Creating a video library

I am creating a video library of approximately 100 video
clips - suggestions or thoughts from anyone who has done this
before and the best way to do it, and best file format? I am
leaning towards wmv simply because that is how the videos are now -
and using a database to pull the file name for each link.
It needs to be designed where it will fit in a fixed size
player that users can resize.
Thanks!

oh yeah one more question - any suggestions or links to
something that could automate this - i.e. a javascript or extension
- where I wouldn't have to do much coding . . . yes lazy I
know!

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Creating a Video "Library" in Pr

Hi,
Recently I have decided to make the switch from Final Cut Pro X to premiere pro. This switch is mainly due to the cool dynamic link features in premiere.
I generally edit video mashups/compilations as backdrop visuals for DJs. Some of my videos include clips from over 80 different sources. I'm currently using Final Cut Pro X to do all the editing and now feel I have outgrown it a bit. When I'm editing in FCPX I use my events and key tags as a means of organizing a wide variety of clips. What I like about this system is it allows me to bring in any of my key tagged clips into a current project. In an Ideal world I would have this same type of “library” of clips to pull from in premiere.
So my two question are:
1. Is there a way to easily access clips (including metadata) from previous projects in premiere so that I can add them to a current project?
2. Do you have any advice about organizing a massive video library like this?
As an important side note all of the videos I sample are by permission or a commercial Creative Commons license.
I would love to hear a professional opinion on this, Thanks for the help!

oh yeah one more question - any suggestions or links to
something that could automate this - i.e. a javascript or extension
- where I wouldn't have to do much coding . . . yes lazy I
know!

40gb vs 160gb - creating a video library on external hard drive

I'm considering buying an Apple TV and want to make sure it accomplishes what I want before I do. If so, I'm wondering if I should buy a 40gb version or the 160gb.
Ultimately, what I'd like to do is put my entire video library onto an external hard drive. I don't want to deal with physical DVDs any longer. I know how to convert my home movie DVDs and get them into iTunes so that isn't an issue (although I know it'll take time).
I currently have 1 iTunes library that I connect to with my iMac and my MacBook Pro. The library is on an external hard drive. Can I connect an AppleTV to this external harddrive where the existing iTunes library is?
If this is possible, is the larger 160gb hard drive necessary? My thought is if I keep my iTunes library on an external harddrive, I wouldn't need the larger capacity AppleTV?
I appreciate input from others that may have done this. Thanks!

Can I connect an AppleTV to this external harddrive where the existing iTunes library is?
No. Your TV device is connected either via your wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n network or via your 10/100 base-T wired network. As long as the TV can communicate with iTunes and iTunes knows where your library is located, the data will be sent to the device for viewing. I currently am using a 1 TB LaCie drive for my iTunes library but as I have almost reached full capacity for just my standard definition files, will be switching to a 2 TB as soon as it arrives. The only advantage for having a large internal TV drive is that you can watch your movies with your computer/iTunes turned off. Since my computer is on all day anyway working to convert my video library for use with Front Row/iTunes management of iPhone/iPod/TV files, I have no problem viewing my content exclusively in the "streaming" mode.

How do I create an iTunes library on an external hard drive?

I have a MacBook Pro running OS10.6.8 and iTunes 10.3.1.
I have simply run out of hard drive space on my laptop.
I want to create a secondary iTune library on an external hard drive.
(I know how to create a new iTune Library - it ends up in my Music folder on my laptop hard drive).
So how do I:
a) create or move this folder to an external hard drive, and
b) once done, how do I move my video files (television programs and movies) from my laptop iTune folder to the external hard drive?
Thank you for any assistance.

no need to create a secondary library - too troublesome, IMHO. you can spread your library over as many drives you can connect to your Mac (wired or wirelessly):
iTunes > preferences > advanced.
point iTunes media folder location to the external
on the same tab, ensure the copy files ... when adding option is checkmarked
okay out of preferences
highlight the content to be moved in iTunes and right-click
select consolidate files from the pop-up menu
wait for the process to finish
when done, you may delete the original files from your boot drive.
alternatively, you could move the whole shabang to the external HD:
copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music or media folder) from <MacintoshHD>/users/<yourname>/music to the external, launch iTunes while holding the option(⌥) key, click on choose library when prompted, and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
when done, be sure to point iTunes media folder location to the external so that new additions to your library will be put there. also, you need to make sure the external is mounted on your desktop before you fire up iTunes.

