Best Plan/Set-up for Peru

Hi -
I am moving to Peru from the United States, and since I am new to Skype I thought I would ask the experts what the best plan or set-up for staying in touch would be. Basically, I would like to have the ability to call landlines and mobiles back in the USA, and for landlines and mobiles to be able to call my Skype line in Peru. I would prefer an unlimited plan rather than having to worry about counting my minutes or overages.
Also, I am wondering if I would be able to divert calls to my current cell phone number to my Skype line when I am in Peru. If that is the case, would I be able to access these calls on my cell when I return to the United States?
Thanks for all the help. Apologies if this is basic or doesn't make total sense, but as I said, I'm new at this and looking to begin to understand it all.

I am moving to Peru from the United States, and since I am new to Skype I thought I would ask the experts what the best plan or set-up for staying in touch would be. Basically, I would like to have the ability to call landlines and mobiles back in the USA, and for landlines and mobiles to be able to call my Skype line in Peru. I would prefer an unlimited plan rather than having to worry about counting my minutes or overages.
You would probably want to do two things.... First, purchase a subscription for calling phones in the USA. Probably the best plan in this case is the Unlimited USA & Canada subscription at US$ 2.99/month. Then you would also want to purchase an Online Number in the US area code that you prefer (provided it is available). The Online Number is US$ 18 for 3 months or US$ 60/year, but you get a 50% discount on the Online Number when you have a subscription like the Unlimited USA & Canada subscription. If you get a subscription and a US online number for a year, you can end up with a US phone number and calling to all US (and Canadian) numbers for around US$ 60/year - or US$ 5/month! Not a bad deal, especially when you're in Peru.
Another obvious thing you'll need in Peru is a good Internet connection. You probably knew that already, but that's a must for this to work well for you down there.
Also, I am wondering if I would be able to divert calls to my current cell phone number to my Skype line when I am in Peru. If that is the case, would I be able to access these calls on my cell when I return to the United States?
You should be able to do that. You'd have to check the instructions for your phone, and maybe contact your mobile carrier, about how to do that. Setting call-forwarding on your mobile phone is completely separate from Skype. Make sure that call-forwarding from your mobile phone is not limited to a maximum number of minutes per month, as some carriers do that. If you set the call-forwarding before you left the USA, you can turn that off whenever you are back in the States.
One thing that you could do with a calling subscription covering US numbers along with a US online number is this.... encourage your callers to use the Skype Online Number to reach you, instead of the mobile number. You can set up Skype to call-forward unanswered calls to a telephone number if you have Skype Credit and/or a calling subscription. When in the States, Skype can be used to forward calls from your Skype number to your US mobile number. Other than not receiving SMS messages on a Skype Online Number, then it does not matter what your mobile number is. Just use the Skype Online Number as your number for anything you need in the US. I've done this for several years, with a subscription and a US Online Number. It works pretty well.
Good luck in Peru!
Patrick
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The quality of your output file will depend on a number of things: primarily the quality of your source file, the efficiency of the target codec, and the specific settings used. (About which you did not elaborate.) The rule of thumb here is that your output will never be better than your input and each re-comprssion of the data has the potential to degrade the quality to some degree.
I have tried both export and save-as. Neither has done a good job.
The "Export" option re-compresses the data while the "Save As..." option only places the original data in an MOV file container. So if this output is "bad, bad, bad," then I suspect your source file(s) are not of high quality to begin with. (This seems to be confirmed by the very low audio sampling rate which implies the video data rate was probably also low to conserve file storage space.)
The internal information of the AVI movies are: (as reported by QT)... Format: Apple OpenDML JPEG, 640 x 480, Millions, 8-bit Unsigned Integer, Mono, 11.024 kHz
The basic codecs here appear to be both playback and conversion compatitible with QT (other than the very low sampling rate which some QT apps may not like). Thus, if your work flow is to simply burn DVDs that can be played on commercial players, the AVI could most likely be dropped to iDVD for authoring. On the other hand, if you are editing in a recent version of iMovie, then that app may not like the AVI file container. In this case, the best quality you can likely expect would be to use the "Save As..." option to place the data in an MOV file container and import to iMovie.
Unfortunately, editing in iMovie '08/'09/'11 is done "by reference" which means your output file will be created by exporting the impoted source data to another compression format. The default would be H.264/AAC which is a highly compressed format which in turn would be re-compressed again by iDVD to multiplexed MPEG2/PCM content further reducing quality by using a less efficient video codec. My recommendation for export from iMovie in this case would be AIC/Linear PCM. (I.e., to export your edits to the Apple intermediat video codec using the original file size and frame rate with just a bit of "sharpening" and using 16-bit/48 kHz Linear PCM audio (which is what will be used to create the DVD).
Should I be using a better application then QuickTime?
How much are you willing to spend?
Is there a way to just use iDVD with the original AVI movies?
Yes. Simply create a new SD project, select your theme, drop the compatible AVI content to the appropriate "drop" area(s), add photos as desired, preview the results, and author the DVD if/when satisfied.

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