Auto Clip

Is there a way to make Final Cut Pro 5.1 automatically make clips like iMovie does while importing based on 'pause/resume, stop/resume' activity of the camcorder? I need the editing power of FCP but am disgusted at how long "log and capture" takes.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Look into CatDV + Live Capture Plus from Squarebox.com
It will do what you want.
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HDV auto clip

Hi to all,
I am working with 720p HDV fotage shot and captured from a JVC (110?) camera. The captured clips are automaticaly cropped at the begining and the end of every clip resulting in some very short / usless clips. It seems FCP detects the point at which the camera operator presses rec/stop and the subtracts pre-roll time from that. This is my first dance with HDV
1) Is typical of all HDV work flows or just this camera?
2) Is there a way to disable the auto detect (start/stop) function prior to capture? (re-capture)
3) Can I place a handle in front of auto-detected start/stop point on a clip? (ie: DV)
Thank you for your time, Eric

Thank you for your response. I read the article, so in review...
1) the footage shot on the JVC camera forces the start/stop detection.
2) Had the footage been shot with another manufacturers camera I could disable the start/stop detect.
3) Yes I could add handles to the head or tail of a clip with the start/stop detection disabled.
Thanks for your help
E

Disabling "auto" clipping masks in layers

Currently on my home mac - if I 'create a new fill or adjusment layer' it automatically selects 'use previous layer to create a clipping mask'
The only way I can stop this is by alt clicking on 'create a new fill or adjusment layer' which brings up the 'New Layer' dialogue box' and unticking the 'use previous layer to create a clipping mask' box. I have to do this everytime which is very annoying
I seem to have set this as the default. How can I set it back to it's normal default of not using the previous layer as a clipping mask (as it used to be and as my work version does as standard)
Thanks

»Clip to Layer« in the Adjustments Panel’s fly-out-menu?
And please read
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0

Auto Clip Resize

I'm using 1080p footage in a 720p sequence. I have 'Default scale to frame size' unchecked in preferences. (I unchecked it right after install.) For some reason it's doing it anyway. How can I stop this from happening and how can I reset the ones that are already in the timeline? I'm using Premiere Pro CS6
Thanks, Chip Simons

Thanks, Jim
I could have sworn I unchecked that box before I even created this project but I guess I didn't. I do have a follow up question since we are on the subject. Will I lose any quality by stretching them back out? Even though the Motion tab says they are at 100% I know that they are not so I wouldn't think it would hurt anything to just pull them out to 160% (or whatever true 100% is).
Thanks,Chip

Import splitting into hundreds of .3 second clips!

We have a Panasonic PV-D400D, and iMovie's last few versions have erroneously imported all video as tons of little .3 second clips. The way we got around this was to import as one single clip, not using the auto clip thing in iMovie. However, it looks like there is now no preference for that.
Am I out of luck? Is there a setting I'm missing? Anyone with such a camera know if there's a setting on the camera itself that is causing this problem?
Thanks!

Hi
Can't find Your Camera on the Web. So my thoughts:
To get this I would:
• record in LP-mode (90 min on a 60min tape)
• play it back on another Camera
• to a Mac with an exteral hard disk NOT Formatted as Mac OS Extended.
All this would give a non working situation. Changing them to
• SP-mode (60min)
• use same Camera as did the shooting
• import to internal hard disk (formatted Mac OS Extended) with 25Gb free space
would make it as easy as possibly.
Yours Bengt W

Automatically create clipping masks

Hello,
I was watching this amazing video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebVFXphyJqw
- and I noticed, that flash has a feature, that seems to automatically create clipping masks.
She starts using these at 1:45. She draws blue paths and applies gradients to shapes that use the blue paths but also underlying art.
I haven't figured out a quick way in illustrator to do it like this. (Draw path - divide - livepaint - new fill can produce such results, but thats too complicated for quick shading...)
Also there is a feature right at the beginning, where she erases segments of circular paths. They are exactly cut at the intersection points. Of course there are scissors and snapping in AI, but that method flash seems to offer looks much more convenient.
Maybe those functions are burrowed in some side menus in AI... I mean, I have Flash CS6, but I feel much more comfortable in AI.
If you know these features, especially the auto clipping mask thing, please tell me
-Andrej

Wow, the draw inside mode was also new to me. So much to learn!
It's a pity that it does not create merged clipping groups when having two objects selected simultaneously upon entering drawing inside mode.
I have not figured out, how to use the shapebuilder tool with single paths yet.
But I did try out the Pathfinder's outline operation. It seems to give me the seperated strokes I demanded.
Thanks for your help again Monika.
-Andrej

