Moving digital video to Mac
Hi video gurus, I'm trying to do one of the following: - capture an HDMI signal into a Macbook Pro or Air, - capture an S-Video or composite video connection the same way Available ports: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800 Internet alludes to it but I haven't found a commercial adaptor or cable yet. Thanks for any feedback, DD -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Moving digital video to Mac
The best video capture option for you depends a lot on what you want to do with the video. Several Elgato USB TV receivers have composite and S-video video capture such as the EyeTV Hybrid which is great for capturing video directly into the EyeTV software in MPEG-2 format for burning directly to DVD with Toast without having to transcode: http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/tuner/hybrid08/product1.en.html Or go for the dedicated Elgato Video Capture: http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/Video-Capture/product1.en.html A cheaper option is the XLR8 Proview USB which is QuickTime compatible and works with any QuickTime compatible software. We have bought about 40 of these at Curtin: http://daystar-store.com/xlr8proviewusbfullscreenvideocapturepackageforusb20.aspx We've also bought many Canopus ADVC FireWire video capture units over the years - the ADVC 55 is a good cheap model, great if you want to use apps like iMovie to edit native DV format. http://www.grassvalley.com/products/advc55 HDMI video capture tends to be quite expensive while there are lots of USB and FireWire video capture options. -Mart On 11/09/2011, at 2:46 PM, David de la Hunty da...@visionary.iinet.net.au wrote: Hi video gurus, I'm trying to do one of the following: - capture an HDMI signal into a Macbook Pro or Air, - capture an S-Video or composite video connection the same way Available ports: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800 Internet alludes to it but I haven't found a commercial adaptor or cable yet. Thanks for any feedback, DD -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Moving digital video to Mac
or if you can spend a little money there is this from a great company :) http://www.blackmagic-design.com/au/products/ultrastudio3d/ Best regards Roger On 11/09/2011, at 2:46 PM, David de la Hunty wrote: Hi video gurus, I'm trying to do one of the following: - capture an HDMI signal into a Macbook Pro or Air, - capture an S-Video or composite video connection the same way Available ports: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800 Internet alludes to it but I haven't found a commercial adaptor or cable yet. Thanks for any feedback, DD -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Internet application warning won't go away
Hi all, I just set-up my laptop for our coming holiday I also ended up re-installing Dropbox - but now I keep getting the warning about Dropbox being an application downloaded from the internet - I expect to get this message the FIRST time I open it after downloading - but it keeps coming up everytime I start-up and dropbox launches. Any ideas? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Internet application warning won't go away
On 11/09/2011, at 4:12 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I just set-up my laptop for our coming holiday I also ended up re-installing Dropbox - but now I keep getting the warning about Dropbox being an application downloaded from the internet - I expect to get this message the FIRST time I open it after downloading - but it keeps coming up everytime I start-up and dropbox launches. Any ideas? Hi Neil, Did you click ‘Yes’ the first time you received this warning? If so you can disable that warning, per-item or permanently. Using the Terminal, Snow Leopard (10.6) users can enter this command, substituting ~/Downloads (the Downloads folder inside the user folder) for whatever file or folder where they'd like to prevent future download warnings. Firstly upgrade to the latest version of Dropbox. If that doesn't work, try running the following code in a Terminal window. xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Dropbox.app Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Looking for graphic designer to work on an iPad project
Steven That would be good, do send me his details off list. Homework rates sounds good too. Cheers, G. On 10/09/2011, at 3:57 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Hi Glen My cousin's a graphic designer. He's in the UK though that's never affected anything. Something he's done recently for me is the booklet found at: http://alpha1.org.au/doc/AAAbrochure.pdf .. including the logo design. I've had him design a few logs actually, including the one you see at www.you-global.com. However he'd have a more comprehensive portfolio he could send you. I've no idea whether he's done animation or not, but if interested I'll send you his details offline. He works full time as a graphic designer, with the company charging the usual corporate rates, but if I refer you to him personally it'll be a 'homework' project at substantially cheaper rates. Cheers, Steven On 10/09/2011, at 5:14 PM, Glen Low wrote: Hi All I'm looking for a good graphic designer to work on a new iPad project. It will mostly be designing icons and small graphic objects, preference for actual illustrators who made skeuomorphic interfaces or comic books or who are into photography. It may involve some minimal animation, so if that's on your resume it would be good too.The app will be fun and I'm sure you'll enjoy working on it! Best if you have some samples of your work online or can send me some samples over email. I won two Apple Design Awards in 2004 for my Mac OS X work, and my app Instaviz has been in the App Store since December 2008, so this is a bona fide offer. Check out instaviz.com. Cheers Glen Low Pixelglow Software http://instaviz.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Repaired permissions again and again
