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Malcolm, Hi; I'm one that does not print much. I have a couple of external hard drives and I copy every thing on at least two sources. Most of my digital images and digital video gets put on CD, DVdisk or internet to share.
Now that I'm getting into PSE I have been thinking about print again. When I do print I use Shutterfly or other on-line services. I have a good printer and a LCD monitor so I have been thinking about getting software to calibrate this monitor or using one of my old CRT monitors, since I have been reading about the difference in what you see on a LCD monitor and your print output. So far The prints I have made at home look good after I nudge up sliders on my printer preferences
Some of the images I have been editing are looking good and I may not be satisfied with this method or on-line services any longer. Mickey

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I got a Season Pass for "Chuck", and it says 7 of the episodes are not in a format compatible with my iPod Classic 160GB. Thoughts?

My subject line pretty much says it all. I'm trying to sync season 4, which has 24 episodes. I get this error on 7 of the episodes saying that the video format is not compatible with my iPod Classic.
I have tried restoring my iPod and starting from scratch, but I'm still getting the same error.
I can't imagine Apple is using a different format for different episodes, so there must be a work-around of some kind.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Melissa

Hello Melissa,
Definitely a little odd that some episodes will sync and others will not, especially since they are from the same season. How the videos were encoded may be slightly difference, so much that your iPod no longer friends them compatible.
I would have a look at this article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1497
Since these are videos that were purchased from the iTunes store, you won't be able to convert them in any way, so you may be out of luck.
B-rock

My thoughts, ?s, experiences with my new zvm:60 after having a 30gb for 5hrs pr

This is my first post here. I am a forum user so Ill try not to be a troll. I did get done pouring over the threads here for hrs too.
So I went shopping for my first media player a while ago. I read all the reviews I could on every player known to man (CC is a great retail web site to get reviews and the bay). Well the Zen:M seemed to take the cake as the best player for a demanding seasoned tech user. And really just plain over all.
So I bought a 30gb player from a private online seller (you can guess) and after getting it up and running found all the reviews to be true. Infact I even loved it more than I anticipated. However my experience was cut short. I had finished using the player, turned it off (it fully shut itself down), placed it in my coat pocket and draped the coat over a chair when it suddenly fell out of my coat onto a hard wood floor. Now the unit was in a thin silicon skin and could not have fallen more than 2ft (more like ft) and that was all folks. Dead as a door nail. No power up, no ?help me? when connected to the comp, no rest button, nothing. All it did when connected was flash the power/hold button charge light abnormally fast with a clicking sound? Huh? I think the battery somehow came disconnected. ?To anyone reading this, are all these fine players this sensiti've to vibration? Yeah I know its a HD player, and no one wants to see their player dropped, so is this the norm?
Which brings me to my new ZVM60. Love it. The only difference I notice, other than the size (getting to that) is it seems the touch sensor is slightly more sensiti've. Great, I like that! Now the size. It should be noted that as of now this 60gb player is WIDELY mis-documented as being the same size as the 30gb. Infact a well known web retailer I bought this from is a culprit of this also. I also bought an extended 2 yr warrantee after this past incident. However Im having a real hard time finding a skin or case for it. The leather one doesnt appeal to me sorry. I searched the threads here and am finding nothing. Anything new come around since? Id love to get a ToughSkin for it but am not holding my breath. I dont mind having a player that by all standards is a TANK. Just let me protect my tank. On that note, anyone know why the 60gb is bigger? I thought all PCMCIA HDs were the same size.
Lastly, Im using this player with a properly maintained XP computer with WMP0. I rip all my store bought CDs at 28 in WMA. This and some ripped vinyl is how the player is primarily used. Am I missing anything? Also the player has firmware ver .0.04 , is it worth updating? Im kinda leary to update having been around BIOS flashing nightmares back in the day. Will I loose all my data doing a firm update? Also, I dont know if anyone out there is doing this but I heard the newer Alpine car stereos can work with a bare bone external HD filled with audio files. I got that info from a few reliable sources. Anyone doing this and know what file format these heads are compatible with? Id rather not have to keep my Zen in the car if I dont have to risk it. Also any takes on how Im doing things here are more than welcome.
So in conclusion I love my Zen. Id simply like a good skin to protect it with?? The GF has a coughPOD video, will see what she thinks of this not so little guy. Also will keep all up to date on any findings I have. Please do the same.
Dave

