Last minute help... looking for music

I am looking for a 3-4 minute piece of music that I can use for a faces video... My plan for the 4 day conference is to take pictures throughout the days and then create a video each evening... to be shown in the moninr.
I am looking for suggestions for an up lifting piece of music that would be appropriate for this type of video....
Have you created this type of end of conference video? What type of music do you use? any titles in particular?
Thank you for all your help..
-Steven

Finding the perfect piece of music to fit a particular project is one of the best parts of the editing process. Trying music that seems ridiculous sometimes works out great, a lot of times not, but hey that's part of the fun. What do you want: Instrumental? Copyrighted? Free? I'm sure there's tons of those types of videos out there that you could get "inspired" by.
Whenever I do find that perfect piece of music though, before I bring it into Final Cut,
I make sure that I convert it to a 48K, 16bit .aiff first.

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TS4124 i didnt have issues with itunes before. but pc asked to download new version. i did. when i click itunes i get my original music, but when i click store...i get nothing. i watched tutorial...wont open itunes store. im looking for music

i didnt have issues with itunes before...but pc asked to download new version. i did. when i click itunes i get my original music, but when i click store...i get nothing. i watched tutorial....but still cant open itunes store. im looking for music to buy.

Hello bogley
Check out the article below for troubleshooting access to the iTunes Store.
Can't connect to the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1368
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

We are looking for music hits according to various decades. iTunes used to have a hits of the 30s -90s etc. I can no longer find it. Any hints people?

We are looking for music hits according to various decades. iTunes used to have a hits of the 30s -90s etc. I can no longer find it. Any hints people?
Also, what are the legalities about sharing music? At what point does a song become part of the public domain?
Thank you! Gershawn

Alli hello,
Quit iTunes...
Download Cocktail and start the program... click on the 'interface' Icon and tick 'Show Invisible Items' then click the Restart button...
In a finder window click on the Icon that is your Boot Volume in the Side Bar ... select users ... select shared folder ... select the folder named 'SC info' and put it in the trash and empty it ... Do Not touch any other file.
Pathway looks like this HD > users > shared > SC info > SC Info.sidb
Go back to the Cocktail 'interface' window and untick Show Invisible Items and click restart .. quit Cocktail.
Start iTunes after deletinng this folder and it will prompt you to enter your authorization information again ... see now if your problem still exists...
Let's know how you get on Alli ... take care ... TP

I'm trying to make a time sheet and include a grid, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to print a full grid on my spreadsheet. There are options for shaded grids but I want a defined grid, and I have spent the last 2 hours looking for the answer

I'm trying to make a time sheet and include a grid, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to print a full grid on my spreadsheet. There are options for shaded grids but I want a defined grid, and I have spent the last 2 hours looking for the answer. Any ideas?

Hi Cynthia,
Are you planning to have this table do any of the calculation, or is is to be used as the electronic equivalent of a sheet of paper with a grid printed on it—a place to record the data.
For your seven column table:
Are you using one or more rows at the top of the table to label the data below? If so, you might want this row (or these rows) to be set as Header Rows.
Are you using the leftmost column to label the rows? If so, you may want this column to be a Header column.
The default table supplied on the "Blank" templates contains one header row and one header column. If you need more (or fewer) Header rows or columns, select the table, then go Table (menu) > Header Rows > (choose the number you need). Repeat to set the number of Header Columns.
To make a seven column table from the table supplied by default, click on any cell in column H (The eighth column), and drag right to add more cells to the selection, until you get to the last column of the table. With these cells selected, Go Table > Delete Columns.
To make the remaining seven columns fit across a single page:
Go View > Show Print View to show the table as it would appear when printed to paper.
Select the table by clicking its icon in the Sheets List to the left (easy method), OR by carefully clicking on the outside boundary of the table itself (fiddley method).
With the table selected, you will see square white handles at each corner and at the middle of each side (including the top and bottom).
With the mouse, grab the handle in the middle of the right side of the table and drag right (or left) until the table just fits onto the width of the defined page.
With the table still selected, set the thickness and colour of the cell boundaries using the Gaphics Inspector (as described by Jerry), or using the Stroke, Thickness and Color Well controls in the Format bar above the working portion of the Window.
Regards,
Barry

