoding on the Mac From: Paul Mulroney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everyone, I've created a movie on my mac using iMovie 3, and now I'd like to create a SVCD (since I don't own a dvd burner, and CD's are cheap and SVCD's play on a lot of dvd players anyway). To create SVCD's you need to have a mpeg-2 encoded file. I found a solution called TMPEG ENC, but it only runs on a PC. iMovie 3 will export AVI, Quicktime Movie, mpeg-4, and DV stream (amongst others), but not mpeg-2. So, at the moment I have to export the DV stream to the PC, then use the TMPEG ENC to convert to mpeg-2, and then use Nero to create the SVCD. I saw on the Apple site that you can buy a mpeg-2 player license for quicktime, but it doesn't say that if you buy this and/or upgrade to quicktime pro that you can encode mpeg-2. Is there a way to create SVCD's on a Mac, without having to use the dark side? I heard that Toast will create the SVCD layout, but there must be a Mac solution to do mpeg-2 encoding. All help greatly appreciated, Paul. -- Paul W. Mulroney - Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. -Socrates
Re: Audio Video into a Mac
At 09:02 +0800 20/12/03, Peter Faulks wrote: Can anyone tell me the best solution to bringing video (VCR PAL) using RCA plugs or whatever or audio (RCA Plugs) from cassette into a Mac so I can burn music or video onto a CD. Peter, one of the easiest ways I've found for transferring combined video/audio from VHS to computer is to play from the source VHS player into a DV (digital video) camera, then take a FireWire feed out of the camera and into the computer. The DV camera essentially does the conversion of VHS to DV for you, and you can then use whatever video editing software you like on the computer. If your DV camera doesn't allow this pass-through conversion, you could instead do a tape-to-tape copy from VHS to DV, then play the DV tape into the computer via FireWire. I imagine you could capture audio in this way too, separately from the video, with appropriate capture software. You could also input an audio-only feed through the microphone socket on your computer and capture it that way using any number of freeware/shareware/commercial programs. Once your audio is on the computer you could organise it using software such as iTunes and then burn it to CD. I don't put video onto CD, I put it back to DV tape. There are video formats around for video on CD, I just haven't experimented with them - Shay? Onno? If your computer has a SuperDrive you could put it onto DVD instead. All of the above applies to Mac and Windows platforms. Hope this helps. -- Andrew Nielsen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cabling problems ISPs
Some may not be aware that other conditions besides ISPs may affect download efficiency. For example, ancient Telstra cabling in my district restricts my 56k connection to about 30k, often less. Clearly some of us are more fortunate than others. I'm waiting for some wag to tell me to move to another district :-) Happy Holidays Vladimir James - Paul Kitchener's comment about ISPs -- PS Sorry about leaving the previous thread in this message, I think it is probably apt. If a 56k connection has probs with text Id be looking for a new ISP or something.
Security Update 2003-12-19 Posted By Apple
Apple has posted Security Update 2003-12-19 which is available from 'Software Update' under your Apple menu (3.6Mb). According to Mac Rumors this update includes the following components: AFP Server, ASN.1 Decoding for PKI, cd9660.util, Directory Services, fetchmail, fs_usage, rsync. and System Initialization. R.K. --- Richard Kay Fremantle Western Australia
mpeg in quicktime
Hi All, I have a movie that has been encoded in Intervideo audio and video (according to Windows Media Player) and is apparently an mpg. I can play the video under windows no problems, but I keep getting an error under Quicktime that says Quicktime can not play this video because it is in a format that Quicktime does not understand or something similar. I can watch all manner of other Divx or Xvid movies in Quicktime, but not this one. Anyone have an idea as to which codec I might need or why it isn't working? Cheers, Adam.
