Thank you David, hope to, wonder if any of us have changed! HA.
On Apr 20, 2012, at 9:56 PM, David Harker wrote: > sounds like you got it figured out, congrats! and have a great time > at the 50th!! > > On 4/20/12, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you Bill, what a nice thing to say. I hope all goes well, will be >> happy when it's over and know if it went well. >> >> John >> >> >> On Apr 20, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Bill Micou wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