HT201272 click the tab for the content type you're looking for (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, or Books). No. a lie

"From your Purchased page, click the tab for the content type you're looking for (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, or Books)."
Ok, Movies only in US.. that is fine.. BUT I only have Apps and Books to select. Where is my option to download my music again? I can see my purchases under my account but from the store trying to follow the described method - impossible!
I don't care about apps or books.. music.. I want my paid music. No wonder people pirate music?!

Zesty.Zooma wrote:
But will I be able to keep the data stored in the applications, photos, books and also the sorting and the folder arrangements the same way they were, after erasing all the data and synchornizing with the new library?
That is the aim of the process set out here: Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
tt2

How do I get iTunes to look for music on my computer

Here's the problem: So on my old HP laptop I had around 5500 song files saved/stored in various locations all compiled for easy access through iTunes, as in I could access all of them there; standard, no problems, what everyone expects.
On it's last limb I completely backed the computer's C drive contents to an external harddrive. What I didn't expect was that there would be no organizational structure of the backup: merely 3 folders each containing a series of ~50-300 subfolders of backed up content (zipped, at that time, mind you). Around 88 GB in all, which is interesting because it was 140GB in size on the hp before being backed up.
Towards the process of unzipping all of them, I unzipped only the very first sub folder which contained around 50 song files (this isn't to say each folder just has songs; there's tons of other random files ranging from documents to programs to random coding) before opening iTunes for the first time.
This part is critical to understanding my issue. When I opened iTunes for the very first time and it was initializing its components, doing a startup etc., I had only unzipped that one folder; none of the hundreds of others had yet been unloaded onto my mac's harddrive and viewable as downloads.
During the guided installation process iTunes prompted me at one point and asked if it wanted to "search for music already on this computer" or something like that. I said yes and it seamlessly uploaded the 50 or so songs.
The problem is I wish I had waited until I unziped everything because I don't know how to access that feature again, in that I do not want to manually dig through each download folder and upload songs individually when I know there's a feature that can look through my computer's hard drive for me and upload mp3 and similar files in a fraction on an instant. For example, when I downloaded and opened Spotify, it did this on it's own (although it included a bunch of duplicate files so there's around 7700). Some may question why I don't just use Spotify for my library then and I'd respond by saying I don't like it, I'm not used to it, and iTunes is more compatible/easier to customize, create playlists, sync with iPhone, iPod, etc.
I've even tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes (using this method: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4045) to no avail; once I opened it again for the first time after reinstallation it already has included only those ~50 songs and doesn't prompt that "search for music on this computer" feature or whatever. I actually think that feature accompanied my mac as a startup, when I started the computer for the first time from factory settings.
I'm hesitant to completely wipe my computer because one, I've already been using it for a couple weeks and don't want to do another back up (I'm not very mac savvy if you can't already tell) and two I don't even know if that will work.
I want all my songs from my computer all accessible to one area: iTunes. Please help!

In itunes preferences, Advanced make sure the two following options are checked
Keep Itunes Media Folder organised
Copy files to itunes Media folder when adding to library
The box above that should have your iTunes Media folder path
/Users/username/Music/iTunes/itunes Media.
If you still have the original 50 songs on your harddrive delete them form itunes. Then drag your external Hard Drive icon into itunes and it should identify and copy all your music files to your new machines.
Check that everything is there then you can do a freah backup to the external drive with everything in its correct folder

