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Click HERE to register now Re: Accessing more / all info columns in browser - 16 years agoHi Jewel-- Do your self a HUGE favor and Loose the No button mouse -- When I first started using a Mac I went 4 years using a no button mouse --OucH By my ruff calculations I wasted 11.6 months of my life clicking threw minues -- There are also the side benefit of using the 2 button mouse is you will end up having 2 incredibly Strong fingers - and if you Add in a scowlby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA OT Manuals for gear - - 16 years agoI found this site while looking for user manuals for some older Sennheiser wireless gear-- The manuals are in pdf and there free - This page is for several brands wireless gear there may be others categories -Jay-by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: OT: THIS IS THE FUTURE (think "Minority Report"... - 16 years agoabout a year ago MS posted about 15 videos on TouTube -- The videos were on YT about 4 days then Poof they all were gone - The videos had about a million views and thousands of comments- some were not good-- I think maybe if they made it into a Touch Refrigerator it might be more useful -- It could show you whats inside the the fridge with out opening the door - - Jay-by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: how do you rip videos from you tube? - 16 years agoYou can use ZamZar.com to convert file online and import to your mac -- There is about 15 different codecs available that the video can be converted to its free also --jay---by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Uninstall and Reinstall - 16 years agoLook in the FAQ at the top of the page --I think there is some older directions-- I did a delete and install about 6 weeks ago - I got the instructions from Apple K Base --was hard to find tho -- If I can locate instruction them I will post -- Its only about 6 files that get deleted -- Fixed my problem --Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: How do I Download Photobucket Video... please help - 16 years agoGo to ZamZar.com - send them the file ---Convert file to MOV. - You get the file converted sent to you on Email -- The Frames are usually a little small - bump up the size to 112 ----Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Edited music becomes jumbled - 16 years agoI had a simmular thing happen - I trashed the FCP User preferences and it fixed it -- Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP to Web - 16 years agoYep I use H264 in compressor --High Bit -- auto key frame- Deinterlace befor using compressor -- or convert to 720 P first --I have started using PhotoBucket -- It looks Very good --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: OT replacement camera - 16 years agoHi Jack You can still buy the Panasonic Reporter-- VHS -- New -- I think the model number is 750 or 770 or something like that -- Look in the back of some video Magazines like -- DV Maker -- I saw these cams New 6 months ago --Brand New -- Almost All legal companies use this cam --- Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: OT- G5- old but CHEAP- should I buy it? - 16 years agoat the bottom left of the Apple sales page they sell Refurbished Macs - I bought one and it was brand new - not a spec of dust or finger prints- and come with OS - On the school machines keep in mind that Hard drives usually die in 3 to 5 years of use - Also Ebay usually has some Macs --Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Any guesses or inside knowledge? - 16 years agoIts a 80 core Intel Mac - I read it on a financial site - Remember -Fallow the Money -by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: General error! - 16 years agoHi All-- I think you have gotten the wrong Idea -- It was Not the way that files were being saved - The 2 Identical Sequences and Project files Just show up - - Poof - They Can Not be Deleted - Then Crazy things One second FCP is Happy - a second later you have 2 files like I described -- I had wacky things like Alpha channels Disappear in titles - QT Conversion Crashes - andby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: General error! - 16 years agoHi All What happened to Mary was that she got 2 identical sequence and project files- Poof out of nowhere - This happened because of some glitch -- I had the same thing happen to me last week when my system decided to go wonky- I helped Mary fix her system and It was not Happy Camper -- It did a Lot of crazy things till we got it stable again- We disconnected the media and reconneby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Get ready for S3200 FireWire! - 16 years agoHi All I read about the 3.2 gig fire wire about 3 years ago in a Financial Magazine-- Fallow the money - From what I remember at the time 3.2 gig Firewire was the last one in the series that they had planed -- From what I remember there is 5 flavors of Firewire the rest being lower than the 3.2 gig -- Here a link to a new artical about it - -Jay -- http://www.pcworld.com/aby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Best way to record from cable TV. - 16 years agoI use S video from TV to mini DV cam or deck - then firewire it to FCP - I do this alot so that I can see what effects and edits are being used - I have learned alot doing