Preview in Browser and Adobe Browser Lab show website differently? Please help

Hi...working on my first website and I have a question about the differences in viewing the site through
choosing file...preview in browser....
from within Dreamweaver, and using the Adobe Browser Lab to view the website.
There seems to be a very significant difference between the two. When I preview firefox from within dreamweaver, my site is just how I want it.
When I go to browser lab, it is...well... a disaster.
I'm attaching screenshots of the two as well as my code, so it can show how different they are. Here is a screenshot of the website as it looks when I use the preview in browser function from within dreamweaver to view it in firefox. This is how I'd like it to look.
And here is a screenshot of what it looks like when I preview it in Adobe Browser Lab in Firefox.
The quote is underneath the logo, the left div text is flowing over the center div, the nav bar graphics are too narrow, the photo is hanging outside the div it should be contained in. Not what I want.
Does anyone have any insight into how I would fix this or which version is correct?
I'm stumped. This is my first website: shouldn't these two things be similar? And which one is correct?
and here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Your Career Direction Career and College Counseling</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style></head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
    <p class="clearfloat"><a href="#" id="Insert_logo2"><img src="images/YCD-logo-tag-RGB-web-SM.gif" alt="Insert Logo Here" name="Insert_logo" width="638" height="110" id="Insert_logo2" style="background: #FFF
    ; display:block;" /></a></p>
    <div id="Quote"><img src="images/quote.gif" alt="Choose a job you love" width="355" height="81"></div>
    <p class="clearfloat"> </p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar1">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Students</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Parents/Educators</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Professionals</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Bio/Contact</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Q & A Blog</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Testimonials</a></li>
    </ul>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <h8><strong>Your Career Direction</strong><br></h8>
    <h6>96 Harvard Avenue<br>
    Maplewood NJ 07040<br>
    [email protected]<br>
    (973) 996-0207</h6>
    <h7>© Your Career Direction, LLC, 2012<br>
</h7>
    <p> </p>
</div>
<div class="content">
    <h1><strong><img src="images/Whether-you-are.gif" width="266" height="48" alt="Whether you are"></strong></h1>
    <ul>
      <li><strong>Considering your college choices & career options</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Preparing for the world of work after college</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking a new position to further your career</strong></li>
      <li><strong>In-transition and considering new opportunities</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career</strong> <strong>change</strong></li>
    </ul>
    <p> </p>
    <h1><img src="images/One-thing-is-for-sure.gif" width="310" height="38" alt="One thing is for sure"></h1>
    <p>We all need to direct our own careers, our own lives!</p>
<p>Given today's competitive job market, global economy, and changed corporate culture, we can no longer depend upon others to ensure our professional futures. Choosing or changing your career direction requires self-reflection, career education and an action plan. </p>
<p> Building a successful and rewarding career requires linking your interests, education and skills, with trending industries, job opportunities and your experience. It takes making smart decisions about your college major, vocational training and continuing education options. With motivation, persistence and top notch job search skills, you can succeed in finding a path to building a career that is right for you.</p>
<p>At Your Career Direction, we are your advocate. We listen, assess, strategize, inspire, counsel, and network on your behalf. With a personalized, holistic approach, we'll work with you to help you create an action plan; a path designed to get you to where you want to go. </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar2">
    <p><img src="images/Counselingastudent.gif" width="321" height="256" alt="Lisa Mark counseling a student"></p>
    <p>By combining an understanding of your interests and current skills with what’s happening in today's marketplace we’re able to partner with you to develop new career ideas, target companies, and generate job and internship opportunities. We provide step by step assistance to ensure success in your written communications, presentation skills, job search, interviews and life choices.</p>
<p>At Your Career Direction, YOUR career is our passion. Our mission is to educate and counsel you to choose your own path in life and become what you want to be. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</div>
<div class="footer">
    <div id="footer">
      <h3 align="center"> </h3>
    </div>
    <p> </p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks for your help.

You are using % widths for your layout which means it will look different depending of the size of each users monitor. Although this is probably the better way to go these days, it is not one size fits all and will work more effectively if you include min and max widths, and also media queries that change your layout depending on the monitor size. This is more advanced coding and will take time if you want to do that. Alternatively, you could design using pixel widths and have it look consistent across all desktop browsers and throw a few media queries in for the mobile side.
Responsive Web Design
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/#more-7 5660
More on Media Queries
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/19/how-to-use-css3-media-queries-to-create-a-mo bile-version-of-your-website/

