Re: Photoshop course

[Jon Davison]

I'm not sure if this is okay to do or not on this forum, so please  
excuse the promo?


I am running an Intro to Photoshop course this weekend at the  
Futuresphere, Christ Church Grammar School (4th and 5th June). $175  
for the two days, so a bargain! notes supplied,

tea, coffee and biscuits as well. Latest iMacs with Photoshop CS5.

Short notice I know but we have a few places left if anyone is  
interested. Contact me off list.


Kind regards
Jon


DIGITAL MEDIA COURSES
Eye in the Sky Productions in association with Christ Church Grammar  
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Re: Vietnamese keyboard for Mac

[Jon Davison]

Thanks to everyone for their responses re the Viet font. It works a  
treat and yes I should have known!


Thanks
Kind regards
Jon


On 02/06/2011, at 5:03 PM, David Paul wrote:



Hi Jon

The simple answer is yes you can - I was sitting alongside our  
Vietnamese

interpreter in rural Viet Nam just last month with our respective MBPs
tapping away - me in English and our interpreter was typing away on  
her

machine in Vietnamese.

To do this on your computer open system preferences choose language  
and
text, click on input sources, select Vietnamese and hopefully you  
will be

away (using MacOS 10.6.7 at least).

Dave


On 2/06/11 3:46 PM, "Jon Davison"  wrote:



Hi everyone

Does anyone know if it is possible to get 'Viet font' for the Mac OS?
meaning, we need to write and read in Vietnamese.
So if this is possible that would be great.

Kind regards
Jon


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Re: How to burn/convert .mkv files using Toast 11

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Matt,

Toast 11 can convert MKV and burn to DVD.
DVD format is MPEG-2

On 02/06/2011, at 2:57 PM, Matt Falvey wrote:

> 
> Hi, I am having a very unusual problem with 5 .mkv video files.  I have 5 
> episodes of a show that I want to put onto DVD's. Each file is virtually the 
> same size (628.5MB, 624.7MB, 633.8MB, 631.6MB and 632.8MB),  the Permissions 
> rw r r (644) the same, the size 832 x 468 pixels.
> 
> In the first instance I put the individual files into Quicktime Pro and 
> Converted them and then burned them, but the .mkv format has the bottom third 
> of the picture obscured with massive subtitles (in allegedly English) of an 
> English language program, which can't be turned off, as it is burned onto the 
> disc.
> 
> So I found a work around. I opened Toasted 11 > Clicked Video > Selected > 
> DVD-Video >Clicked Finish>dropped the .mkv file into it and selected burn and 
> Toasted chugged away for about 4-5 hours and produced an approx. 3.5GB DVD 
> without the subtitles. Brilliant.  

When you selected ‘Burn’ did you check the ‘Write Speed’ to make sure it was 
not any faster than “4XDVD"
> 
> So I did this for the first 3 files without any problems. Then I put the 
> fourth one in, I noticed that when the Toast main window shrank down to the 
> small conversion window after I pressed burn, that the time ribbon seemed to 
> be moving a lot faster than it had on the previous conversions.  Sure enough 
> it did and moved much faster and after about a minute or so at about 15%, 
> Toast crashed.  The same happened when I tried the Fifth file.  No matter 
> what I have tried I have not been able to get these last two files to burn 
> under the same conditions as the first three.
> 
> Now I know that Toast is able to do the job as it has done it to the first 
> three. But what I don't know is what it actually did to the first three.  All 
> I know is it burnt the Disc using some code or codec?
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what code/codec/format that Toast would have used 
> to convert those first three files, so I can manually set it either in the 
> Toast Convert section or using Quicktime or something similar to ensure that 
> the file is converted in the same manner as had been the case on the previous 
> conversions?

Toast automatically encodes/converts the MKV files and then burns a DVD
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Matt
> 

Cheers,
Ronni

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Re: Vietnamese keyboard for Mac

[David Paul]

Hi Jon

The simple answer is yes you can - I was sitting alongside our Vietnamese
interpreter in rural Viet Nam just last month with our respective MBPs
tapping away - me in English and our interpreter was typing away on her
machine in Vietnamese.

To do this on your computer open system preferences choose language and
text, click on input sources, select Vietnamese and hopefully you will be
away (using MacOS 10.6.7 at least).

Dave  


On 2/06/11 3:46 PM, "Jon Davison"  wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to get 'Viet font' for the Mac OS?
> meaning, we need to write and read in Vietnamese.
> So if this is possible that would be great.
> 
> Kind regards
> Jon
> 
> 
> Eye in the Sky Productions
> Image makers to the Aviation Industry
> Unit 5 / 78 Marine Tce, Fremantle
> Western Australia  6160
> € Air-to-air photography
> € Print & web design/production
> € VR panoramas
> € Book production
> € Copywriting
> € Corporate ID
> T: 08 94335541
> M: 0403 235938
> E: j...@eyeinthesky.com.au
> W: 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Wanted 20" monitor

[Jon Davison]

Hi everyone

A friend of mine is looking for a 20" aluminium frame Apple monitor as  
an extension for her laptop, so wondering if anyone has one they

wish to sell? no problem if its a few years old

Kind regards
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[Jon Davison]

Hi everyone

Does anyone know if it is possible to get 'Viet font' for the Mac OS?  
meaning, we need to write and read in Vietnamese.

