Let me jump on that pulpit too . Do not despair, John. You do have the better system. I just don't have any idea what the problem was. So many variables - and DVDs are pretty finicky as to where they choose to play.
Some day it'll be standardized. Jan On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 08:28 AM, John Robinson wrote: > Don, > > Your comment: "I was told MAC was the best for digital video, but I'm > not so sure" may be an understandable statement if your first out of > the box experience is not what you expected, but really read what I > have said concerning my kids. > > They don't know the first thing about a computer. Really. I have to > maintain it for them, I just gave them a firewire drive to backup all > their work, they are not experienced at anything other than "using" a > machine, yet they are so proficient that they are in charge of doing > these productions for their son's football team, senior night at their > school for those that are graduating (with many in the audience), > several weddings, etc. etc. > > I assure you that if they were trying to put together several programs > in the Windows world that could match what iLife4 can do they would > give it up. > > Just this week I went to the McAfee Virex site for info. on the new > virus and inside the site they had a page that explained there were > CURRENTLY 81,000 known exposures out there, in addition to the many > hoaxes. Just how many of the 81,000 affect the MAC? A few years ago > when I checked into the Symantic antivirus list of dangers there were > less than 40, for all time. > > if nothing else, just this one item, would keep me from going to the > Windows world. At my work we use Windows, what a mess. We are down > every single week, we have more problems that you can fathom and the > company employees ten of thousands of programmers and they just can't > keep it going and we do get most every virus. > > Sorry for the sermon, but in the deepest of analysis, there is really > only one choice for those of us who don't have the time or expertise > to learn and spend hour upon hour trying to just maintain the system. > > John R. > > > On Jan 31, 2004, at 11:55 PM, Don Meredith wrote: > >> Thanks John for the reply. I just assumed the problem was on my end, >> since there were no other response. I'll continued to test several >> ways to create DVDs. I was told MAC was the best for digital video, >> but now I'm not so sure. >> >> Again, thanks very much for your reponse, >> >> don >> >> John Robinson wrote: >> >>> Don, >>> >>> Possibly there was no response as no one else had a problem. My >>> kids use this extensively, I mean daily, so much so it is developing >>> into a business for them. They are making several of these a week >>> and have been using the iLife4. I have watched several of their >>> productions and there has been no sound problem. If others are >>> experiencing the same success that may account for the silence. I >>> wish I had something to contribute, but so far nothing. >>> >>> Have you checked the knowledge base at Apple? >>> >>> John R. >>> On Jan 31, 2004, at 11:38 AM, <meredon3 at bellsouth.net> wrote: >>> >>>> thanks for your response. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> From: Don Meredith <meredon3 at bellsouth.net> >>>>> Date: 2004/01/29 Thu PM 08:02:40 EST >>>>> To: MacGroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>>> Subject: MacGroup: Sound Trouble in Imovie >>>>> >>>>> Anybody out there having sound trouble with IDVD output from >>>>> IMOVIE? I >>>>> edited a MOVIE and discovered some of the sound did not record. >>>>> Seems >>>>> like everything was fine except the recorded sound from a hand held >>>>> mike. This is the strange part......it plays fine when I replay >>>>> it on >>>>> MAC G4. But when I play the DVD on the player with the TV - the >>>>> voices >>>>> are silent. I tried changing the TV to MONO.....same results. >>>>> Any ideas out there? >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> >>>>> DOn >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>>> | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>>> | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