Spry Accordian Tabs Question

Hi
I'm trying to create a spry accordian menu for a navbar and am having some trouble.
This is the first time I've tried it so I would appreciate any help.
The Client would like the tabs to be:
Home
Students
   High School Students
   College Students
Professionals
Parents/Educators
Seminars
Bio
Q & A Blog
Testimonials
So all they would like High School Students and College Students to be child tabs underneath the parent tabs and all other tabs to be parent tabs.
They asked for a spry accordian.
They want the nav bar to be on the left.
Here is the link to the website online:
http://www.elynncohen.com/index2spry2.html#
and here are my questions:
1. The spry accordian has a box around it on mouse down but I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I've checked all the CSS rules for the spry accordian and none of them seem to have rules around them.
2. All the tabs have a content area underneath them and we only want content areas underneath the student tab. You see how it goes when you click on any of the tabs, you get a little thing that says content 1, 2 etc. I tried deleting them in the code and the page goes completely crazy when I do and the nav bar areas stretch all the way across the page.
3. I can't figure out how to get the child tabs (which would be the tabs under students which say high school and college) to have two tabs. You will see that it does have the high school tab there now. When I try cutting and pasting the code to try to get two tabs, it does not work. The spry accordian framework only creates one content area under each tab.
4. I'd like the child tabs to have a narrower height than the parent tabs, and be indented so that they will clearly be set off and different than the parent tabs.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!!!
Here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Your Career Direction Career and College Counseling</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="career counseling, college counseling, job search, career choice, college options, career options, work, jobs, new opportunities, career change, new career, new job" />
<meta name="Description" content="Your Career Direction :: Career and College Counseling" "Considering your college choices & career options" "Preparing for the world of work after college" "Seeking a new position to further your career"
"In-transition and considering new opportunities"
"Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career change" />
<meta name="Publisher" content="Your Career Direction, LLC" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright 2012, Your Career Direction, LLC. All rights reserved." />
<meta name="Author" content="Lisa Mark" />
<meta name="Language" content="en-US" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />
<link rel="Index" href="index.html" />
<link rel="Site Map" href="sitemap.html" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="//use.typekit.net/ifb2bte.js"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body><script type="text/javascript">
function pageWidth() {
return window.innerWidth != null? window.innerWidth : document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body != null ? document.body.clientWidth : null;
function pageHeight() {
return window.innerHeight != null? window.innerHeight : document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.body != null? document.body.clientHeight : null;
</script>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
    <p class="clearfloat"><a href="#index.html" id="Insert_logo2"><img src="images/YCD-logo-tag-RGB-web-SM.gif" alt="Your Career Direction Logo" name="Insert_logo" width="50%" id="Insert_logo2" style="background: #FFF
    ; display:block;" /></a></p>
    <div id="Quote"><img src="images/quote.gif" alt="Choose a job you love" width="355" height="81"></div>
    <p class="clearfloat"> </p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar1">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li>
        <div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Home</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 1</div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Students</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="#">High School</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Professional</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 3</div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Parent/Educator</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 4</div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Seminars</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 5</div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Bio</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 6</div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Q & A Blog</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 7</div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Testimonials</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 8</div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Given today's competitive job market, global economy, and changed corporate culture,
we can no longer depend upon others to ensure our professional futures. Choosing or
changing your career direction requires self-reflection, career education and an action plan.</p>
<img src="images/Whether-you-are-.gif" alt="Whether you are considering your college choices and career options" width="197" height="31" align="left">
<ul>
      <br><br><li><strong>Considering your college choices & career options</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Preparing for the world of work after college</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking a new position to further your career</strong></li>
      <li><strong>In-transition and considering new opportunities</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career</strong> <strong>change</strong></li>
    </ul>
<img src="images/Onethingisforsureraster.gif" width="352" height="49" alt="One thing is for sure, we all want to direct our own careers, our own lives!">
<br><p> Building a successful and rewarding career requires linking your interests, education and experience with employment trends, growth industries, and career choices. It takes making smart decisions about your college major, vocational training and continuing education options. With enthusiasm, persistence and top notch job search skills, you can succeed in finding a path to career that is right for you.</p>
<p> We are your advocate. We listen, assess, strategize, inspire, counsel, and network on your behalf. With a personalized, holistic approach, we'll work with you to help you create an action plan; a path designed to get you to where you want to go and become what you want to be.</p>
<img src="images/yourcareerourpassionraster.gif" width="441" height="20" alt="At Your Career Direction, YOUR career is our passion!"> </div>
<div class="sidebar2">
    <p><img src="images/Counselingastudent.gif" width="100%" alt="Lisa Mark counseling a student"></p>
    <p>Our mission is to help you explore, choose and create your direction for an exciting and rewarding career path.</p>
     <p>We incorporate our experience with today's job market and career counseling expertise with your passions and interests. We'll introduce you to new career ideas, target companies and generate job and internship opportunities for you.</p>
     <p>We provide step by step guidance to ensure your success during the college application, job interview
and decision making process.
</p>
</div>
<div class="footer">
    <div id="footer">
      <h6 align="left"> Your Career Direction, LLC • 96 Harvard Avenue, Maplewood, N.J. 07040 • (973) 996-0207 • [email protected]</h6>
    </div>
    <p> </p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var Accordion1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1");
</script>
</body>
</html>

1. The spry accordian has a box around it on mouse down but I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I've checked all the CSS rules for the spry accordian and none of them seem to have rules around them.
2. All the tabs have a content area underneath them and we only want content areas underneath the student tab. You see how it goes when you click on any of the tabs, you get a little thing that says content 1, 2 etc. I tried deleting them in the code and the page goes completely crazy when I do and the nav bar areas stretch all the way across the page.
3. I can't figure out how to get the child tabs (which would be the tabs under students which say high school and college) to have two tabs. You will see that it does have the high school tab there now. When I try cutting and pasting the code to try to get two tabs, it does not work. The spry accordian framework only creates one content area under each tab.
4. I'd like the child tabs to have a narrower height than the parent tabs, and be indented so that they will clearly be set off and different than the parent tabs.
1. Line 454
<div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0" style="outline: none;">
2 & 3. Change your code from Line 455 - 491:
<div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Home</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Students</a></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="#">High School</a><br/><a href="#" style="margin-top: -30px;">College</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Professional</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Parent/Educator</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Seminars</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Bio</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Q & A Blog</a></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><a href="#">Testimonials</a></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>
</div>
4. Append your HTML for child tabs like this:
<div class="AccordionPanelContent" id="submenu"><a href="#">High School</a></div>
Create a new #submenu css rule in your CSS document and set styling the way you want it.