So if this is possible that would be great.

Kind regards
Jon


Eye in the Sky Productions
Image makers to the Aviation Industry
Unit 5 / 78 Marine Tce, Fremantle
Western Australia  6160
• Air-to-air photography
• Print & web design/production
• VR panoramas
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Re: How to burn/convert .mkv files using Toast 11

[James / Hans Kunz]

may be you have to do the conversion with 'mpeg streamclip' 
(http://www.squared5.com/) from your mkv to mpeg2 format & burn the mpeg2 to 
the dvd with toast
James

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On 02/06/2011, at 2:57 PM, Matt Falvey wrote:

> 
> Hi, I am having a very unusual problem with 5 .mkv video files.  I have 5 
> episodes of a show that I want to put onto DVD's. Each file is virtually the 
> same size (628.5MB, 624.7MB, 633.8MB, 631.6MB and 632.8MB),  the Permissions 
> rw r r (644) the same, the size 832 x 468 pixels.
> 
> In the first instance I put the individual files into Quicktime Pro and 
> Converted them and then burned them, but the .mkv format has the bottom third 
> of the picture obscured with massive subtitles (in allegedly English) of an 
> English language program, which can't be turned off, as it is burned onto the 
> disc.
> 
> So I found a work around. I opened Toasted 11 > Clicked Video > Selected > 
> DVD-Video >Clicked Finish>dropped the .mkv file into it and selected burn and 
> Toasted chugged away for about 4-5 hours and produced an approx. 3.5GB DVD 
> without the subtitles. Brilliant.  
> 
> So I did this for the first 3 files without any problems. Then I put the 
> fourth one in, I noticed that when the Toast main window shrank down to the 
> small conversion window after I pressed burn, that the time ribbon seemed to 
> be moving a lot faster than it had on the previous conversions.  Sure enough 
> it did and moved much faster and after about a minute or so at about 15%, 
> Toast crashed.  The same happened when I tried the Fifth file.  No matter 
> what I have tried I have not been able to get these last two files to burn 
> under the same conditions as the first three.
> 
> Now I know that Toast is able to do the job as it has done it to the first 
> three. But what I don't know is what it actually did to the first three.  All 
> I know is it burnt the Disc using some code or codec?
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what code/codec/format that Toast would have used 
> to convert those first three files, so I can manually set it either in the 
> Toast Convert section or using Quicktime or something similar to ensure that 
> the file is converted in the same manner as had been the case on the previous 
> conversions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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Hoax: Mobile Phone Numbers Go Public next month

[David de la Hunty]

this just got sent to me and a quick google reveals the same message used as a 
hoax since 2009 just in case anyone is getting them

The actual website looks quite legit and comes up under australian government 
so probs is OK, I'm not going to trust it though :)

dd

Begin forwarded message:

>  
>  This is for Australian phone numbers
> 
> 
> 
>   
>   REMEMBER: Mobile Phone Numbers Go Public next month.
> 
>  REMINDER all mobile phone numbers are being released to
>  telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale 
> calls.
> 
>  YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR TELERMARKETING CALLS
> 
>  Below is a link where you can enter your phone numbers 
> online to put
>  an end to telemarketing calls. Don't just delete those calls
>  otherwise you will find that you have been signed up for all 
> sorts
>  of extra services that you didn't want or know about. Like 
> special
>  chimes, music etc.
> 
>https://www.donotcall.gov.au/ 
>   
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How to burn/convert .mkv files using Toast 11

[Matt Falvey]

Hi, I am having a very unusual problem with 5 .mkv video files.  I have 5 
episodes of a show that I want to put onto DVD's. Each file is virtually the 
same size (628.5MB, 624.7MB, 633.8MB, 631.6MB and 632.8MB),  the Permissions rw 
r r (644) the same, the size 832 x 468 pixels.

In the first instance I put the individual files into Quicktime Pro and 
Converted them and then burned them, but the .mkv format has the bottom third 
of the picture obscured with massive subtitles (in allegedly English) of an 
English language program, which can't be turned off, as it is burned onto the 
disc.

So I found a work around. I opened Toasted 11 > Clicked Video > Selected > 
DVD-Video >Clicked Finish>dropped the .mkv file into it and selected burn and 
Toasted chugged away for about 4-5 hours and produced an approx. 3.5GB DVD 
without the subtitles. Brilliant.  

So I did this for the first 3 files without any problems. Then I put the fourth 
one in, I noticed that when the Toast main window shrank down to the small 
conversion window after I pressed burn, that the time ribbon seemed to be 
moving a lot faster than it had on the previous conversions.  Sure enough it 
did and moved much faster and after about a minute or so at about 15%, Toast 
crashed.  The same happened when I tried the Fifth file.  No matter what I have 
tried I have not been able to get these last two files to burn under the same 
conditions as the first three.

Now I know that Toast is able to do the job as it has done it to the first 
three. But what I don't know is what it actually did to the first three.  All I 
know is it burnt the Disc using some code or codec?

Does anyone have any idea what code/codec/format that Toast would have used to 
convert those first three files, so I can manually set it either in the Toast 
Convert section or using Quicktime or something similar to ensure that the file 
is converted in the same manner as had been the case on the previous 
conversions?

Thanks

Matt

 


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