Emac resolution question

My children have an emac, handed down. They also like to play the I Spy games. Our problem is, the game only uses what I guess is 800x600 resolution...or even maybe 640 x 480(?). Anyway, when the game runs, it is very small on the screen with black border all the way around. The only way to get the game to fill the screen is to manually adjust the mac resolution before running the game. We can't keep the mac at that resolution as it doesn't work well with everything else. There are no resolution settings in the game that I can find. Is there a way to have the mac automatically change the resolution when we run the game?
Thank you for any advice.

I'm not familar with the games you mention, but to make manual resolution switching easier, open System Preferences, Displays, and check the box to show Displays in the menu bar. You can then click on the menubar display icon to open a pop-up list to more easily switch resolutions.

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Another resolution question.....sorry

Thanks to Zac and Bogie for helping me out with the whole resolution questions but I do have one more....sorry. Do I need to log and capture in FCP in order to import the file into compressor to change the codec or is there another way? Maybe direct from the camera so it doesn;t get any more compressed than it is?
Thanks again for putting up with me
Rick

If you shot on DV, for example, capturing it isn't compressing more. It is what it is. You shot it DV, it is DV. What's on the tape isn't "better" than what gets captured to your hard drive.
Anyway, yes, you have to capture or ingest the footage or have some sort of existing movie file to put it into Compressor. You can't take it from the camera directly.

Replacement MBP; resolution questions

My previous MBP (17" 2010-ish model) died a week or so back and I'm now in the process of looking into a replacement. I do have some questions I'd like someone to help me out on, all mostly resolution related.
So the first few are related to old software:
I have Photoshop/Premiere Pro CS5.5, which Adobe seems to have given me the finger over in regards to resolution compatability because it's not CS6 or above. Without having seen a Retina Display MBP running any CS5 software (and I'm unlikely ever to at this point) I'm unaware of how atrocious it supposidly looks running on such a machine. How bad/acceptable does it look on a Retina Display MBP? Slightly fuzzy or downright horrid?
Are there any third party plugins or software to bring it Retina support? Same questions applied to Office 2011 and stuff like Google Chrome. How a Retina Display MBP treats my old software is the biggest deal breaker as to whether I simply buy a Retina Display or pre-Retina Display model. I'm not interested in upgrading to CS6 simply because Adobe clearly hates their older customers.
Hardware:
IF the answers to the above are "no" or "you'll have to upgrade your software" and I went ahead and acquired an older Macbook Pro, for this example a 2011-12 15" (even refurbished) model at a 1680x1050 resolution, how does this affect output to an external screen?
Can the external screen display a 1920x1080/20 resolution on a system without a native 1920x1020 resolution like the 17" model did? Using the example machine's native resolution when using it by itself is not a problem for me, but not being able to get the desired external resolution when it's connected to another screen is.
I'd very much appreciate it if someone could help me out here. I don't want to pay a ton of money for something that doesn't apply to the above.

Your replacement came out of a warehouse not off the assembly line.
Jim
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Image size and resolution question.

Is an image at W 48.667 x H 32.444 inches at 72 res the same as an image that I could convert in photoshop to 300 res and then the with "Resample Image" clicked off would be W 11.68 x H 7.78 at 300 res for printing purposes? I'm asking this questions because after exporting 200 images from Lightroom 1.4, putting them into an wedding album I realized the images were not at 300 res but the first size listed above. I'm trying not to have to rebatch and have to put them back into the album. I sent the question to NAPP and got this back"
"If you do the math you'll see that the answer is "no."
48x72=3456 pixels; 32x72=2304 pixels
11.68x300=3504 pixels; 7.78x300=2334 pixels."
I did the math and it comes up to 5760 vs 5830. Pretty darn close. So would an image printed out with both settings print the about the same quality or am I missing something?
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Bob