Create a new library out of a huge mess?

I was looking at the iTunes library that my wife has on her PC which is made up of a few hundred tracks all of which she has on her machine & all of which were copied from her CD's & thus don't have any DRM problems associated with them.
Her file is a mess what with artists names spelled incorrectly, tracks from one album sometimes being displayed as coming from 2 different albums etc. I know that it would take a long time to correct all of the errors so I'm looking for an easier way.
What would happen if I were to delete her old library & start a new one then Just tell the program to search for MP3 file only in locations that I nominate or else just do a cut from the same locations & then just paste the tracks into automatically add track to library folder. Would this work, or would I just end up in the same place again? Would doing this cause other problems like loosing cover art etc?Create a new library out of a mess
Any other ideas?

I had the same problem for a few days... really really annoying. I did three things and ONE of them fixed the problem.
1. I created a new event. added video to the event. right clicked on the video and clicked add to timeline. this allowed me to edit and export, but it did not save my project because there was no project.
2. I moved final cut studio to the trash (I did not have 7, I had final cut pro 6)
3. there are THREE places to create a new project. I tried 2 of them a hundred times... but when I tried the third hidden one, it worked.
a. under file... no good
b. the big "create new project button.... nope
c. in the very lower left... there is a picture of a reel of tape... clicked that, and everything worked.
it is actually the "show the project library" button.
Go into the library, right click, and select create new project. NOW A, B, and C all work

I want to create a second library with the same account on a separate hard drive....

Hi,
I am running out of room on my iMac to store all of my iTunes music and video. I want to create a second library with the same account on a separate hard drive. Will iTunes Match match both libraries ? Will I be able to acess both libraries from all my devices? Can iTunes Match merge them together so I can have easy access to everything?
Thanks for any advice.
christos

Unfortunately, you can't. The primary address for your iCloud account must be a non-Apple email account. The only exception to this is for former MobileMe subscribers who migrated to iCloud when MobileMe closed, which was 18 months ago.

Rsync used STRICTLY for "photos and video" library back-up

Hi,
I'm hoping to get some guidance from some experienced users of rsync.
I'm new to rsync, but have been learning about it.   I'm also new to Terminal.
.....**For full system back-ups, I use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner)....clean and simple.**
However, for my large "photo & video library" (over 1 TB on an external drive), I found that CCC, while essentially doing the same as rsync, seems to take MUCH longer. Rsync, on the other hand, is very fast.
This leads me to FIVE questions.
Q1: Is this because CCC (which uses the rsync command, albeit modified), is doing a check-sum or sometime else behind the scenes?
Also, looking through the various command lines that other contributors have suggested when using rsync, I am a little confused as to which optional commands are necessary for a PURELY "photo and video" library.
For the optional commands, I think the ones that are a MUST for me are:
-a - "archive" rsync, includes ownership info and extended attributes extremely useful for moving large volumes of data and keeping AD/OD/POSIX permissions intact
-v - "verbose" gives the user more information on the rsync display
-x - prevents crossing filesystem boundaries
-t - preserves modified time
--delete
This tells rsync to delete any files on the receiving side that aren't on the sending side. Files that are excluded from transfer are excluded from being deleted
....Optionally, I could add the following to view the progress:
--stats
This tells rsync to print a verbose set of statistics on the file transfer, allowing you to tell how effective the rsync algorithm is for your data.
Q2: Is there anything else I should be adding?
Q3: Also, I saw that one contributor used "bash" at the start of the command line. Is this necessary for my specific purpose?
Q4: Snow Leopard comes with rsync version 2.6.9 version 29.   I know that version 3.1.0 is already out, but this would require an installation step (possibly using come Terminal commands, or something like "MacPort"), then adding patches, and perhaps some steps that I haven't mentioned. Is version 3.1.0 really necessary, and in what way? Much faster? Better Integrity of the back-up? Other? (o.k., that was more than one question)
Q5: Is there a command to preserve the "CREATED" time of the photo? Is this taken care of by the " -a " or the " -t "?
Thanks,
Sam