Hi everyone. I hope you were all out there in the sunshine today and not glued to a computer! I decided to Repair Permissions, so I restarted into Recovery and repaired permissions a lot of them. So I did it again, and again there were just as many, so did it again, and again! Four times, and each time there were a bundle of permissions to repair. So I gave up and went to the beach. Should this happen? How many times is reasonable? Or should I have restarted in Recovery and tried again? Lloyd -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Repaired permissions again and again
This article might be helpful Lloyd. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 It seems that to expect NIL Errors is just not going to happen. Given this list at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 is quite long, plus they are safe to ignore, it would seem a pity that Apple hasn't tagged or flagged these, so that non expert users, ie most of us, would know the task is done when there are no permissions errors. Tim On 11/09/2011, at 7:33 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone. I hope you were all out there in the sunshine today and not glued to a computer! I decided to Repair Permissions, so I restarted into Recovery and repaired permissions – a lot of them. So I did it again, and again there were just as many, so did it again, and again! Four times, and each time there were a bundle of permissions to repair. So I gave up and went to the beach. Should this happen? How many times is reasonable? Or should I have restarted in Recovery and tried again? Lloyd -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Repaired permissions again and again
Boot from the recovery partition (command-R at startup) and repair permissions. You don't mention what errors you are receiving Lloyd. You'll always get error messages from it -- normally ok to ignore them as long as you see Repair Permissions Complete. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/09/2011, at 8:06 PM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: This article might be helpful Lloyd. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 It seems that to expect NIL Errors is just not going to happen. Given this list at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 is quite long, plus they are safe to ignore, it would seem a pity that Apple hasn't tagged or flagged these, so that non expert users, ie most of us, would know the task is done when there are no permissions errors. Tim On 11/09/2011, at 7:33 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone. I hope you were all out there in the sunshine today and not glued to a computer!. I decided to Repair Permissions, so I restarted into Recovery and repaired permissions – a lot of them. So I did it again, and again there were just as many, so did it again, and again! Four times, and each time there were a bundle of permissions to repair. So I gave up and went to the beach. Should this happen? How many times is reasonable? Or should I have restarted in Recovery and tried again? Lloyd -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Further details about iPad Apps
Hi Ian, Apple puts out a document called the Human Interface Guidelines, or HIG for short. It has rules that all interface developers must follow. When it comes to toolbar icons there is a very short list of standard icons that are provided in the development kit and the rest are created by individual developers. The HIG does place restrictions on the size of the icons, and the format and contrast of the images, but each developer that produces an app is pretty much free to choose icons. Apple polices all apps and will reject an app that is misleading so developers tend to try to make the images suggestive of the task that the button will perform. The main guide in this area is the powerful set of apps produced by Apple itself -- Number, Pages, Keynote, iMove, iPod, etc. When developers want an idea for an icon they quite often check to see how Apple solved a similar problem. So a subset of icons have become de facto standards for particular tasks. I will put together a list of common icons over the next few days and post back to the group when it is done. I would do it now but I have some pressing preparation to do for classes on Monday and Tuesday. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-09-11, at 21:33, Ian Reid wrote: Thanks Carlo for the details of Apps mentioned on Tuesday night. I am now hoping that you can also help me with an iPad matter that I have Googled unsuccessfully - a list of the meanings of the tiny buttons or graphics at the head or foot of iPad screens. With advancing age, and unfortunately I join the official demographic group of 'Frail Elderly' in a couple of weeks, short term memory becomes a problem and I stupidly keep forgetting some of them. I would very much like to have a cheat-sheet on my desk. I assume Apple puts out a list of them for developers. Can I access such a list. Regards Ian -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Internet application warning won't go away