Sidebar moving over right border of website and outside of main container

Hi
I'm doing a website and have a question.
I have a left nav bar, a fluid center column and an absolute positioned right sidebar.
The sidebar is set to clear left and float right.
However the sidebar moves over to the right and extends past the right border on some browsers.
It moves out of the main container and I would like it to remain within it.
Does anyone know how I can fix it so that the sidebar stays within the white area and does not move to the right?
Thanks for your help!!!!
Here is a screen shot
When the browser window gets a little smaller the sidebar goes back to where I want it.
Here is a link to my test page online:
http://elynncohen.com/index2.html
and here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Your Career Direction Career and College Counseling</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="career counseling, college counseling, job search, career choice, college options, career options, work, jobs, new opportunities, career change, new career, new job" />
<meta name="Description" content="Your Career Direction :: Career and College Counseling" "Considering your college choices & career options" "Preparing for the world of work after college" "Seeking a new position to further your career"
"In-transition and considering new opportunities"
"Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career change" />
<meta name="Publisher" content="Your Career Direction, LLC" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright 2012, Your Career Direction, LLC. All rights reserved." />
<meta name="Author" content="Lisa Mark" />
<meta name="Language" content="en-US" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />
<link rel="Index" href="index.html" />
<link rel="Site Map" href="sitemap.html" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="//use.typekit.net/ifb2bte.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>
<style type="text/css">

</style></head>
<body><script type="text/javascript">
function pageWidth() {
return window.innerWidth != null? window.innerWidth : document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body != null ? document.body.clientWidth : null;
function pageHeight() {
return window.innerHeight != null? window.innerHeight : document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.body != null? document.body.clientHeight : null;
</script>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
    <p class="clearfloat"><a href="#index.html" id="Insert_logo2"><img src="images/YCD-logo-tag-RGB-web-SM.gif" alt="Your Career Direction Logo" name="Insert_logo" width="50%" id="Insert_logo2" style="background: #FFF
    ; display:block;" /></a></p>
    <div id="Quote"><img src="images/quote.gif" alt="Choose a job you love" width="355" height="81"></div>
    <p class="clearfloat"> </p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar1">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">High School Students</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">College Students</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Parents/Educators</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Professionals</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Bio</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Q & A Blog</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Testimonials</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Given today's competitive job market, global economy, and changed corporate culture,
we can no longer depend upon others to ensure our professional futures. Choosing or
changing your career direction requires self-reflection, career education and an action plan.</p>
<img src="images/Whether-you-are-.gif" alt="Whether you are considering your college choices and career options" width="197" height="31" align="left">
<ul>
      <br><br><li><strong>Considering your college choices & career options</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Preparing for the world of work after college</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking a new position to further your career</strong></li>
      <li><strong>In-transition and considering new opportunities</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career</strong> <strong>change</strong></li>
    </ul>
<img src="images/Onethingisforsureraster.gif" width="352" height="49" alt="One thing is for sure, we all want to direct our own careers, our own lives!">
<br><p> Building a successful and rewarding career requires linking your interests, education and experience with employment trends, growth industries, and career choices. It takes making smart decisions about your college major, vocational training and continuing education options. With enthusiasm, persistence and top notch job search skills, you can succeed in finding a path to career that is right for you.</p>
<p> We are your advocate. We listen, assess, strategize, inspire, counsel, and network on your behalf. With a personalized, holistic approach, we'll work with you to help you create an action plan; a path designed to get you to where you want to go and become what you want to be.</p>
<img src="images/yourcareerourpassionraster.gif" width="441" height="20" alt="At Your Career Direction, YOUR career is our passion!"> </div>
<div class="sidebar2">
    <p><img src="images/Counselingastudent.gif" width="100%" alt="Lisa Mark counseling a student"></p>
    <p>Our mission is to help you explore, choose and create your direction for an exciting and rewarding career path.</p>
     <p>We incorporate our experience with today's job market and career counseling expertise with your passions and interests. We'll introduce you to new career ideas, target companies and generate job and internship opportunities for you.</p>
     <p>We provide step by step guidance to ensure your success during the college application, job interview
and decision making process.
</p>
</div>
<div class="footer">
    <div id="footer">
      <h6 align="left"> Your Career Direction, LLC • 96 Harvard Avenue, Maplewood, N.J. 07040 • (973) 996-0207 • [email protected]</h6>
         </div>
    <p> </p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Absolute positioning will always cause you problems so it's best to avoid unless absolutely necessary.
Having said that, your layout issues were a straight-forward fix. Modify your style sheet with the below sections and and it should be ok. You might need to modify your CSS for smaller screens as once you reduce the browser window to about 500px, the right sidebar disappears. Something to be aware of.
.sidebar1 {
    float: left;
    width: 20%;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    margin-top: 40px;
    border-top-color: #FFF;
    border-left: #FFF;
    margin-left: 25px;
    background-color: #FFF;
    font-family: museo-sans; arial;
    max-width: 200px;
    min-width: 180px;
    position: absolute;
.content {
    float: left;
    margin-top: 40px;
    margin: 40px 0 0 0;
    padding:10px;
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    padding-left: 10;
    font-family: museo-sans; arial;
    margin-right: 250px;
    margin-left: 220px;
    width: 50%; /* You can increase this to 55%, or add a left and right margin to space the elements */
    font-size: large;
.sidebar2 {
    float: right;
    float:left;
    width: 20%;
    background-color: #D3CCB2;
    margin-top: 40px;
    padding: 10px 0;
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    padding-left: 0px;
    border-top-color: #FFF;
    border-right-color: #FFF;
    border-bottom-color: #FFF;
    border-left-color: #FFF;
    border-right-width: 5px;
    font-family: museo-sans; arial;
    font-size: 90%;
    position: absolute;
    clear: left;
    right: 12%;
.sidebar2 p img {
    min-width: 200px; /* This needs to be removed or made smaller if you are keeping it - or set a min-width on sidebar2 */
    max-width: 100%;
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
.container .content {
    width: 50%;
    font-size: large;
    font-family: museo-sans; arial;
EDIT:// I meant to say, you should probably spend some time tidying up your CSS as they are not in any obvious order and can get confusing with multiple styles for the same element. Having a clean and easy to understand CSS sheet makes it easier for you to figure out what is wrong. Will help you enormously in the long run.
Message was edited by: Rik

