[Don Greening]

Oops! Kathlyn……..not Kathleen.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Kathleen beat me to it. I was at http://www.chicagospots.com checking out Bill O’Neil’s iPod spoof called: “Smithe Garage Band”

Here’s two links, one for the site’s gallery page and one for the actual .wmv video file:

https://www.chicagospots.com/gallery.htm

https://www.chicagospots.com/movies/smithe.wmv

Mr. O’Neil was the guest on a previous CreativeCow podcast. I’m sure if you contacted him he’d be more than willing to help out a star of the Cow forums.

– Don

[Don Greening]

You’re Welcome
You’re Welcome
You’re Welcome
etc, etc.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Typo: Should be “MPEG Streamclip”

[Don Greening]

I found something for you, Harry.

Google the app “MPEG Sstreamclip”. It’s a demuxing program and it’s free.

And read the thread at the link below. Some more info about demuxing there.

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?univpostid=882544&forumid=8&postid=882544&pview=t

– Don

[Don Greening]

[HaryBull] “What exactly does “muxed” mean?”

It’s an abbreviation of the term “multiplexing” which means the audio and video is merged into one file. You need to “demux” your file into separate audio and video tracks. There are programs out there that do this task all the time. I just can’t think of any at the moment. Perhaps someone else will help out by giving you the names of some of those apps. I’m pretty sure there are some shareware programs out there that do this.

– DOn

[Don Greening]

I’m running OS 10.4.2 and FCP 5.0.4. No issues. I haven’t upgraded to OS 10.4.4 for the reasons you’ve stated. Just don’t upgrade in the middle of anything.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Jeff,

Point taken. Dell says they still make CRT’s but a quick look at their website didn’t turn up any. Anyway, it might be worth a look to find out how they stack up comparatively with the past makers of industry standard colour accurate CRT monitors such as LaCie. I do know that Dell have really been pushing their displays recently and extolling thier virtues, etc.

I also know that LaCie still sell displays but I didn’t see any CRT’s at their website. Sorry for not being as helpful as I thought I was.

Good luck.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Kieran,

Keep in mind that I have no proof that the iTunes Helper program within iTunes v.6.0.2 is the actual culprit, but since it’s not in v.6.0.1 the logical conclusion is that it may be what’s causing Disk Utility to crash when repairing permissioins. Since I don’t have iTunes 6.0.2 anymore I can’t run a test to see if turning off ITunes Helper within iTunes would fix things for Disk Utility.

– Don

[Don Greening]

If you haven’t checked out Apple’s cinema displays recently, do yourself a favour and get yourself over to the nearest Apple retailer. These flat panels are suitable for colour accuracy/calibrations duties. They take up a whole lot less desk space than CRT’s and the picture is wonderful. Flat panels have come a long way in the last few years.

Also check out the wide aspect displays at Dell computer. There are a lot of FCP editiors out there that use the Dell 24″ and swear by them. The Dell 24″ is also substantially less money than the comparable 23″ Apple Cinema Display and some in the FCP forum say the picture is better. I think it boils down to personal preference.

Here’s a link to the Dell monitor page:

https://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&category_id=4058

Hope this helps.

– Don