I will check out the web site. On that note thanks for it. However, as stated in the thread, the 60gb, EVER SO SAD, is a bit thicker than the 30gb. Im really praying some skins come out. Ive been playing with this player all night long. ON THAT NOTE, people complaining and having issues with the bass. I know where you are coming from. However a semi solution can be had with playing with the vol limiter in combo with the bass boost func and the custom EQ. Im sure this is no news flash to most techies out there. However being an audiofool (aka audiophile) and knowing a little about the hardware involved in all this. I have a really bad feeling, and bad track record of being right on this when Id rather not be, that this is infact an OP-AMP issue and power dedication issue too the afore mentioned. Firmware or not, you play with bass boost and EQ and there is no way to get this player to dedicate enough KICK, as its been termed here, to the headphones without distortion. I think this may be WHY there hasnt been a working firmware fix to this issue. I think some may not realize, as the old analogy goes, a chain is only as stong as its weakest link, and I have a BAD feeling that the OP-AMP is that link holding this fine player back. No bad feeling to those in the design depo. I know how cost concerns go and who those who dont know JACK dictate construction. Im sure you all tried your hardest to design the best player on the market. You suceeded in all regard IMO. Creative may be making some SERIOUS mistakes by not properly supporting their prodigy birth but dont give up on designing some killer players for us who do notice and infact buy. We buyers who do infact know and buy what is really best rely on you R&D and Designers out there, who I hope somehow read these threads, or get a heads up now and then, that we praise you and thank you for doing what no others out there do, by designing a player that really does meet the expections of the small market that has a brain and appreciates what you do. A small thanx to those that really matter. Keep up the good work! You do infact matter in an age where real genius gets overlooked. Dave?

If I erased a season of a TV show from both iTunes library and iCloud, what can I do to restore it or at least have it back in my purchased list?

     Recently I bought three seasons of a TV show, but when I was going to download the second one I noticed that I could have it with 1080p, so I changed my settings so all other downloads would be in 1080p. The second and the third season where downloaded that way, but since I didn't noticed this when I was downloading the first season; it was downloaded in 720p. I thought that if I erased the first season I could download it again but in 1080p, so I deleted the whole season from my iTunes library, but also from iCloud when it asked if I wanted so.
     Until that moment I thought I was doing it the right way, but when I went to iTunes Store to download it, there was no option to do so, even though that in the season icon it said that it was purchased. After that I went to my purchased list and it wasn't there.
     Fortunetely, I always make a backup for my Mac in an external drive, so what I did was copying the file of the season that was in my backup into the "Add Automatically to iTunes" folder. The season is back in my iTunes library, but not in my purchased list.
     The problem is that I can't download it to my iPod from iCloud. I could sync my iPod from iTunes, but most of the time I don't have my Mac with me. I would like to have the season back as if it was purchased normally, and I would like to know if there's a way that I could have it in 1080p.
     If anyone could help me to do so, or tell what I did wrong; I will be very grateful.

This may help
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
As far as the TV series being in 1080p then that is upto the content provider and some older seasons are in 720p or only SD eg Stargate
It may well be that the season you want is only available in 720p

HT201322 Is it possible to buy a TV box set on iTunes but only download one season at a time

I cannot afford to use up all the space it would take to download four seasons of a tv box set. Is there a way I can purchase the box set but only store locally one season at a time?

I misunderstood you. I thought you had a link to a mini-DVI to HDMI cable. That's why I asked for the link.
You can use the adapter you linked to and get a DVI to HDMI cable locally and it will work for you.
Sorry about the confusion on my part.

It appears I have lost all previously downloaded music including songs I ripped from my own cds..can I get them back? I thought they were saved in the cloud but I cannot find them

I had previously had years worth of Christmas music in my iTunes. When not the holiday season I obviously deslect it so that it does not play. I thought it was all backed up to the cloud, but now upon trying to recover it and resync it to my phone for travelling, I cannot find it anywhere. Is my music gone for good?

Why did you think it was in icloud?
You can redownload some itunes purchases in some countries, but this does not apply to music not purchased via itunes.
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App ... - Apple
Have you failed to maintainn a backup copy of your computer?

ITunes freezes while transferring TV season from Apple TV back to computer

I bought a season of a show on the Apple TV and it downloaded the entire season fine. When I open up iTunes and it starts syncing, it indicates that the computer is transferring the shows from the Apple TV back to the computer, but then iTunes freezes in the middle. The Apple TV appears to be fine. I'm currently running Custom Sync as the option.
I'm running 2.4 ATV OS, the latest iTunes (8.2) on a Windows XP. Network is a Linksys 54G wireless router.
I've looked at some things and have tried reauthorizing, rebooting, etc. It's a pain because I have some new content that I want to get on the Apple TV, but it defaults to transferring shows back before adding new content from iTunes onto the AppleTV.
Any thoughts?

Thanks for the update, but that doesn't really help me since my computer (desktop) and my computer about about 50 feet from each other and I really have no desire to unplug either to sync. The reality is that this has been a problem with 2.4 since it was released a month and a half ago and there is no reason why Apple hasn't fixed it by now.
What this has led me to do is not download any shows to my AppleTV, I just buy them on my computer now and the downstream sync works fine.

