Chuck Reti
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“How Video Works” by Diana Weynand and Marcus Weise Amazon.com link. may be what you’re looking for.
The extensive catalog at Focal Press is also worth a good long look. -
The “3D Picture Trick”
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[raju] “It sounds like a problem with Mac OS”
It sounds more like an Avid (or other third party)-installed kernel extension may have gotten lost in the new OS install process
(I don’t have “DigiDal.kext” file on any non-Avid Mac I use, so I’m guessing it’s not part of an OS X install).
When you installed Tiger, if you did an “Archive and Install,” which creates a “Previous System” folder, it could be hiding in there, and easily dropped back into the correct folder (administrator password required).
Otherwise a re-install of Avid might have to do do the job. -
[Rennie] “when I went to open the tray the silver curtain on the G5 case opened and the tray started to come out but then it hit the top of the openning on the G5 case. I took the burner out and compared to the old one and sure enough the tray is 1/8th” thicker than the old drive.”
I bought my DVR-111 from OWC (Other World Computing). They thoughtfully included a sheet instructing users installing it in certain G4’s and all G5’s how to pop off the front door (so it will clear the front doors) and how to properly install it in these towers. They also have online instructions and video for installation of this drive in various Macs. Think it was around $50 or so in July. Just posting this as a repeatedly satisfied OWC customer.
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In what program? Safari, Firefox, other?
In many instances, if you click and hold down on the “magnifying glass” search icon in the search entry field, a pulldown menu appears and the last item should be “clear recent searches” or “clear menu.” -
quick links:
Tektronix “PAL Video Measurement” (PDF doc)
Tektronix “NTSC Video Measurements” (excellent guide to video measurement, relevant in many ways to PAL) -
[JeremyG] “Bob is right on the money in that zipping a file helps to reduce file transfer errors between systems and platforms when sending through the web.”
Right. I’d forgotten about that advantage; it also helps getting past gateways/firewalls at some sites that block files with an image or motion video file extension.
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[jmf] “In the past movies could not be zipped or stuffed. Has any utility changed this fact?”
If a movie is in an already compressed format (MPEG etc), further data compression will usually not reduce fhe file’s size, and sometimes even makes it somewhat larger. So, they always could be zipped/stuffed, but to no benefit.
[JeremyG] “…mac OS. right click (control click) on a movie file and choose ‘create archive of…””
Which simply creates a .zip file.
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[emy fehmi] “An iMac with tray loading optical slot. It does not have firewire.”
System Requirements for Panther and Tiger on G3 iMacs specify slot-load optical drive and built-in FireWire.
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How old an iMac, which version?
If it doesn’t have FireWire, I don’t believe you’ll get anywhere.
Depending on age, a firmware update may be necessary before proceeding.
Is the OS X CD (OS X 10.?.?, just curious) a retail box, or one that came with another machine (which generally won’t work)?