Re: Converting /Importing DVDs into iMovie

[Rob Davies]

On 17 Apr 2005, at 8:38 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote:

I have a friend who has had some almost 30 year old Super8 movies 
converted
to DVD. The people who converted them said that the soundstrip was 
worn out

(we recorded music soundtracks on the soundstrip 30 years ago).
SoŠ my friend wants to put a new music soundtrack on using iMovie. 
When he

tries to import/open the DVD files in iMovie he gets an error message
³Quicktime could not parseŠ error ­2048 and error ­43².
Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into
iMovie?

Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software?
Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who
converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape?


Send back and ask for DV or higher if possible for you to use at your 
end, this will also split the audio layer for reference or repair.




Ta
Rod

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School

Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003
Amy and Sam's Dad
[EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256
http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html


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Re: DVDs into iMovie : also EyeTV

[Jude]

Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into
iMovie?

Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software?
Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who
converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape?


The quickest and simplest would be to get the mini-dv tapes.

However, there is an excellent free application, which would solve a 
lot of the recent conversion problems people have been having, called 
Mpeg-streamclip. You can get it here 
.


I was just reading the help file on it to see if it could pull just 
the aiff out of the dvd when I also noticed that it specifically 
mentions dealing with EyeTV streams. It also does a great job of 
converting MPEGs to quicktimes. You will need to get Apple's Mpeg 2 
component for some operations.


I'm not familiar with iMovie at all, but another method that might 
work is to attach your dvd player to your camera, and your camera to 
your mac, and play the dvd in via E to E mode - capturing it with 
iMovie.


I do this with FCP all the time, and it is the quickest and simplest 
solution, being realtime.


cheers
Jude

Converting /Importing DVDs into iMovie

[Rod Blitvich]

I have a friend who has had some almost 30 year old Super8 movies converted
to DVD. The people who converted them said that the soundstrip was worn out
(we recorded music soundtracks on the soundstrip 30 years ago).
SoŠ my friend wants to put a new music soundtrack on using iMovie. When he
tries to import/open the DVD files in iMovie he gets an error message
³Quicktime could not parseŠ error ­2048 and error ­43².
Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into
iMovie?

Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software?
Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who
converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape?

Ta
Rod

-- 

Rod BLITVICH   Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School
Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003
Amy and Sam's Dad 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256
http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html


I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
   

[OT] WTD: Mini Cooper S

[Adam Yap]

Hey guys,

I know this is really out of left field, but I'm in the market for a 
Mini Cooper S. Just wondering if anyone here (seems like there are lots 
of Mac users amongst Mini Cooper owners for some reason) has one which 
they are looking to get sell in the next six months.


Ermrm.. Since this is so far off topic, do drop me a mail privately if 
you do.


Cheers :)

Adam

a pc to mac switcher -uses Virtual PC alot

[gary dorn]

found this which may be of interest to some, a PC user who has switch 
to mac ( panther), and uses virtual PC alot

has a lot of good things to say
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/mac_osx.html
--
Gary Dorn
Architect
Perth,  Australia

appleworks

[bp mad]

hello iam having a spot of trouble with appleworks
6.2.9 . it doesnt launch completely ,seems to just
hang and give me the spinning beachball forever . any
advice would be appreciated. running 10.3.9 
but it started doing this prior to upgrade .have
checked ownership & permissions and dumped the
preferences . the last time it started it seemed to
create a group of tmp files each was zero kin size 
  thanks for your time bmad

Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.
http://au.movies.yahoo.com

Off normal topics

[Adrian Skehan]

I have, on behalf of a NFP organisation, been searching the web for the 
best place to advertise for a CEO and any sites where available people 
with that level of management experience and qualifications may be 
listed but always seem to finish up on job sites.  any suggestions on 
where to look will be appreciated.


Regards,

Adrian


I love my iMac super Drive
http://cosmic.com.au/skehan 

Mac OS 10.3.9 Safari problem

[Tony Cockbain]

Many thanks for WAMUG help. In my case acidsearch was the culprit.

Cheers Tony

Tony Cockbain
Editor
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
PO Box 8114 Angelo Street
South Perth WA 6151
Australia
Tel & Fax 08 9367 7037
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion" [Francis 
Bacon]
 "The Great Tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis 
by  an ugly fact" [Thomas Huxley]



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Re: Mac OS 10.3.9

[Daniel Kerr]

On 17/04/2005 8:42 AM, "Tony Cockbain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have downloaded the 10.3.9 update and Safari no longer works. On
> investigation I seem to have Safari 1.3. When I restored version 1.2.4
> from my backup everything seems to work as before. Curious.
> 
> Cheers Tony
> Tony Cockbain


You could also try removing the Safari preferences and see if that makes a
difference.
Quit Safari. Then move the file to the desktop.
The file is located at Users/yourname/Library/Preferences and will be a file
called com.apple.safari.plist.