Problems downloading The Walking Dead Season 1

I've bought the 1st season. Episodes 1,3,4 and 5 downloaded at 1Mb a second or better. But episodes 2 and 6 just wont come down. I'm lucky if I can get then at 3 or 4k a second. Rediculous speeds. I've stopped and restarted, rebooted the machine, killed the downloads and started again. but nothing will speed them up.
Any ideas?
Everything else is fine. It's just these two downloads.

Thank you. I must have misunderstood, I thought season 3 started tonight.

How to view by show and not Seasons

This is probably more an itunes questions but since apple tv users use itunes I thought I'd try here. Is there a way to organize the library so that when you are in TV shows you view just the shows. Say I have lost and theres 4 seasons of it. Can't I just view lost TV show, click it then I see my 4 seasons with the art work. Cause other wise I have all these shows but I have to scroll through so much just to get the right season. I hope this makes sense but if I have 10 shows and they all have 4 seasons I have 40 listings. Seems kinda crazy. I have tried to organize my library but can't seem to get this one figured out. Maybe there isn't a way and itunes wants it that way. Hope to hear form someone.

I should have been clear though. Its not the view in itunes that bothers me, its in apple tv.
Yes, that would have helped.
Is there a way to say make a grid view with apple tv?
No, not a "Grid" view, but you can achieve the same "List" results on an TV2 device by including/excluding the "Season" entry.
So the only thing I can do is change the season. However, won't that make a mess cause if I have say 4 seasons. I would then have 4 episode 1's etc.
No, not if you are really entering the "Episode Number" correctly. For instance, I am currently working on season 2 of Bones. Since there were 22 show episodes in season 1, they were numbered 1 thru 22. Season 2 contains 21 show episodes which are numbered 23 thru 43. (If you need a list of episode numbers for a particular series, you can visit a site like http://www.tv.com and search for the TV series by name and, once you find it, jump the the "Episode Guide" for that series.
In any case, if you remove the season number from all of your "Lost" episode entries, then all of the shows will be displayed in a single continuous list which you can access via the single "Lost" TV Show Name entry. You can remove all of the season numbers in a single action by selecting all of the Lost episodes and entering a "nul" Season entry. If your Episodes Numbers are correct, then the Episode titles will be listed in the order in which they were aired on TV.
To me it just seems kinda crazy that using apple tv you would have to view multiple seasons of multiple shows instead of just the show name, then choose your season, then episode.
As previously noted, these devices only allow two organizational levels and your statement implies you want three separate tiers--Show Name, Season Number (by Show), and Episode Name (by Season). If you look at the display of your current TV Show list on an TV1 device, you would see only a single entry for each TV Show and when you select the TV Show Name, you would see a list of episodes divided by "Season Number" headers. In other words, removing the "Season Number" entry for an TV2 device will allow it to display in the same manner as the TV1 device but without the "Season Number" headers in the "Episode" list.
I dunno, maybe i mis understood or am missing something.
Basically, you have the option of displaying all episodes under a single TV Show Name or single Season Episodes under a TV Show + Season Name. How you choose to view them is up to you.

Season Out of Order

I am having a weird issue. The seasons of one show in my iTunes appear out of order. It only happens to one show, all the other display fine. I have been through the tags and everything is tagged correctly (right title, year, season, episode, etc). I've checked the sorting and it should be sorting them chronologically. In list view everything displays correctly, but in any other view it displays the seasons: 1, 4, 2, 3. Any thoughts?
Here are some screenshots to show you what is happening:

Nevermind. I just deleted the entire show and re-added the seasons one at a time in order and now it displays correctly. I don't know why it didn't work the first time and I don't know why it works now, but I'm happy.

Seasoned Photoshop CS5 user; New to Premier Elements 9

I am posting for the first time after recently installng Premier Elements 9 I am a seasoned Photoshop CS5 user and I thought it was complicated but working with video is a whole different can of worms. Editing, compressing, this format, that format. It really makes photo editng look pretty simple about now. O.K. I do have a question, I have had a very shaky start with the whole video thing so far. Extending from getting videos uploaded successfully onto Vimeo to understanding how Premier Elements 9 works. I did download a video learning session from Lynda.Com on using Premier Elements and I guess it is o.k. Are there other good tutorials that I can refer to? I don't want something that simply shows me how to make something look like a cartoon for example. I want to learn this program if it doesn't kill me for first.
As I am watching the material from Lynda.com, I do have my copy of Premier Elements 9 open and try to follow along. Other suggestions are welcome and I am hopeful that this forum is the place to come as well.
Thanks,
Denny