Last-minute help! Video quality drops after burn

I'm exporting a video out of FCP using Compressor, saving directly to the DVD format for burning inside DVD Studio Pro. When I preview the video inside DSP, it looks amazing. After I finish burning the disc and view it in DVD Player, the video quality looks horrible.
See a screenshot here:
http://www.door62.com/temp/DVD-quality.jpg
The one on the left is DVD Player, the one on the right is the preview inside DSP.
Any advice? This is actually ridiculously last-minute... Any help would be hugely appreciated

I have been having simliar trouble, esp. with textured backgrounds in the video.
Specifically, someone sitting in a board room delivering a short message (2 minutes) on camera. The background is a textured wood panel with a continuously changing color gradient.
I encode in Compressor, NTSC lower field, 2-pass VBR, 6.1 Mbps avg., 7.2 Mbps max., AIF audio. I have also tried a number of bit rate variations including CBR and AC3 audio.
I drop the clip in a DVDSP track and it looks fine in simulator. Also open the m2v in QT Pro, it looks fine.
After building, I check the TS_Folder in Apple DVD Player, and the background pulses, shifting from light to dark and is filled with artifacts. It looks even worse on a set-top player.
I have had problems like this a number of times, and end up having to use other programs on Windows to get around it. Kind of a pain.
Has anyone else seen anything like this?
G5 Dual 2.3 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.5 GB RAM, ROM v5.2.4f1
G5 Dual 2.3 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.5 GB RAM, ROM v5.2.4f1

Help: looking for Serialization suggestions (on strategies and products)

Hello,
I'm looking for suggestions on how to tackle a Serialization issue. Suggestions on tools to use, and approaches for "do it yourself" coding are both needed.
I need to serialize a large evolving codebase with a minimum of rewriting (overriding readObject... for each class is out of the question, likewise embeding metadata comments for all classes is also out of the question). Currently the codebase is using Java's default Object Serialization (to a binary array). This is completely unacceptable for the long term (object versioning and migrations are a nightmare).
As such I've determined that JSX/JSX2 looks like a feasable solution (the pricing is nice; the mechanism wrappers readObject, writeObject (so a minimum of recoding); they automatically map objects back and forth and don't require Objects to be constrained (with meta data, being a given format (such as beans...))). I was leaning towards Object -> XML because:
1) it is easy to read and therefore parse / upgrade / version
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An update:
Actually Castor didn't look as "full featured" as I originally thought...
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serialization. Basically one will be able to save, delete, and
retrieve objects without needing predefined DB-Object mapping
files.
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transactionalism (either the backing db supports it or you code it
into your db wrapper layer).
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it as strategic for the long term growth of the project (it will
enable users to transition from "dumb" auto-maps to "smart" custom
ones seemlessly
I'm going to open another thread about this on the forum.

Looking For: Music Software That Displays Lyric

I know itunes display lyrics when you right click on the song, and click info, but it is very inconvenient. Anyone know any user friendly music-player program that automatically displays easy-to-read lyrics?

Any other software? (By the way, I am using a PC).
I know that windows media player has the lyric feature, but i cannot change the size of the font. I am looking for a free music player that actually displayes LARGE and CLEAR font for the music I play on my PC.

How do i change where itunes looks for music on my computer? It would only use sample music and to import thousands of songs a file at a time is ridiculous, please help!

Had to install a new version of iTunes after an upgrade to 64Bit Windows, when i got itunes to search for content it only found the sample music, my music is stored on D drive and i cant work out how to get itunes to search there, any suggestions?
Thanks in advance, its really annoying!