Relaunch Safari and see if it works. If it does then you can throw away the
old plist file. If it doesn't then you can put the old one back from the
desktop.

Hope that helps.

Kind Regards
Daniel 
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Re: Mac OS 10.3.9

[Greg Sharp]

On 17/4/05 10:42 AM, "Tony Cockbain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have downloaded the 10.3.9 update and Safari no longer works. On
> investigation I seem to have Safari 1.3. When I restored version 1.2.4
> from my backup everything seems to work as before. Curious.
There are other reports of the same problem on the MacFixit site
(http://www.macfixit.com). They have traced some of this to a couple of
Safari plug ins for most people. If you don't run these plug ins then I'd
suggest you run repair permissions. 

Re: Mac OS 10.3.9

[wyvern]

I am usually cautious and wait for others to check things out but this 
time just bit the bullet ... they are working fine together for me


Yvonne

On 17/04/2005, at 8:42 AM, Tony Cockbain wrote:

I have downloaded the 10.3.9 update and Safari no longer works. On 
investigation I seem to have Safari 1.3. When I restored version 1.2.4 
from my backup everything seems to work as before. Curious.


Cheers Tony
Tony Cockbain
Editor
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
PO Box 8114 Angelo Street
South Perth WA 6151
Australia
Tel & Fax 08 9367 7037
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion" [Francis 
Bacon]
 "The Great Tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis 
by  an ugly fact" [Thomas Huxley]



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Mac OS 10.3.9

[Tony Cockbain]

I have downloaded the 10.3.9 update and Safari no longer works. On 
investigation I seem to have Safari 1.3. When I restored version 1.2.4 
from my backup everything seems to work as before. Curious.


Cheers Tony
Tony Cockbain
Editor
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
PO Box 8114 Angelo Street
South Perth WA 6151
Australia
Tel & Fax 08 9367 7037
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion" [Francis 
Bacon]
 "The Great Tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis 
by  an ugly fact" [Thomas Huxley]

new Mac time lag

[Edward Arrowsmith]

This is not necessarily a complaint but a description of utter 
frsutration on behalf of someone who orded a G4 iBook over a month ago.


A young person named (lets say, Tara) wanted to buy a new computer. She 
knew how happy we were with our iBook and PowerBook. She had a play 
with these computers and enjoyed the experience. The decision to 
purchase a new computer is a huge outlay, and she is also a switcher. 
Tara finally decided to get a PowerBook 15" Superdrive with lots of 
RAM.


I recommended an Apple retailer in Perth as I had some reasonably 
satisfactory experience with, 'better than they were under the old 
management' they once told me. However, my perception and the retailers 
perception of themselves are not in accord.


Five weeks after ordering, no sign of the PowerBook and very weak 
excuses offered by the retailer after they promised two weeks. The 
problem is this switcher is about to switch again, back to Windows. 
Quite a few others that have been watching the process have now lost 
interest. They all like the look of the Mac and the interface and 
iTunes and IPhoto and GarageBand. These are young people in their 20s 
and are very influenced by these things. But they are also influenced 
by getting something they really want without having to wait over a 
month for it after ordering it.


I feel the retailer should take more responsibility as they are about 
to lose not just one customer, but also myself as a second (and I won't 
be recommending them again), and potentially more, as all those 
watching this episode are quite appalled at the time lag and would 
definitely not make a purchase there. This crew is also very 
iPod/Shuffle savvy and this market is also lost to this retailer.


If Tara had been offered a loan of a similar second hand computer it 
may have eased her anxiety and enabled her to become familiar with the 
OS. The retailer appears to have little interest in Tara as a buyer 
since she made her order. The 'service' ceased once the deal was done.


I don't know anything about the politics of Apple resellers, Apple 
Australia and Apple, but from the point of view of a customer who may 
potentially make another purchase in future, or recommend others to 
purchase similar stuff from a retailer, this its a very poor reflection 
of all three.

iDVD & Hard Drive space

[Rod Blitvich]

Hi
IDVD 5's help says you should have free disk space equal to twice the size
of your project , ie if 4gb project then need 8 gb free disk space.

I have all my project and the iMovie files etc on an external firewire
drive.
Should the 8 gb free space be on my start-up disk or on the external dive?

Ta
Rod

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Rod BLITVICH   Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School
Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003
Amy and Sam's Dad 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256
http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html
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