Steve Grisettis' http://muvipix.com website has free tutorials. You can also take a subscription and get access to many more.
http://muvipix.com/products.php?subcat_id=41
http://muvipix.com/products.php?subcat_id=42
http://muvipix.com/products.php?subcat_id=44
Also Adobe TV has tutorials:
http://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to/elements-tutorials/
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Neale
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Season Pass Troubles

I have the season pass for South Park season eleven and have had no trouble with it for 2 weeks however when I attempted to download this weeks episode it gave me an error. I thought nothing of it clicked ok on the message box and tried to download again, except now iTunes seems to be reading that I was able to download the episode because it has nothing in my queue. Has anyone else had this problem? If so how did you go about fixing it? Kicking myself now for not remembering the error message. I don't think it is a problem on my end because I have downloaded all the previous episodes on the same computer over the same connection as I attempted to with this one.
Thanks,
Andrew

If you can't restart the download by using the Store->Check for Purchases option, your best bet is to search your hard drive. There's a chance it downloaded but wasn't added to your library properly.
If that doesn't work, you should probably contact customer support.

I bought the second season of American Guns and it downloaded some episodes and not others this happened to the last season of American Chopper also for me.

I purchased the second season of American Guns and the latest American Chopper and some episodes downloaded and some didn't and I go to purchase it again and it tells me already purchased but when I hit download it tells me to pay again then when I do it says already purchased???

For those interested, the solution (at least in my case) is pretty simple:
--Contact Apple Support and explain.
--Have first-level support misinterpret your request.
--Re-explain and ask for resolution.
--Have the purchased items added to your download queue and then hit Check For Purchases.
--Sit back and enjoy.
Based on the WWDC announcements on 08-Jun, going forward, the solution will apparently be:
--Download it from iCloud.
Roaminggnome, you are simply wrong. Demonstrably, purchases on iTunes are not one and only copy--even more so now with the entire concept of iCloud, but even beforehand you could download apps many times if you had bought them and removed them from your iOS device. You'd think with all those discussion points, you'd troll less and actually give thought to responses more, but sometimes I say crazy things.

I purchased a season of a TV show yesterday afternoon. I've tried to watch it several times, but even this morning it still tells me it will be over 1 hour until it''s ready to be viewed. Can anyone help?

I bought a season of a TV show yesterday afternoon. When I tried to play an episode, it told me it would take 1 hour 45 minutes to download. Of course each episode is only 50 mins or so. I tried later in the evening, same message.
This morning I got the same message, only one hour and 20 minutes. Finallly, the episode started to play so I thought all was well. I had to pause the episode 35 minutes in and when I tried to resume, I got the same old message. Although at first it said ready to play in 15 min, then that time frame started getting greater and greater so that now ii's up to 32 minutes.
Can anyone help?

Also, I have read I should take the battery out... but I'd have to unscrew the bottom to get at it... which i don't know if I trust myself doing.
And bearing in mind I've turned it on a few times to see if it is working (BAD I KNOW) is it still worth leaving it to dry for a few more days before taking it to Apple store of will I have already completely ruined its chances of surviving?

Purchased entire season but it was placed in my queue scrambled

I purchased an entire season of LOST. When I went to the download queue, the episodes where totally out of sequential order. I need to know if there is a way to adjust the download order in the iTunes application. I have a total monthly data tranfer limit of 20 GB with my ISP so I cannot just download it unattended. I am working in India this year and this is a typical plan here unlike in the US where I had an unlimited data limit. I just thought that I would download them off the queue everyfew nights as needed. I would have to pay a considerable premium to allow this download to come in all at one time. I contacted customer service and they basically told me too bad and that they would remove the items at my loss of payment and emailed me a link to their purchase policy/legal documents which I really did not appreciate because I never expected to recieve the season in a scrambled fashion. The season is being treated like an "album" which would really not matter how it came in because an "audio album" is so much smaller in size. But a TV show does matter. Also, there really isn't any label or indication of which is the episode order unless you check the itunes where they list it in sequence. Exactly what I would expect to have been given.

Thank You for your response. That is a very sensible idea. Ultimately, customer service did refund me after some prodding through additional communications. They implied that they could not reorder the download queue for me either. I don't really understand what would be so difficult. I would guess that there is some sort of automated system that queues them in order of availability (who knows) perhaps the manpower involved in reordering on a regular basis would be too much. Anyhow, the issue is resolved but it would be a nice feature to at least have a skip function as you download so that you can get to something on the queue and save the rest for later in such large queues. I will just have to purchase them one at a time because it will be difficult for me to easily have access to another ISP for the number of hours that would be required to download a large amount of data.
I am glad that apple has eventually given me the customer service that I have become accustomed to.

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