How to keep the right sidebar on this website from going under the main content (center) column?

Hi...is there a way to keep the right sidebar on this website from going under the main content (center) column when the browser window is made smaller? It would be great if the middle (main content) column could get smaller instead of the sidebar moving under the text when the window is made smaller. I'm working with a fluid layout and this is the first time I've tried this. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the link to the website:
http://www.elynncohen.com
and here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Your Career Direction Career and College Counseling</title>
<meta name="Keywords" content="career counseling, college counseling, job search, career choice, college options, career options, work, jobs, new opportunities, career change, new career, new job" />
<meta name="Description" content="Your Career Direction :: Career and College Counseling" "Considering your college choices & career options" "Preparing for the world of work after college" "Seeking a new position to further your career"
"In-transition and considering new opportunities"
"Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career change" />
<meta name="Publisher" content="Your Career Direction, LLC" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright 2012, Your Career Direction, LLC. All rights reserved." />
<meta name="Author" content="Lisa Mark" />
<meta name="Language" content="en-US" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days" />
<meta name="Robots" content="All" />
<link rel="Index" href="index.html" />
<link rel="Site Map" href="sitemap.html" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="//use.typekit.net/ifb2bte.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">try{Typekit.load();}catch(e){}</script>
<style type="text/css">

</style></head>
<body><script type="text/javascript">
function pageWidth() {
return window.innerWidth != null? window.innerWidth : document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body != null ? document.body.clientWidth : null;
function pageHeight() {
return window.innerHeight != null? window.innerHeight : document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.body != null? document.body.clientHeight : null;
</script>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
    <p class="clearfloat"><a href="#index.html" id="Insert_logo2"><img src="images/YCD-logo-tag-RGB-web-SM.gif" alt="Your Career Direction Logo" name="Insert_logo" width="50%" id="Insert_logo2" style="background: #FFF
    ; display:block;" /></a></p>
    <div id="Quote"><img src="images/quote.gif" alt="Choose a job you love" width="355" height="81"></div>
    <p class="clearfloat"> </p>
</div>
<div class="sidebar1">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">High School Students</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">College Students</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Parents/Educators</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Professionals</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Bio</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Q & A Blog</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Testimonials</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Given today's competitive job market, global economy, and changed corporate culture,
we can no longer depend upon others to ensure our professional futures. Choosing or
changing your career direction requires self-reflection, career education and an action plan.</p>
<img src="images/Whether-you-are-.gif" alt="Whether you are considering your college choices and career options" width="197" height="31" align="left">
<ul>
      <br><br><li><strong>Considering your college choices & career options</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Preparing for the world of work after college</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking a new position to further your career</strong></li>
      <li><strong>In-transition and considering new opportunities</strong></li>
      <li><strong>Seeking to make a significant and meaningful career</strong> <strong>change</strong></li>
    </ul>
<img src="images/Onethingisforsureraster.gif" width="352" height="49" alt="One thing is for sure, we all want to direct our own careers, our own lives!">
<br><p> Building a successful and rewarding career requires linking your interests, education and experience with employment trends, growth industries, and career choices. It takes making smart decisions about your college major, vocational training and continuing education options. With enthusiasm, persistence and top notch job search skills, you can succeed in finding a path to career that is right for you.</p>
<p> We are your advocate. We listen, assess, strategize, inspire, counsel, and network on your behalf. With a personalized, holistic approach, we'll work with you to help you create an action plan; a path designed to get you to where you want to go and become what you want to be.</p>
<img src="images/yourcareerourpassionraster.gif" width="441" height="20" alt="At Your Career Direction, YOUR career is our passion!"> </div>
<div class="sidebar2">
    <p><img src="images/Counselingastudent.gif" width="100%" alt="Lisa Mark counseling a student"></p>
    <p>Our mission is to help you explore, choose and create your direction for an exciting and rewarding career path.</p>
     <p>We incorporate our experience with today's job market and career counseling expertise with your passions and interests. We'll introduce you to new career ideas, target companies and generate job and internship opportunities for you.</p>
     <p>We provide step by step guidance to ensure your success during the college application, job interview
and decision making process.
</p>
</div>
<div class="footer">
    <div id="footer">
      <h6 align="left"> Your Career Direction, LLC • 96 Harvard Avenue, Maplewood, N.J. 07040 • (973) 996-0207 • [email protected]</h6>
         </div>
    <p> </p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