You can use File > Add folder to library to import the media from any location. If you don't see the menu bar press ALT or CTRL+B to display it. The default options for iTunes will have created a new library folder on the C: drive, and adding media in the way described will result in iTunes making new copies of each of your media files in the C:\ drive. If that's not what you want then I suggest you hold down the shift key as you click the icon to start iTunes and keep holding until asked to choose or create a library, click the create option, and create a libray at D:\iTunes. Move your existing media content into D:\iTUnes\iTunes Media and use File > Add folder to library to import D:\iTUnes\iTunes Media. This will make a self-contained portable library that is easy to backup & move in future.
tt2

How I want to use iCloud + my PC, help/look for answers here

Howdy all, I will be updating this if i manage to fix my problems
So I love my iPad, and I will soon get an iphone. But regardless of those purchases, I still have a PC and I will continue using it.
But I love my iPad as my main personal organizer, (contacts, calendar, etc). So I want to be able to use my iPad to update stuff and have my contacts, calendar, and purchases apply to my PC as well as my future iPhone. Since apple devices sync my easily, I decided to make this discussion to help others as well as my self set up apple to windows related things.
And please, back up your device before anything, just incase.
I am using:
Windows 7 home edition 64bit
iTunes 10
iPad IOS 5
Outlook 2010
I don't think I have to list anything else, but if I do, just ask!
So what I am trying to do -
PLEASE TELL ME IF I AM WRONG, Thats the point me doing this
Apps - This part is DONE
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH1620?viewlocale=en_US
So, you have to turn the MUSIC, APPs, BOOKS on through iTunes(PC) as well as your devices. So now, buying apps, as long as you devices/PC has your account logged in, it should apply my purchase to all of them at once.
Book Marks- This part is DONE
I like to use chrome. But to sync them together, I exported all of my Chrome bookmarks, and shoved it into Safari, it seemed easier than using IE.
I then synced my ipad's book marks into Safari. Now Safari, on my PC, contains ALL of my iPad and Chrome book marks. I then exported the bookmarks from safari and imported it into Chrome. A bit longer and annoying, but it worked.
So from now on, all Chrome bookmarks on my PC will have to be added to Safari. And my iPad bookmarks, will require me to carry it from Safari to Chrome.
Photos - This part is DONE
So, in my own opinion, Photo stream is stupid. All this is, is Dropbox for pictures.
On a PC, after setting it up, it will give you a Photo Stream Folder. ANY pictures you put into Photo Stream Folder will be on photo stream and sync to all of your devices that have it turned on. But, in order to KEEP this picture, you must save each one or else it will auto delete in 30 days.
But, any photo that you take SHOULD automatically download into your PC. Which will also require you to save the photos into a different folder.
My boss at work figured this part out. IN ORDER TO ERASE photos off of photo stream, you will have to reset photo stream, which will kill the cloud distrubution of the pictures to each device, and erase those pictures on the cloud. Then you have to delete it off each device.
We believe that apple will change this. I mean, its kind of pointless if you can erase the pictures.
This part is where I had to use Outlook 2010.
Please note, This is a brand new outlook, I do not care about anything previously inside and there is nothing for me to erase or lose
eMails - This part is DONE
So the point of this part is to sync your iPad mails with your Outlook 2010. I don't use this, because I still prefer to go to each of my 3 individual email accounts to send mail. If I were out and about, I would be accessing each email through the website or my iPad, so I do not see the point in setting up the email sync.
But in order to use eMail, contact, calendar sync with Outlook, I had to make a default account. I HAVE NO CLUE what that means, but the error was this
"Setup can not continue becuase outlook isnt configured to have a defualt profile. Check your outlook settings and try again."
So find the settings a set a default account. IF you wanted to set the account to your @me.com account, then you will have to connect that email to outlook. But, it WONT WORK! I used these settings
p99-imap.mail.me.com > incoming
p99-smtp.mail.me.com > outgoing
check remember password and SPA
then go to "more settings" > "Advanced" tab and enter
For IMAP Port :"993" or just choose SSL from the encrytion dropdown
For SMTP Port : "587" and choose Auto from the encrytion dropdown. (do not choose SSL)
then goto outgoing server tab
check first box ...SMTP
Provided by https://discussions.apple.com/message/16351758#16351758
Calendar - This part is PARTIALLY DONE
My original Calendar was on Gmail, I synced my calendar from my gmail to my iPad. But with the new iCloud, I want it to all be on the cloud. I think I can sync the iCloud's calendar into outlook, but I cannot push my calendar from Outlook into iCloud.
So ON my iPad, I did a list view, and clicked on each event (thank god I only had 6 months worth of stuff, and changed it from my gmail calendar to save onto my ipad. So then since the events are now saved onto my iPad, I pushed that into the iCloud.
Now all that is left to do is to PUSH my iCloud Calendar into my Outlook. So then when I update stuff, it will show up on my PC.
But with the iCloud Control Panel, I cannot sync my Calendar. I keep getting this error
"Setup can not continue becuase outlook isnt configured to have a defualt profile. Check your outlook settings and try again."
I have no clue what to do
Contacts - This part is PARTIALLY DONE
I am still working with this, but that error like the one above is still there as well.
But with the iCloud Control Panel, I cannot sync my Calendar. I keep getting this error
"Setup can not continue becuase outlook isnt configured to have a defualt profile. Check your outlook settings and try again."