Bob's question is a common one. And one of the first that most of us struggled to understand. Let's see if I can shed some light to help clarify the matter.
o The image starts out with a given number of pixels from the camera, scanner, or whatever was its source. The resolution only matters when it comes time to print the image.
72 dpi was once a common resolution for displaying on a computer monitor. Today 90 dpi is more common monitor resolution.
o Let's assume that the image is 3504 x 2336 pixels (which I got from his size @ 72 dpi).
o In "image size", if you do _not_ have 'resample image' checked, all you are doing is _rescaling the image. The image resolution is whatever you enter ...
For example, if you enter 360 dpi -- the native printing resolution of many Epson printers -- you get a print size of 9.733 x 6.489 inches
o Let's say you want to print this image at 360 dpi in portrait on 13 x 19 inch paper with a one inch border on the sides. That would make the short dimension of the image 11 inches and the long would work out to 16.5.
To do that you need to _resample_ the image to change the size. More pixels will be made. The resolution stays at 360 dpi. So check the 'resample image' box.
After resampling to get the print size and resolution you want, the pixel dimension goes to 5960 x 3960 (from 3504 x 2336). Those new pixels came at a price, but that is a matter for another thread and a lot of personal bias.
Hope that helped.
P.S. The answer to your question, Bob, is yes. With resample off in PhotoShop, your original images should have gone to 11.68 x 7.787 inches @300 dpi.
In looking at the rest of your original post, it seems that the export didn't work the way that you wanted. Do I read right that the images turned out to be 11.68 x 7.787 @ 72 dpi? Can't help with that as I don't do Lightroom.

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What resolution should I use to scan in my printed 4x6 photos to get the best result from iPhoto book? Is 300 ppi sufficient, or should I use 400 or higher? Don't want to scan higher than needed since the files are quite large. Don't know what the resolution is of the printer used by Apple.
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Jeff - thanks so much for your reply - very helpful. I'm scanning them all in at 600 dpi to give me options of printing some large.
Another question - does anyone have experience with making photo albums from other programs/services? Are they all about the same in terms of quality? From the few I've checked out, they all look pretty much the same (as advertised) so I'm guessing they are using similar printers/processes and that quality would be about the same. In which case, I can go ahead and be confident that even though I will use iPhoto book because I am a die-hard Mac user and iPhoto is so easy to use, I'm not losing out on a better quality book that might be available through another software/service.
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IPhone resolution question

Hi, i have some folios in the normal ipad resolution 1024x768 and i want to change now to iphone 5/6 resolution
couple questions:
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If you create an 1136x640 folio, it will show up on iPhone 5 and later but not iPhone 4s and earlier.
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Export resolution and camera resolution question

I am thinking of buying a new camera- specifically one that will film video in widescreen as well as widescreen photo's. I have been looking at some that have a maximum video resolution of 848x480, which will come out fine.
With iMovie, so far I have been using my wife's Casio camera which records video at 640x480 (4:3 ratio), and I have been cropping the video in iMovie and exporting as 640x360 widescreen. The next resolution up from 640x360 in iMovies export settings is 960x540.
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PXI 6224 linear position encoder resolution question

Hello,
I am using Quadrature Encoder connected to the counter 0 of NI PXI 6224. As shown in the picture, the decoder is working at X4 mode, I set Distance per Pulse as 2. The measured waveform looks like the resolution is 0.5.
My question is:
Isn't the measurement resolution equal to Distance per Pulse?
Thanks,
JSI
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It's a case of somewhat ambiguous terminology. I've never been real happy with their choice of the term "pulse" for configuring quadrature encoders -- I would prefer a term like "cycle."
The value you wire in should be the distance represented by 1 full quadrature cycle. (Since this will be the distance from rising edge to rising edge on one of the quadrature signals, you can kinda see how someone decided to refer to that span as a "pulse.") If you measure in X4 mode, you'll produce 4 increments of measurement per cycle. That's why you see the 0.5 quantization when wiring a value of 2.
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Adjusting size and resolution question!

I'm trying to adjust size/resolution of a collage that I created so that it will look good when printed on a 20 X 30 canvas. How do I know the proper size and resolution to change it to?