You should make your sidebar1 and sidebar2 fixed positioned. Make your content DIV fluid.
This should help you: http://www.glish.com/css/7.asp

Problems with hitTestObject

Hey,
this is my first year of flash and we have an assignment where we must drive with a car to a finishline.
making the car move isnt a problem, but there has to be 6 objects you must avoid when driving around.
when i drive around and i hit my object i should avoid, it stops and i cant move around. and instead i want to be able to corrigate my direction.
some of my terms are in dutch i'll try to make some commentary in english.
visual idea how it looks like
i made 4 car objects that look a direction
up = Autoboven
down = Autoonder
left = Autolinks
right = Autoright
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
// kegel = cone
var clipArray:Array = [kegel1,kegel2,kegel3,kegel4,kegel5,kegel6];
var auto:MovieClip = new Autolinks();
var finish:MovieClip = new Finish();
addChild(auto);
auto.x= 490;
auto.y= 80;
var richting:int = 0;
//richting = direction
//tijd = time
var tijd:int = 0;
var txtFld:TextField = new TextField();
addChild(txtFld);
txtFld.x = 500;
txtFld.y = 370;
var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
timer.start();
function onTimer(evt:TimerEvent):void{
          tijd +=1;
          txtFld.text = (tijd) + " sec";
          var clip:MovieClip;
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN , onKeyPressed);
function onKeyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void{
          switch (evt.keyCode){
                    case Keyboard.LEFT:
                              changeLeft();
                    break;
                    case Keyboard.RIGHT:
                               changeRight();
                    break;
                    case Keyboard.DOWN:
                              changeDown();
                    break;
                    case Keyboard.UP:
                              changeUp();
                    break;
function changeLeft()
                    if (richting != 0)
                              clip= new Autolinks();
                              changeRichting(clip);
                              richting = 0;
                    if(auto.x > 100 && !( isHitting() ) )
                              auto.x -= 10;
                     else if( isHitting() )
                    else if (auto.x <= 100){
                              stage.removeEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyPressed);
                              removeChild(auto);
                              finish.x = 225;
                              finish.y = 200;
                              addChild(finish);
                              timer.stop();
function changeRight()
                    if (richting != 1)
                    {          clip= new Autorechts();
                              changeRichting(clip);
                              richting = 1;}
                    if (!(auto.x < (stage.stageWidth-auto.width)) && !(isHitting()))
                    {          auto.x += 10; }
function changeUp()
                    if (richting != 2)
                              clip = new Autoboven();
                              changeRichting(clip);
                              richting = 2;
                    if ((auto.y > 0)&& !(isHitting()))
                              auto.y -= 10;
function changeDown()
         if (richting != 3)
               clip= new Autoonder();
               changeRichting(clip);
               richting = 3;
          if ((auto.y < stage.stageHeight) && !(isHitting()))
               auto.y += 10;
function changeRichting(clip:MovieClip)
          var xpos:int = auto.x;
          var ypos:int = auto.y;
          removeChild(auto);
          auto = clip;
          addChild(auto);
          auto.x = xpos;
          auto.y = ypos;
function isHitting():Boolean
     for (var i:int = 0; i < clipArray.length; i++){
                    if( auto.hitTestObject( clipArray[i] )){
                              return true;
return false
i dont have big experience in programming in flash, and this code can be very hard to understand
any help or tips will be appreciated much!
Greetz Rens

here's changeLeft(). the rest are all similar:
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.text.TextField;
// kegel = cone
var clipArray:Array = [kegel1,kegel2,kegel3,kegel4,kegel5,kegel6];
var auto:MovieClip = new Autolinks();
var finish:MovieClip = new Finish();
addChild(auto);
auto.x= 490;
auto.y= 80;
var richting:int = 0;
//richting = direction
//tijd = time
var tijd:int = 0;
var txtFld:TextField = new TextField();
addChild(txtFld);
txtFld.x = 500;
txtFld.y = 370;
var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
timer.start();
function onTimer(evt:TimerEvent):void{
          tijd +=1;
          txtFld.text = (tijd) + " sec";
          var clip:MovieClip;
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN , onKeyPressed);
function onKeyPressed(evt:KeyboardEvent):void{
          switch (evt.keyCode){
                    case Keyboard.LEFT:
                              changeLeft();
                    break;
                    case Keyboard.RIGHT:
                               changeRight();
                    break;
                    case Keyboard.DOWN:
                              changeDown();
                    break;
                    case Keyboard.UP:
                              changeUp();
                    break;
function changeLeft()
                    if (richting != 0)
                              clip= new Autolinks();
                              changeRichting(clip);
                              richting = 0;
                    if(auto.x > 100 && !( isHitting() ) )
                              auto.x -= 10;
                    else if (auto.x <= 100){
                              stage.removeEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyPressed);
                              removeChild(auto);
                              finish.x = 225;
                              finish.y = 200;
                              addChild(finish);
                              timer.stop();
if(isHitting()){
auto.x+=10;

Slightly shift between pages is driving me nuts.