@Naiks, having suffered through unsuccessful synching attempts for Calendar and Contacts myself, l would suggest you try the following:
UNINSTALL iCloud control panel from your PC. Seems silly, but do it.
Go into Outlook, and look at the very top menu. Click FILE, then ACCOUNT SETTINGS, then click the popup box.
You will see a list of all your email accounts. Make sure that ONE of them has a checkmark against it. If not, select the account your want as your default, and click "set as default.
Exit out of Outlook and reboot your machine.
Now reinstall iCloud, check CALENDAR and CONTACTS, and do as instructed when prompted.
Reboot for good luck and now launch OUTLOOK. All that remains is to locate your iCloud Contacts and Calendar files, and make them your default.
IMPORTANT: Don't panic if you can't find your contacts -- they're there. Click CONTACTS and you'll see you have several available contact files. Locate the one label "iCloud" in grey type. Right-click on it, select PROPERTIES, then click the Outlook Address Book tab. Check the box that says something like "Make this my default Outlook Address Book." Keep clicking "apply" and "okay" until you've exited out of the dialog box maze.
You may have to do something similar with your Calendar files. I dd not, but if you need to, do it.
Everything should now sync pretty seamlessly.
I didn't have the exact same problem as you, but my dilemma was close enough. Good luck!
Arthur P. Johnson

Looking for 'music player' widget to play songs dragged onto iWeb page

Has anyone found a 'music player' widget that can be embedded into an iWeb page, and that can then load and play the songs that have been dragged onto that page?
I have found several such widgets that can scan a URL for mp3 files, and I have successfully embedded each of those widgets into an iWeb page using the HTML Snippet, but none of them could find the mp3 files that I dragged onto the page, even though I supplied the widget with the URL for that page.

Wyodor, I just wanted to let you know that I am having a lot of fun with the WimpyPlayer, and I like the skin you sent me. Thank you so much.
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I'm considering dropping GNOME (again) and switching to lightweight WM (Openbox) and/or DE combo (Xfce/OpenBox). I really like how easy Openbox is to use and I've read several OB-related threads here, trying to determine how other folks optimize it, but I'm still left with questions that I can't seem to find answers to. I'm looking at using this setup on my Dell 6400 notebook which is currently a GNOME-centric desktop, with the exception of K3b, K9copy and a QT-frontend for VirtualBox.
The top 5 features I'm hoping to keep are as follows:
1. GUI-based SSH
Currently I use Nautilus to quickly browse remote servers, but is there a standalone GUI commonly used, or should I just get use to the shell?
2. Hibernate/Suspend support
In addition to basic powersaved functionality, GNOME offers options at shutdown or via gnome-panel. Does OB and/or OB/Xfce has something similar? When I tried Xfce in the past, I could never get the power management options to appear on the shutdown screen.
3. GUI-based volume management
I know Thunar can do this, but what do standalone Openbox fans use to quickly mount/unmount volumes?
4. Font hinting/antialiasing
Xfce can do this, but what about a standalone Openbox config?
5. Multimedia hotkeys
This should still work with Xmodmap, etc. but is there anything else I should know about?
If anyone can help shed some light on these topics, I would greatly appreciate it.
Last edited by thayer (2009-01-29 03:37:27)