We don't even know what program you are referring to, so it will be impossible to advise. In any case, usage questions are best asked in the product specific forums.
Mylenium

Image size related to screen resolution - Questions

Trying hard to get my head around picture dimensions vs quality vs screen/printer resolution, can anyone confirm if what I think I understand is correct.
My Canon RAW images are 3888 x 2592 pixels. If I export from LR a full sized JPEG (at 100% quality) I get an image that is 3888 x 2592 pixels in size. So the questions:
1) If I open the JPEG in something simple like Windows Picture Viewer and hit the 'Actual Size' button then put simply is each pixel in the picture lighting up a pixel on the screen ?
2) If I zoom out then presumably there are more picture pixels than screen pixels so some data is thrown away and there is some downsizing of the image ?
3) If I zoom in then there is not enough data and there is some intrpolation to upsize the image ?
What I'm actually trying to get to grips with is, if i want to post pics online or e-mail them, when to drop the quality a bit to save filespace and when to change image size.
Cheers

Downsample a LOT for email and quite a lot for web viewing. Not only might they not look as good as they should, people will not be happy waiting for a 3000+ pixel image to download to them.
A "full width"
Of course, if someone wants to print the photo, then you need to maintain the resolution and they should know it will take some time to download.
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Video resolution question on retina

I am sorry if this has been asked before but I could not find an answer.
I am considering getting an iPod Touch 4. I realize the retina display will make almost everything look great, but I also want to watch movies or tv shows during lunch breaks. My question is this...if I want to encode my own DVDs (I do not have Blu-ray currently) how will they look on the retina display?
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They will look youtube videos, they aren't awesome as High Definition, but they aren't that bad.
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Hi and sorry for any dupliation of this question
My main monitor is an Acer G246HL - it's 24" with a max resolution of 1920x1080.
Looking to run an external display mirroring the same as the master monitor.
So even if i buy a smaller screen-size, if the 2nd monitor (an Acer 21.5") is capable of
1920x1080 resolution, i shouldn't have any problem with undistorted display on both
monitors, right? Hopefully so, since i ordered one. (I'd be running one off the HDMI
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Mike

Good to hear, wasn't sure if the fact the screen size was smaller would matter but thanks for confirming it'll work.
Mike

External monitor resolutions question

According to System Preferences, I currently have a maximum resolution of 1280x960 on my built-in monitor.
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will I be limited to 1280x960 on the external monitor as well?
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I bought an LG w2361V 23" monitor (full HD) for use with my MPB. I have it hooked up via mini to VGA adapter.
The native resolution is 1920x1080, but at that setting (via Apple, System Preferences, Displays) the right 2 inches of the monitor are not used (i.e. a black bar). At 1680 x 1050 the entire monitor space is used. The problem with 1680 x 1050 is that (in Keynote anyway) things like pie charts look stretched in stead of circular. Why will it not work at the higher resolution? What can I do?
Is there a monitor that works particularly well with Mac? (I don't want to pay the big bucks for an apple monitor).
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bob

OK, I have tried everything in
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2004318&start=0&tstart=0
with no resolution. But I do know how to frame the question better.
I am running Mac Book Pro 10.5.7 with a new external LGw2361v 23" monitor, native 1920x1080 60ghz over a mini to vga cable. The 1920x1080 has always appeared in apple's display utility, but when I choose it, I get a letter box screen image (i.e. two 1" black bars on each side or one 2" black bar on right). I would expect it to fill the entire screen.
Any other ideas how to get rid of the letterbox?
Is there a way to scale or stretch the image? I tried SwitchResX, but that did not resolve the problem.
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bob

IMac 24 inch resolution question

Hi there,
I'm considering buying a new iMac and can't quite decide which one to get. Basically I might (very occasionally) want to boot into windows (through Bootcamp) and play a few of the games I've collected. I know the iMac's not great for gaming but it would be nice if it could run reasonably (I'm using a 3 year old laptop at the moment so my expectations aren't that high)
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According to various internet sites, the chipsets in two cards available for the 24 inch iMac, the Geforce 7300 GT and Geforce 7600 GT, both support "floating point texture". I can't find any specific references to the implementation in the Apple 24 inch iMac Intel, but I would doubt it is delibrately removed.
So, what good that actually does you is anyone's guess, but yes, it seems to be in there.

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