Hello,
I've been building my site and I noticed that there is a slight shift in between all of the pages and the contact page, I have copy and paste several times the coding from one page to the other one... sometimes it shifts up and down, when navigating between pages. I was wondering if someone can figure this out. Here is the coding for you to look. The first one si the index which is the correct position for the spry menu, title to be in, the second one is the contact one which is the one that shifts.
index:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Works</title>
<style type="text/css">
img {
          background-color: #FFF;
          top: 10px;
          right: 10px;
#pix p img {
          vertical-align: middle;
#pix div #MenuBar1 {
          font-family: Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
#footer div p {
          font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: x-small;
p {
          font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: 14px;
#about p {
          font-size: 9px;
#about p {
          font-size: 12px;
#about p {
          text-align: center;
#about p {
          text-align: left;
#pic01 {
          font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: 10px;
          background-color: #FFF;
          letter-spacing: 0%;
          clear: none;
          float: none;
          height: auto;
          width: 500px;
          border-top-width: thin;
          border-right-width: thin;
          border-bottom-width: thin;
          border-left-width: thin;
          border-top-style: none;
          border-right-style: none;
          border-bottom-style: none;
          border-left-style: none;
          left: auto;
          clip: rect(auto,auto,auto,400px);
          padding-left: 0px;
          top: auto;
          right: auto;
          bottom: auto;
          margin-right: auto;
          margin-left: auto;
#header .center {
          font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: 36px;
</style>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
    font: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    width: 1000px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    font-size: 100%;
    background: #FFF;
h1 {font-size: 36px;}
#pix01 {
          width: 600px;
          border: 1px dotted white;
          margin-top: 0;
          margin-right: auto;
          margin-bottom: 0;
          margin-left: 260px;
          height: 595px;
#pix01 img {
          height: 595px;
          width: 600px;
          vertical-align: middle;
#pix01 p {
    font-size:12px;
#footer {
    font-size:12px;
/**re-usable classes**/
.center {text-align:center}
.right {text-align:right}
/**clear floats**/
.clearLt {clear:left; display:block; height:1px; visibility:hidden;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1 align="center" class="center">Arturo Herrera</h1>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
    <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="Works.html">Works</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Dossier</a></li>
    <li><a href="Contact.html">Contact</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">New Exhibitions</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Video</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
    
</p>
<hr class="clearLt" />
<p></p>
</div>
<div id="pix01"><img src="background2.jpg" name="main" width="600" height="595" id="main" /></div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<div id="pic01">
<p align="left" class="text">Background # 2 Cut & Paste 2/5</p>
<p align="left" class="text">Mixed Media: magazine collage, glue, wood, photographic paper, matt board, nails,</p>
<p align="left" class="text">plywood, wire, sylicon</p>
<p align="left" class="text">tags: identity, citizenship, illegal immigrant, immigration, racial profile, status, canada,</p>
<p align="left" class="text">usa, latino, home sexuality</p>
<p align="left" class="text">2012</p>
</div>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/arteisfoto" target="new" class="facebook">Facebook</a></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http:/www.arteisfoto.com" target="new">Arte is Foto</a></p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<div id="footer">
<div align="center">
    <p> </p>
    <p>Copyright 2002-2013 © Arturo Herrera. This is site is contantly changing.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p> </p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Contact:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Works</title>
<link href="images.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Works</title>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
body {
    font: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    width: 1000px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    font-size: 100%;
    background: #FFF;
h1 {font-size: 36px;}
#pix01 {
width: 480px;
border: 1px dotted white;
margin: 0 auto;
#pix01 img {
    height: 130px;
    width: 130px;
    vertical-align:middle;
#pix01 p {
    font-size:12px;
#footer {
    font-size:12px;
/**re-usable classes**/
.center {text-align:center}
.right {text-align:right}
/**clear floats**/
.clearLt {clear:left; display:block; height:1px; visibility:hidden;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1 class="center">Arturo Herrera</h1>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="Works.html">Works</a></li>
<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Dossier</a> </li>
<li><a href="Contact.html">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
<li><a href="#">New Exhibitions</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Video</a></li>
</ul>