thayer.w wrote:2. Hibernate/Suspend support
In addition to basic powersaved functionality, GNOME offers options at shutdown or via gnome-panel. Does OB and/or OB/Xfce has something similar? When I tried Xfce in the past, I could never get the power management options to appear on the shutdown screen.
Since Openbox is only a window manager, it does nothing in the way of hibernation or suspension. However, as long as you have ACPI working, you can still suspend/hibernate very easily. On my laptop (macbook) I simply put an option in my menu to suspend the machine by running my suspend script (which is basically "echo mem > /sys/power/state" with some commands to load/unload necessary modules and daemons)
3. GUI-based volume management
I know Thunar can do this, but what do standalone Openbox fans use to quickly mount/unmount volumes?
Thunar is my file manager of choice. It is lightweight, yet fully featured. I've used Thunar with Openbox for quite some time.
4. Font hinting/antialiasing
Xfce can do this, but what about a standalone Openbox config?
As mentioned above, Openbox is completely separate from your fontconfig.
5. Multimedia hotkeys
This should still work with Xmodmap, etc. but is there anything else I should know about?
What [vEX] said. I use this method with xmodmap to get my apple remote working with MPD
When you use Openbox, and only Openbox, you start to realize that Desktop Environments add no additional functionality, only convenience. On the other hand, they can also muck things up by being proprietary and at times overly complicated. KISS.
Last edited by cry0x (2007-07-22 05:26:02)

Help looking for a database

For years I have relied upon Appleworks for my simple database issues but have not hit a snag. The nature of the data I am now storing requires large numbers of characters to be stored in a single field. Appleworks has a character limit of approx 500. This is next to useless for me.
Does anyone know either a way around this, the text is either sections of an interview or comments (which can be in excess of 100 words), or of a simple, intuitive alternative that also has the easy switch between the card and list view.
Any help and all suggestions are very welcome.
mac mini 1.42 & imac g5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hello
Before studying an other tool, it may be time to learn that since its first delivery in year 2000, the text field's limit is not 500 characters (as written in the specs) but 1000 characters.
If this is not sufficient, it is time to look at an other application:
FileMaker 8.5
4th Dimension
openOffice 2.x
neoOffice 2.x
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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 12 juillet 2006 16:44:11)

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I'm wanting to get a new software tired of iMovie and idk what to get I would like to stay under the 1000's if possible I was also looking into final cut express but I was reading the servers are dead now? What dose that mean would it effect anything if I did buy it anyway???? Please help!!!!!

If you're planning on an editing career, I doubt that many post houses will be using FCP-X. At least not for quite some time. Youd be better off learning Avid. But if you plan to be your own boss, and you're not editing for broadcast, feature films or any type of project that would require collaboration of any kind, FCP-X is probably be just the thing you need.
As of now, FCP-X is geared toward the editor that needs no collaboration, that doesn't need to output to broadcast tape formats, that doesn't need to monitor on a professional external TV monitor, that doesn't need a full featured DVD authoring app, that outputs primarily for web viewing and limited DVD. That may change in the coming months and years as third parties develop products that add some of the functionality that was stripped away by Apple. Apple themselves may add some of those features back, but I wouldn't bet my business's future on it.
That said, I agree with Matt; don't waste time, money or effort on training to use software that has been discontinued. Try out FCP-X and see if it suits your needs. There's a great series of free tutorials here: http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/ and also a paid tutorial here: http://www.rippletraining.com/categories/final-cut-studio-courses/final-cut-pro- products/final-cut-pro-10-core-training.html
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