Chuck Reti
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[Sean ONeil] “Doesn’t it allow Spotlight to work the way it does? “
No. Nothing to do with Spotlight.
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Like the Undead, it’s baaaack….
and now, to make sure Mr or Ms Right shows up on shoot day, they want “only the best,”
so enough from you wannabes out there with the potatoes and the deviled eggs.
Me, I’ll bring a nice broccoli and cheese casserole (with cornflake topping).https://atlanta.craigslist.org/tfr/407709609.htm
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As was stated in this thread at the FCP forum, if you’re going to use iPhoto to do the “contact sheet” layouts, also use iPhoto’s editing capability to desaturate the pictures to B&W before printing. Or,
Way #2- In a simple going-over of the basic “Print” dialog box, you will see three pulldown menus.
Top one allows you to select which printer you’re going to print to.Second one allows you to choose between different printing presets you may set up, like “Standard,” a draft mode, oddball paper size, Black and White, etc. without having to go through many items each time in the third pulldown menu…
Third pulldown presents ten or more aspects of the print job that can be changed from the defaults. The one of interest to you is “ColorSync.” Select it, the ColorSync selections appear. Use the second pulldown menu “Quartz Filter” to select “Black and White.” Hop up to the Presets pulldown and select ‘Save As…” Then you’ll have a B&W preset at easy reach for next time.
Not really sure that there’s much savings to be had. Many inkjets now use the color inks along with the black to create a greyscale image even in B&W mode.
The best and cheapest way in the long run to print B&W, especially in large volume, is to get a laser printer. Always prints B&W, toner cartridges are really cheap when cost is spread over the number of printed pages they yield, especially compared to the ripoff prices for inkjet cartridges, and recycled, refilled cartridges are even cheaper. Some “personal” laser printers can be had in the hundred-dollar range, but typically $200-300 depending on make and features. Just seems like a no-brainer if the cost of printing ink is an issue, and it immediately solves the color/BW print issue too.
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Launch iPhoto
File>”Add photos to library” to import images
Print
Style>Contact Sheet or Standard Ptints -
[beb850] “aid to select each Frame by using the short cut CTRL-CMND-4.
I could not get this to do anything, nor did I know where it would be headed.”
Shift-CMD-4 (not CTL-CMD-4) will allow you to drag-select whatever is on screen and upon release of the mouse, “snaps” a picture of that and puts it on your desktop. You’d still have to get it into another program to arrange and print.
Since you don’t have Photoshop available, but you do have iPhoto, try this..
Select and export your still frames in FCP. Open iPhoto. Either drag your FCP-made stills into iPhoto’s window, or use CMD-O (letter O not zero) or File>Add to Library to import these stills into iPhoto.
Since client insists on B+W you have to edit individually by using the “adjust” function and zero out Saturation slider for each. PITA but that’s what he wants (If your printer can easily be set for non-color printing do that instead when you get to printing step below).From the iPhoto window, multi-select a few images, six or eight to try out. Go to File>Print.
From the “Style” pulldown, select “Contact Sheet” and use the slider to select however many images you want on a single 8×10 sheet. Print page, or Preview, to see if that’s what you’re after. You can select a large number of images and iPhoto will print however many pages you need to fill the request. Client should be able to slice and dice to his content. -
Copy the QT file (same folder or to another drive),. Open the copy in Quicktime Player (since you have FCS/FCP you have QTPro editing features). Mark an IN and an OUT, set “Trim to Selection” and Save, using some useful naming convention. Import the trimmed up file. It would be a good idea to leave sufficient handle on both ends. Of course you could do this to the original if you won’t ever need to recover trimmed out material.
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Use the Arrow keys to navigate to the item, hit Return or Enter. Text field is highlighted, waiting for your input. No mouse involved. Just like in Finder.
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Sounds like you have magnification (Zoom) turned on (System Prefs>Universal Access>Seeing>Zoom ON (CMD-OPT-8), with option of “Screen Moves With Pointer” set to On. If you still want to have the handy Zoom facility available, just make sure you’re zoomed Out all the way (CMD-OPT-minus sign)) so you don’t get the wandering desktop with mouse movement.
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First, in iTunes, create an audio file with which FCP will be happy (48kHz, 16bit).
In iTunes, go to Preferences>Advanced>Importing.
From “Import Using” pulldown, select “AIFF Encoder.”
From “Setting’ pulldown, select “Custom…”
In the resulting “AIFF Encoder” box, select desired numbers (48.000 kHz; 16 bit) with the Sample Rate and Sample Size pulldown menus.
In iTunes’ Library list, select the track of interest. Under main menubar “Advanced” select
“Convert Selection to AIFF.” Watch the progress bar in the info window. When it’s done you’ll hear the xylophone (marimba/vibraphone?) and you will see a duplicate entry in the Name column. Use “get info” to make sure which one is the new AIFF. Either drag it to desktop or a folder or FCP browser, or select it and ctrl-click to “Reveal in Finder” and take it from there.
Of course, if the item in iTunes is a purchased (protected, m4p) track, iTunes will not allow the above process to proceed. -
This complaint has been registered since the original Mac 🙂
It’s supposed to be reassuring, not annoying. Also, if other sounds (chimes of death) immediately follow the startup sound, you’ll know something is very, very wrong.
If you must mute your MBP, a freeware Pref Pane called, oddly, “Startup Sound” is available.
It basically turns down the master volume control to a user-preferred level at shutdown, and restores it to its previous level following startup. The Intel version is a Beta release; I’ve been using the PPC version for a long time.
Check Arcana Research site
https://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/BETA/index.en.html