<hr class="clearLt" />

</div>
<p align="left" class="text"> </p>
<p align="left"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact">If you would like to contact me please send me an email at: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<div id="footer">
<div align="center">
    <p> </p>
    <p>Copyright 2002-2013 © Arturo Herrera. This is site is contantly changing.</p>
</div>
</div>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<p align="center" class="contact"> </p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var MenuBar1 = new Spry.Widget.MenuBar("MenuBar1", {imgDown:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif", imgRight:"SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarRightHover.gif"});
</script>
</body>
</html>
I hope this is something easy to fix, Thanks!! this is the website too : www.arturoherrera.ca

arteisfoto wrote:
John, I duplicated the rule pix01 to pix02 and assigned it to the next image and its working, would you say that is ok?
It works but it's high maintenance using unnecessary, repetitive IDs for repeating page elements with the same CSS rules defined for each ID. There's lots of redundant CSS and you need a new ID defined for every image. That's creating a rod for your back.
Convert to a class - that's what they're for - and you're done.
Change
#pix01 {
          width: 600px;
          margin-top: 0;
          margin-right: auto;
          margin-bottom: 0;
          margin-left: 260px;
          height: 450px;
to
.pix01 {
          width: 600px;
          margin-top: 0;
          margin-right: auto;
          margin-bottom: 0;
          margin-left: 260px;
          height: 450px;
Change all
<div id="pix01">
to
<div class="pix01">
and you're done.
Note: there's even a school of thought which says IDs in CSS can be avoided altogether.
http://screwlewse.com/2010/07/dont-use-id-selectors-in-css/

Several GarageBank Questions

Hi,
As a new-start can someone give me pointers re the following:
[1] I have two Midi enabled keyboards. What's the best value but reliable way to connect up a keyboard to GarageBand for me? Should I:
(a) try using my existing keyboards, but somehow identify a MIDI-to-USB converter for my MacBook, or
(b) purchase an Apple USB keyboard (which would seem a bit of a waste of my existing keyboards)
[2] Voice - I do have a mixing desk. For good voice input would people recommend going Mike into my mixer and then Line Level after this into the MacBook? Or is there a better way to get good quality voice into the MacBook?
[3] What if I were considering going to ProTools as opposed to GarageBand? Would the answers to Q1 and Q2 above change?
[4] What are people's thoughts in terms of whether it is worth upgrading to ProTools for a hobbyist recorder? Is GarageBand usable enough. For example things I would expect is:
- ability to loop through a recording passage having multiple attempts at getting it right, and then choosing the take that was correct
- ideally with the audio takes being able to slice and dice the best bit out of the multiple takes
- ability to transpose midi parts
- ability to record changes to part levels over the course of the song
- ability to save to a stereo file and burn to CD
- basic effects - e.g. reverb for voice
- ability to manage input levels for clipping, or adding auto-clipping control, or compression or something
- ability to have say 10 channels of audio
Thanks in advance
Greg
Regards
Greg
MacBook (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.9)

[1] I have two Midi enabled keyboards. What's the
best value but reliable way to connect up a keyboard
to GarageBand for me? Should I:
(a) try using my existing keyboards, but somehow
identify a MIDI-to-USB converter for my MacBook, or
(b) purchase an Apple USB keyboard (which would seem
a bit of a waste of my existing keyboards)
If you are happy with the keyboards themselves then a MIDI to USB interface would be the most sensible way to go: for example
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BD321K
[2] Voice - I do have a mixing desk. For good voice
input would people recommend going Mike into my mixer
and then Line Level after this into the MacBook? Or
is there a better way to get good quality voice into
the MacBook?
I should start by running your mixer into the Mac and see if you are happy with the results: you may get a small amount of hiss or buzz, so listen carefully for that. It may be OK for you: or you could go for an audio interface: HangTime offers some suggestions -
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/FAQPages/Interfaces.html
[3] What if I were considering going to ProTools as
opposed to GarageBand? Would the answers to Q1 and
Q2 above change?
No, because you are talking about the interface into the computer, rather than GB itself.
[4] What are people's thoughts in terms of whether it
is worth upgrading to ProTools for a hobbyist
recorder?
You might to better to see if there is a forum for ProTools users; I don't know whether many people on here know much about ProTools. It's a powerful program, but GarageBand can do a great deal. I should work with GB for a bit and find out whether its limitations bother you.
Is GarageBand usable enough. For example
things I would expect is:
- ability to loop through a recording passage having
multiple attempts at getting it right, and then
choosing the take that was correct
I think you can do something like this with audio using the 'cycle region', though each take will wipe the one before, so it's not exactly what you were asking for.
- ideally with the audio takes being able to slice
and dice the best bit out of the multiple takes
Possible, by recording a number of tracks as different takes: though GB's audio editing is a bit clumsy.
- ability to transpose midi parts
Yes
- ability to record changes to part levels over the
course of the song
Yes, by drawing automation curves.
- ability to save to a stereo file and burn to CD
Yes, save to iTunes and burn from there.
- basic effects - e.g. reverb for voice
Yes.
- ability to manage input levels for clipping,
You control input levels with your mixer: there is a meter on the track as you record.
adding auto-clipping control, or compression or
something
There is compression, though it's normally added after the event. There are many Audio Units you can add on: again, these are applied after the recording has been made.
- ability to have say 10 channels of audio
Yes, though if you want to record several at once you will need a FireWire interface. The number of tracks you can have is dependent more on the power of your computer. Slower computers will start to fall over as you add tracks.

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davevad42 wrote:
For that amount of money, I expect more options.
I can't see where to import over firewire on QT. Maybe if I unplug the webcam it will show the firewire input.
I don't have a Firewire camera to test right now, but I'm pretty sure that if I had it would appear as an option next to the built-in iSight:

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