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sling74 wrote:
Hi Tony,
Thanks for your quick reply.
A few other questions:
1.     What is the -N command for? I could not see it on the rsync.samba.org website.
2.     My friend does not have CCC. She's also using Snow Leopard 10.6.8. What are the steps to properly install the newest version of rsync?
3.    For myself, what would be the disadvantage of using CCC directly rather than accessing it via Terminal? When running CCC, what are the default commands being used?
Thanks,
Sam
Hi Tony,
Thanks for your quick reply.
A few other questions:
1.     What is the -N command for? I could not see it on the rsync.samba.org website.
That's added with the crtimes patch:
     -N, --crtimes               preserve create times (newness)
2.     My friend does not have CCC. She's also using Snow Leopard 10.6.8. What are the steps to properly install the newest version of rsync?
Here's what I do:
1. Download and unarchive rsync and its patches
    a. Move patches directory to rsync-3.1.0
    b. cd rsync-3.1.0
2. Apply patches relevant to preserving Mac OS X metadata
       patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
       patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff
3. Apply patch relevant to preserving Mac OS X hfs+compression
      patch -p1 <patches/hfs-compression.diff
4. Configure, make, install
        ./prepare-source
        ./configure
        make
        sudo make install
5. Verify your installation
      rsync --version
By default, rsync will be installed in /usr/local/bin.
If that isn't in your path, you will need to call
your new version of rsync by its absolute
path in /usr/local/bin (you will most likely need to do this
and --version will verify that you have the right version)
(from: Configuring Mac OS X for Unattended Backup Using rsync and updated for hfs+compression patch)
3.    For myself, what would be the disadvantage of using CCC directly rather than accessing it via Terminal? When running CCC, what are the default commands being used?
No disadvantages that I'm aware of.
I'm not sure what defaults that Mike is using now, but most of the the flags that I use and posted are from the link above from Mike a few years ago.

Creating a Video Gallery

I am creating a video gallery for a website. I am quite new
to Flash 8 and I am wondering whether it is possible to do the
following:
The file will contain a video player at the top that will
play all the video clips. Underneath will be a library that will
start off as four thumbnails and their will be an 'Expand All'
button. Once clicked, the gallery will expand in flash to show
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thumbnails the video will load up in the above player.
I have created the library so that it expands and collapses,
but I am struggling (have no idea) on how to make the thumbnails
link to play the corresponding videos at the top!
Is it possible?

Thanks for the advice, I must have done something wrong
though as it has not worked.
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How to add my video library to iPad g3 from MacBook Pro?

How to add my video library to iPad g3 from MacBook Pro?

What sort of videos are they, and what app do you want to sync them to ? If they were taken with your camera and they are in a format supported by the iPad, then you could sync them to the Photos app - with the iPad connected and selected on the left-hand side of your computer's iTunes, you can use the Photos tab on the right-hand side of iTunes to sync photos and videos (there is an 'include videos' tickbox on that tab) to the Photos app.
Or you can sync them to the Videos app. If you can add them to your iTunes library (File > Add To Library) you can then use Movies tab (instead of the Photos tab) to sync them to the Videos app. If you can add them to your library but they don't sync over because they aren't in a supported format then try doing Advanced > Create iPad Version and then try syncing those versions.

Creating large video portfolio site? Project's getting slow and buggy? Here's a solution:

If, like me, you're creating a large video portfolio site (over 50 vids) in Edge, you may find after a while elements on the stage start to vanish (they're still there but invisible) and the program REALLY slows down. And lots of crashes. I've asked the experts and the response generally seems to be "Site's way too big!" HOWEVER, I have a good workaround:
After importing a Mpeg4 and Webm file into the video library, put it into your design, animate it, add functions, preview it, etc - then DELETE it from the media folder! The elements remain with all the attributes and code attached on the timeline, stage and elements window - but it's just a placeholder. Once you've done this, you can move on adding more and more videos, repeating this process. The project file never gets too big or slow! Then right at the end, put all the Mpeg4 and webm files back in the media folder. You might not be able to launch the project and preview (it'll be too big) but you can still drop it on your browser to check. And, if all's good, upload. If there are things that still need fixing, take the video files back out the Media folder so that when you launch the project file again to make amendments, it'll run smoothly. After fixing, put the videos back.
Hopefully in the next full version, Edge is made more robust and able to tackle.

