I got it back, woo! It was because I changed from NTSC to PAL in the iMovie options, then closed and reopened it - it completely messed up the clips, for some reason. I changed it back, and tada - all is right again.
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Kevin - Dec 15, 2008 7:49:18 am PST #8363 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Wolfram - Dec 15, 2008 8:22:49 am PST #8364 of 25501
Visilurking
I give up.
I have a website link that ends in .asx that plays a streaming video that's about 3.5 hours long. I am trying to download and save as a video file a 5 minute piece of that stream. Can anyone recommend the best/easiest/dummyproofiest/free way to do this? I will download/install any free software necessary. I am running Windows XP. Thanks.
omnis_audis - Dec 15, 2008 8:23:51 am PST #8365 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
there is a frame rate difference between NTSC and PAL. So changing that pref would effect where the edits were. So if the software says "this clips starts at 12 min 3 sec 10 frames", that could be at two completely different locations, hence "completely messed up the clips".
Kudos to you for finding that! I wouldn't have thought of it off the top of my head, as I never really change that pref.
Kevin - Dec 15, 2008 8:44:58 am PST #8366 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
omnis, the weird this is that the video I'm editing actually *is* PAL, that's why I changed the iMovie options. But iMovie only appears to work properly for me in NTSC, so I've had to leave it like that.
Wolfram, do you have a link to the file you're trying to download?
omnis_audis - Dec 15, 2008 8:59:59 am PST #8367 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
that is curious Kevin. I think iMovie imports rather then just edits. I'm guessing it converted it to NTSC when you first imported the video. When did you initially change the preference? Before importing? Before editing? Just curious. The one thing I'm not a fan of with iMovie is, it keeps all your 'clips' there, like iPhoto. I'd rather each project it's own, and not have the GUI confused with past imports from the camera.
Wolfram - Dec 15, 2008 9:03:21 am PST #8368 of 25501
Visilurking
Kevin: [link]
I'm really just trying to get the stream from 03:05:50 to 03:10:10. (It's a friend of mine playing on the chabad telethon.)
Kevin - Dec 15, 2008 1:12:20 pm PST #8369 of 25501
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Wolfram, I've spent a while trying to rip that video with mplayer/mencoder and failed. It normally works, I've done it before, but mplayer is not liking that file..
Wolfram - Dec 15, 2008 2:22:55 pm PST #8370 of 25501
Visilurking
Kevin, thanks a ton for trying! I really appreciate it.
le nubian - Dec 15, 2008 4:27:58 pm PST #8371 of 25501
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Wolfram,
it looks like I can save it on a mac. If I let it play I can save it as a quicktime movie - using firefox and a firefox plugin.
Do you have access to a mac?
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2008 6:21:12 pm PST #8372 of 25501
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Hubby runs Firefox 3.0.3 on Vista, and whenever he opens his computer, he gets a box that wants to connect to Broadband. He has turned off his wireless connection, and this box also pops up on a regular basis while he's working on the Net on a wired connection. He wants to get rid of this box. What options should he be looking at?