Great info! Your class is very lucky to have you and your creative mind. Way to go. Bill
On Apr 20, 2012, at 5:49 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Once again I will be talking to a small audience I am sure but just in case > there would be someone out there that could use the info. I wanted to send. > > A week from tomorrow my wife and I have our 50 year class reunion, I have > been working a year to really put on a show for our classmates, more work > that you would care to hear. The last item was to make a movie, I had to > learn FinalCut X, Motion, Compressor, Color (build into FinalCut X) and I > attempted Logic but had to shelve it until after the class but I could do a > lot of the audio work inside FinalCut. > > For the group I will use a projector to a very large screen with Bose L1 > speakers for sound. I completed the movie just yesterday so now the trick > was to first see if I could get this to work with the projector. I am using > a Mini due to the HDMI output, then I will use the earbud outputs to the Bose > sound system, I wanted to be sure I could do this and the sound didn't > attempt to go out the HDMI cable. No one at Apple had ever tried it but they > all thought it would work. > > So this morning I hooked everything up and this is what I wanted to tell the > group. The HDMI would do the video, the sound would go to the BOSE, so I was > elated, however I could NOT get the video to play on the screen. I could see > other items on the large screen but no movie. After setting up the > resolutions for the projector I turned on mirroring and everything would show > up but the video. What the heck? > > I disconnected everything from the projector and moved it to a flatscreen > thinking there may be a setting in the projector I didn't know about. Nope, > same thing on the flatscreen. > > I spent forever and by accident I found the problem. WHEN you are running a > movie in Quicktime, at least under the setup I was using, you have to change > to FULL SCREEN (In Lion), the screen rolls around and there is your video. > Take it off Full screen and you are back to whatever is on your desktop, be > it a spreadsheet, iTunes, etc. etc. but watching a movie in Quicktime > REQUIRES FULL SCREEN to work. > > Maybe there is a setting I couldn't figure out but no need this works > perfect. You can't control the volume with your keyboard using Fullscreen, > that takes you out of fullscreen and your video is gone (hidden) but you can > use a Front Row remote to control the Mini, including the sound, and it > doesn't alter your video at all. > > I will film more at the Alumni Banquet, our party after the banquet at a > local restaurant, then I will film the big party Saturday night. When all > this is done I will add this to what I will show my classmates, end with a > section about our families (many of the group have sent me their entire > family photo's) and THEN I will burn a DVD which I will mail to everyone in > the class so they won't have to mess with this, they can just play the DVD > but for me using it Saturday night I had to figure a way to play this in > Quicktime. Turns out it's pretty cool. > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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