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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?
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.
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.)
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..
Kevin, thanks a ton for trying! I really appreciate it.
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?
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?
Le nubian, I can find someone who does. But let me know what software you're using to do it first, and maybe I can find an equivalent on the PC to make it a quicktime movie. Otherwise, I'll coerce a local mac friend to do it.
Thanks for helping!
Yesterday, I started assembling my new computer, and so far, so good! I've got Windows XP installed and am currently formatting the other 1TB HD (formatting these huge-ass HDs is wicked slow!).
It's almost been going TOO well... The only glitch thus far has been a bad floppy drive cable. Surely, something else will go wrong any time now....
In other news, the entire channel lineup of my RCN cable tv changed yesterday, but the TiVo didn't pick up on it in time. I flipped on the TV at 8:30 expecting to watch SCC, and got MTV Jamz instead (Chuck was similarly screwed). By the time I reran guided setup to get the correct channels, it was after 9pm, so no Heroes for me either. I'm doing a lot of ahemming this AM.
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