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Matthew Cook
August 4, 2010 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Capturing With Canon HV20

Thanks, guys! Trashing prefs did the trick.
Matthew Cook
January 24, 2009 at 4:57 pm in reply to: OT Happy 25th Birthday Macintosh!

It’s the Brave Little Toaster!

I still have my 1985 Mac+ up in the attic.
Matthew Cook
January 16, 2009 at 2:38 pm in reply to: Compression and DVD creation

The first time you tell it to ‘build and format’. Pay attention to where you put the folder for the build. The next time you just tell it to ‘format’ and point it at the folder with the build in it. Mine always comes up with that folder selected. I don’t think you can tell it to make multiple copies so there are a couple clicks for each one. Toast may be faster, I don’t know.

If I click ‘Build and Format’ a second time, mine asks me if I want to reuse the existing build–so if I make a change it doesn’t take nearly as long to process.
Matthew Cook
January 16, 2009 at 12:09 am in reply to: Compression and DVD creation

I’ve made multiple copies this way. It’s only the first one that requires muxing. After that you use the same files and it goes much faster.
Matthew Cook
December 19, 2008 at 2:42 pm in reply to: Leopard not installing?

This is my wife’s computer. I’m trying to save what she has set up already. If it was me using it I would have noticed it was running on Tiger before now.

I’ve gotten further with this though. Our two MacBooks are slightly different models–and the install discs are model specific. I looked through her box o’ stuff that came from Apple and she had a Leopard Upgrade drop-in DVD. I used that to upgrade her system—and now her Mail is all wonky. It opens without opening a Mail Viewer, when I manually open a viewer her saved messages don’t show up, it won’t check mail, etc. It won’t respond to the Quit command. Her saved mail is all in the correct place in the Library and her preferences all look right. I can’t seem to find a way to just install Mail so I suppose I’m going to have to reinstall Leopard all over again to try to straighten it out.

Just for giggles, I used the Leopard drop-in DVD on another Mac and everything worked just fine.
Matthew Cook
December 15, 2008 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Formatting Questions

Thank you!

I’m trying to deliver HD for broadcast purposes and SD for DVD as many of my fans don’t have HD players. I’ve found ways to export my sequences as both HD and SD. Is this just pointless? Would I get better results in both cases if I just work in SD?

One problem I’ve been encountering is that if I zoom in too far on the DV footage it looks like crap.
Matthew Cook
December 12, 2008 at 3:07 pm in reply to: FCP export to Compressor3

I’m far from an expert—but I think what was suggested is to export a Quicktime movie and open that in Compressor. That’s the first option in the export menu.