If, like me, you're creating a large video portfolio site (over 50 vids) in Edge, you may find after a while elements on the stage start to vanish (they're still there but invisible) and the program REALLY slows down. And lots of crashes. I've asked the experts and the response generally seems to be "Site's way too big!" HOWEVER, I have a good workaround:
After importing a Mpeg4 and Webm file into the video library, put it into your design, animate it, add functions, preview it, etc - then DELETE it from the media folder! The elements remain with all the attributes and code attached on the timeline, stage and elements window - but it's just a placeholder. Once you've done this, you can move on adding more and more videos, repeating this process. The project file never gets too big or slow! Then right at the end, put all the Mpeg4 and webm files back in the media folder. You might not be able to launch the project and preview (it'll be too big) but you can still drop it on your browser to check. And, if all's good, upload. If there are things that still need fixing, take the video files back out the Media folder so that when you launch the project file again to make amendments, it'll run smoothly. After fixing, put the videos back.
Hopefully in the next full version, Edge is made more robust and able to tackle.

Uses for creating a Video Album

Does anyone have any advice on using iMovie to create a video album? I know that you can do this and iMovie has great effects for stills such as Ken Burns effect, etc, but just wondering if this is the best way to go about doing this. Would Keynote work better, give more options, more creative options, etc than iMovie?
I don't plan to add any video. I will only be adding photos from my Aperture library.
Thanks for any feedback and input.

If you don't need control over your slideshow and don't need titles, effects, etc. iPhoto works. iMovie gives you a lot more flexibility and the editing is very fast.
Use Keynote if your information is primarily graphical or textual and you are spicing it up with photos.
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Creating HD video clip

I'm not sure if im in the right forum but I'm trying to find out what program i can use to create up to a 5 minute hd video clip for my golf instruction video library. I'm currently using a sony DCR-TRV950 3CCD video camera. I'm not sure if this camera even produces HD video although it does produce a clean video. Are there any programs that came pre installed on my imac 24 that could produce such hD video such as imovie, idvd or do i need to purchase a seperate program? Thank you, Owen
imac 24 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 500g hd 2g ram
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You should be able to use iMovie HD 6 which is pre-installed on the Mac. You can find instructions on using iMovie in the Help menu. Also here is a link to the iMovie forum.
Have fun.

