Hi Darcy, Looks like my Mac ignorance is definitely showing.
At 01:30 PM 3/30/05 -0500, you wrote: >A little more detail would be nice. iBook or PowerBook? What model? I have no idea. I didn't know there was a difference in the video connectors. It had a white Apple logo and she got it for Christmas. >I believe most video projectors can take an S-video cable. Some also >take DVI. They provided a projector, power cord, remote control, USB cable, standard VGA video cable, and pair of speakers (those we got hooked up). The usual venue complement for business presentations. >The 15" and 17" PowerBooks have an S-video out and a DVI out. Just >plug the S-video cable or DVI cable into both the PowerBook and the >projector, and the Mac will see the projector right away. >The 12" PowerBooks do not have S-video out, and they use a mini-DVI >port. However, they come with a mini-DVI-to-DVI adapter. You can also >buy a mini-DVI-to-S-video adapter. My girlfriend has a 12" PowerBook >and we use the mini-DVI-to-S-video adapter to play video content from >her laptop on our TV all the time. Again, it's plug-and-play. The Mac owner, as I said, just shrugged when I asked what to do. She watches DVDs on her laptop because she doesn't know how to hook it up to her TV, and there were no Apple users there. >Can PC laptops send video over USB? I've never heard of that, and >wasn't aware that was possible. I didn't really think so, but it was a connector that fit. I thought it might have been a Mac thing to send composite video out the USB port, maybe like the 1394 cable. Couldn't hurt to try. I know zero about Macs. >If you didn't know which cables to hook up, having a PC with you >probably wouldn't have helped matters. The venues always provide a VGA cable with the projector, but there was no place on the Mac laptop to plug the VGA cable in. I've only ever used PCs for projection, and there was never a connection issue. I thought they were all the same. Learned something new today the hard way! >What to do next time? Find out what method of *video* connection the >projector uses -- DVI, S-video, etc. -- and make sure you have the >right cables and/or adapters for that. So, alas, nothing could have saved the day today, then. :( That's what I suspected, so next time I'll make sure somebody brings a PC. Those I understand. (Or get a new laptop myself ... my poor old P100 1996 Compaq is too slow for DVDs). Very many thanks for the response, Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