On 11/09/2011, at 4:12 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I just set-up my laptop for our coming holiday I also ended up re-installing Dropbox - but now I keep getting the warning about Dropbox being an application downloaded from the internet - I expect to get this message the FIRST time I open it after downloading - but it keeps coming up everytime I start-up and dropbox launches. Any ideas? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com I almost hesitate to ask, but... you're not running the app from a disk image by any chance, are you? This can happen if you somehow managed to install the app as an alias rather than an actual copy. It's about the only explanation I can think of which accounts for that behaviour. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Repaired permissions again and again
Thanks Tim and Ronni, I read the article and am now happier. At least it is not my particular iMac! Lloyd This article might be helpful Lloyd. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 It seems that to expect NIL Errors is just not going to happen. Given this list at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 is quite long, plus they are safe to ignore, it would seem a pity that Apple hasn't tagged or flagged these, so that non expert users, ie most of us, would know the task is done when there are no permissions errors. Tim On 11/09/2011, at 7:33 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone. I hope you were all out there in the sunshine today and not glued to a computer! I decided to Repair Permissions, so I restarted into Recovery and repaired permissions a lot of them. So I did it again, and again there were just as many, so did it again, and again! Four times, and each time there were a bundle of permissions to repair. So I gave up and went to the beach. Should this happen? How many times is reasonable? Or should I have restarted in Recovery and tried again? Lloyd -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Internet application warning won't go away
Hi Peter ( Hi Ronni for previous response), I think I have got to the bottom of this - bear with the preamble - I get to the point eventually ;o) Since I hadn't used the laptop for some while, I decided on an erase and clean install of OSX - which I did - setting up a computer admin account which I do on all my computers - I leave this as a clean account to fall back on for any troubleshooting. Then, in preparation for the trip, a migration of my user account from my iMac and a migration of Georgie's user account from her iMac. My iMac runs Snow Leopard but the laptop and Geoorgie's G5 iMac both run Leopard (I need to install more RAM before putting SL on the laptop). The idea was I would transfer user data, applications, settings etc from my iMac and then just user data for Georgie from her iMac. Migration assistant worked perfectly (as expected) for the transfer between the two Leopard machines - messages that made sense, time estimates that made sense and progress bars that showed, well, progress. Migration assistant, however, really didn't work well doing the transfer from the SL iMac to the laptop. I selected the options I wanted OK but it told me that the data to transfer was 0kb (or Mb I don't really remember) and rapidly progressed to one minute remaining, spinning barber pole progress bar - where it stayed for the requisite hours it took to transfer some 80 GB of user data. User data seemed to transfer OK - but no applications - so I went ahead and installed all the applications manually (plus all the relevant application updates :o( Now, getting to the point, I installed the applications while logged in as Computer admin - including Dropbox. However, once everything was installed, updated, permissions repaired (again) and backed up, I then logged in as me to my user account, to start working and it was while logged in to this account (my main user account) that I would have launched Dropbox and kept getting the warnings. This eventually occurred to me and on checking get info on the dropbox account only computer admin had read/write permission for the application - so I thought that write access to the app might be needed to reset the warning flag?? (I don't really know how this works - but it seemed possible!) So (in get info) I added my user name to the applications permissions and gave myself read/write permission. At first it seemed nothing had changed but after a relaunch of dropbox and a reboot of the computer, the warnings seem to have gone :o)) So, I'm not really sure if it was my fix that fixed it - but anyway it seems fixed Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/9/11 7:25 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 11/09/2011, at 4:12 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I just set-up my laptop for our coming holiday I also ended up re-installing Dropbox - but now I keep getting the warning about Dropbox being an application downloaded from the internet - I expect to get this message the FIRST time I open it after downloading - but it keeps coming up everytime I start-up and dropbox launches. Any ideas? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com I almost hesitate to ask, but... you're not running the app from a disk image by any chance, are you? This can happen if you somehow managed to install the app as an alias rather than an actual copy. It's about the only explanation I can think of which accounts for that behaviour. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