Cannot Install Graphical Video Library 2.2 Qosmio F50

Hi, I'm looking for some help installed the Toshiba Graphical Video Library 2.2 update for Windows 7.
I done a clean install of Windows 7 ultimate on my Toshiba Qosmio F50-10Z, everything installed fine including the Flash Cards. But I have a problem installing the Graphical Video Library 2.2 update. I downloaded the Windows 7 GVL version from the support page and found that the update includes 2 folders 1.2 (?) and 2.2.
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I have my entire library of photos on my iMac in iPhoto 6.0.6. I recently spent quite a bit of time cleaning up what had been a rather messy, unorganized, photo library. My organizational method consisted of consolidating old film rolls which were inherited from original imports that were in different folders by moving groups of photos into single "film rolls" for older years and making fewer rolls for the last few years. I then went back through and corrected photo dates for a bunch of images that were scanned in, etc. I downloaded Keyword Manager, which I like a lot, and applied keywords to every photo in my collection. I also deleted a bunch of old photos which were too similar to better shots or simply not worth keeping. Once I finished all of this I had my new library consisting of 1892 pictures, which I hoped to backup and allow to serve as a "gold master copy" of all of my photos to date. In browsing the database in Finder, I noted that there were a lot of images in the "Original" folders that were not in the library. Some of these were images I had deleted in the library. (I know better than to do anything through the finder other than browse. I know that to maintain integrity of the library it is necessary to only perform actions through iPhoto.) I did a database rebuild and asked iPhoto to recover orphaned files which did nothing. I really wanted this database to be in pristine condition since I was using it as my master copy, but could not figure out how to do away with old unwanted images in the "originals" folders. I went ahead and created a DVD library with "Share -> Burn", and voila, the new iPhoto Library that was created on the DVD appeared to be "clean" with only the 1892 pictures in my viewable library existing in the Originals folder. OK, so far so good. I then took the DVD I had burned and attempted to replicate my library on my iBook which had a clean install of iLife '06 on it. When I launched iPhoto with the DVD in place it showed me an empty hard drive library and the burned library from the DVD. At first I attempted to just copy individual Film Rolls from the DVD to the local library. While this worked in bring the images over, the keywords became all jumbled. The resulting photos would have keywords attached which did not belong to them and were different from what was on the DVD. I then deleted the iBook library and tried copying the entire iPhoto Library folder from the DVD to the iBook via the Finder. When I relaunched iPhoto, presto all the photos were in my local library with keywords, film rolls and other metadata intact. However in browsing the library I came across a few photos which would cause iPhoto to crash when I tried to edit them. This was a consistent behavior on specific images. Reading through the forums I came across the color profile bug and through testing verified that this was not the problem. Meanwhile back on the iMac I could edit the photos in question with no problem. I verified that the image had not been corrupted during the DVD burn as well. The files are identical between the iMac and the iBook. I know this is a long drawn out post, but if anybody has read this far, here are my questions ...
1) What is the best way to go about creating a "clean" database with internal integrity after a doing a lot of edits and metadata changes? Shouldn't the burn to DVD do what I want?
2) How come when I copied subsets of my library over to a new machine from the DVD, the keywords seemed to get all jumbled? Is it a matter of indexing them? If I added all the keywords to an empty library before copying the images over, would it work? Is there not a way to just copy portions of a DVD library into another library?
3) Any ideas on the crash while attempting to edit problem? The image will load as a thumbnail, and then briefly flas the full size image, before iPhoto crashes and pops up a dialog asking if I want to restart it.
Thanks for staying with me!
Mark

Problems solved with iPhoto Manager's rebuild function! Thanks to Brian Webster of Fat Cat Software. Great program!
Mark

I'm using Windows 8. I have 2 folders in my videos library - movies and personal videos. When I try to import a movie into iTunes, it puts it in the Home Video section and if I import a personal video, it puts it into the home video section. what up?

Im using Win8. I originally had all my ripped movies in a movie folder listed in the videos library. This imported into iTunes movies with no issue. I later added a second folder t my library - personal videos where i put all my home videos. I was able to import this into iTunes and it showed up in "Home Movies" - very cool and exactly what I wanted. Now, if I add a new ripped movie and put it in my movie librairy and try to import it into iTunes, it places it in Home Movies. And if I put a new personal video, it will also import into iTunes under 'Home Video?. What is going on here?? Any help would be greatly appreciated - it seems like this is a bug in iTunes 11.

I thank you for the response. Apple does some assinine things sometimes and this is one of them. Ask the planet the difference between a movie and a home video and with the exception of Apple, you'd get 100% consenus on the what difference is. A home video is something that I shoot, like my kids birthday party. A movie is something I urchased either via download or a DVD that I ripped. Unbelievable! The fact that Apple has chosen not to distinguish based upon which folder I tell it is Movies and which folder is Home Videos is really hard to fathom - sounds like something Windows would do. I find it funny that in my iTunes movies sub-section of the movies section, the movie icons have a cloud icon in upper right corner to distinguish it as bought from Apple iTunes versus no cloud icon for movies that I have ripped - so the distintion was already made and clearly visible. Now - everything just defaults to "home videos" if I try to import a new ripped DVD - why even bother to have this distinction on the iTunes bar? WOW!
As for your direction, I do not understand what you are telling me - what Media Kind and what Options tab are you referring to? I see no Options tab in iTunes. Right licking on the movie icon does not yield media kind or options as well. Gping to the source file does not yield these options either.
Thanks again for your help.
Clay

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