this-- Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: QUICKTIME 7.3.1 - 16 years agoHi All I found this QT help site last week while trying to fix my system - The site is just about QT is is fairly active - At the moment QT 7.3 is causing many problems from what I read on this site- http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=932&start=0by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA FCP crash when using QT conversion for export - 16 years agoHi All- When I try to export from FCP using QT Conversion to H264 I am having crashes- Below is the top few lines of the Crash report- Dose it meaan anything to you?? Thanks--Jay-- Date/Time: 2007-12-11 01:11:27.301 -0600 OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165) Report Version: 4 Command: Final Cut Pro Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Proby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHey Michael-- Thanks for the info - - I am going to look some more to see if I can find some more info on uninstallers - I have not found much so far- I a hour or 2 if I cant find uninstaller from apple - I will try the Applett -- or I might go for a spin on my bike it is around 70 F here in Austin tonight perfect for riding- I am perty much computer Frrazzled at the momenby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHey Michael -- Thanks for Help and Time I found this earlier before I asked for further help from you From what I can understand this is only for QT 6 and below - It says that Later versions MAY have a Uninstaller in the install software Somewhere I guess is what they mean- hard to say what they really mean - Very unclear -- I have not been able to find else on Uninstaller -by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHey Derek-- Thanks for your Help- I will use the plan you laid out -- Thanks for your time -- Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHi Derek Thanks for the help - I will try the things you list - - I have tried All of the normal Fixes - My deadline for this project is Toast - Ouch - So backing up this project is not necessary now- What would be your suggestion on the Best way to getting FCP stable again - Uninstall FCP and start with Clean install ?? something else ?? Derek--Thanks for your Help -by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHi Michael Can you you send me a link to instructions on How to reinstall QT -- I have not been able to find them online so far - I have not done that before and I dont want to screw it up - My system is real unstable right now - I can occasionally get a export to work sommewhat- Super slow render times stock H264 - 20 seconds- 30 minute render and the file glitches Exportingby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHi All I can not export using QT movie or anything else - I am Stuck- I have been trying to fix this for 6 solid days and have gotten No where- Each time I try to export the file gets made into a H264 file at data rates from 800 k to 1.9 mb per second Even when using QT movie export - I have searched the forum and have not found the answer- Please Please Help --I am stuck --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA FCP crashes on Export using QT Conversion - 16 years agoHi All I am using FCP 5.1.4 - QT 7.3 Dual 2 gig G5 -2.5 gigs ram 2 internal drives 1 OWC 800 FWD I have done All of the Apple software updates -- 2 minute timeline Has one track of Green screen 5 jpegs pictures 5 tracks text 1 track DV Cam D25 video ( Stock mini DV) nothing real complected in the timeline First thing that happened is when I tried to save I get A - File Error Messby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA 20 V 1 tracks - OucH - 16 years agoHi All - I just had a Wacky thing happen- All of a sudden I had 20 V1 tracks show up on my time line- It looked really crazy -- I had just imported some large jpegs but I am not sure if they had anything to do with the problem -- After resetting permissions and a few other maintenance things and them not working - So I trashed my FCP preferences - and Bang it fixed the problemby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: H264 Accelerator - 16 years agoThanks Michael I was thinking it sounded to good to be true - But after reading the link info I am going to get one - Thanks - - Jay --by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: dropped frames in canvas, okay in viewer - 16 years agoHi Cheryl Make sure that your Canvas is set to-- Fit to Window -- and not zoomed in- If the canvas its zoomed at all you will get dropped frames --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA H264 Accelerator - 16 years agoHi al I just read about this in a magazine - It is a H264 Accelerator that looks like a thumb drive and plugs into a usb2 outlet on your mac-- Its supposed to cut H264 render time in half or less -- any body used one of these ?? http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Accessories/Turbo264/product1.en.htmlby Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA Re: Cannot get Green Canvas to Black - 16 years agoClick on the green window and then hit Shift W a couple of times- Watch the green screen It will change colors several times- when it gets to the correct color just stop clicking- there are 3 different color screens --Jay--by Jay Beeson 1 - Café LA |
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