Odd question about sizing...

I work for an LED message center manufacturer and we have run into a problem. We are using a new product to play DVD quality video on but we're trying to do this without connecting a computer to it, opting instead for a DVD player with HDMI output. Problem is the sign is 196x196 so when playing a DVD we only get a small piece of the picture. Is there a way with Adobe Premiere to create a 640x480 black background with a 196x196(or any size for that matter) area to play the movie in? If not would anyone know of a program that could do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm having alot of trouble finding any information like this.

Click on the clip in the timeline and reduce the "scale" in the "Effect Controls" panel. As long as there is nothing on a track below the clip you will automatically get a black border.
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Eddie
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Odd question about transferring.

Ok, about 2 months ago I had no problems moving my iTunes library from my old computer to my new one. So with that bravery I just tried moving iTunes and my library from where it had been to a new bigger drive, and I ended up losing huge chunks of my library. Now, my question is, I still have what I had previously sync'd onto my Pod, is there any way to transfer what is in my iPod "into" iTunes?? Otherwise, I'm going to end up losing a whole day re-importing my CD's back into my library, not to mention lose what I had purchased from my iPod. I had just purchased 2 new TV episodes but in order to get them onto my Pod, I have to sync, and if I do that I'll lose what I have there. Help!!!

*is there any way to transfer what is in my iPod "into" iTunes??*
The transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod to a computer
The transfer of content from other sources such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. You'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos, podcasts and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, this is just a small selection of what's available, they are generally quite straightforward. You can read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
TuneJack Windows Only
iPod2PC Windows Only
iGadget Windows Only
iDump Windows Only
SharePod Windows Only
iPodRip Mac & Windows
YamiPod Mac and Windows
Music Rescue Mac & Windows
iPodCopy Mac and Windows
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iPod Access Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)
There is also a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows or a Mac. The procedure is a bit involved and won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's available at this link: Two-way Street: Moving Music Off the iPod
One last thing if your iPod is set to update automatically you need to take care connecting to an iTunes with a different content. You can use a keyboard command to prevent your iPod auto-syncing with iTunes. While connecting the iPod to the computer on Windows with iTunes 7.3 or later installed hold down the Shift + Ctrl keys together. This will stop the iPod from auto-syncing with iTunes and the iPod will appear in the source list. Wait until you are sure the iPod has mounted, and that it will not auto sync and then you can let the keys go. This may take between 20 to 30 seconds depending on your computer: iTunes 7.3 Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
When your iPod appears in the iTunes source list change the update setting to manual, that way you can continue to use your iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default: Managing content manually on iPod
Whichever retrieval method you choose, keep your iPod in manual mode until you have reloaded your iTunes and you are happy with your playlists etc then it will be safe to return it auto-sync. I would also advise that you get yourself an external hard drive and back your stuff up, relying on an iPod as your sole backup is not a good idea and external drives are comparatively inexpensive these days, you can get loads of storage for a reasonable outlay.

Odd question about engraving a shuffle

I received a Shuffle as a gift and noticed he had a message engraved on the clip. This was over two years ago. I'd like to know if he had gotten the message from the engraving gallery or if he made it up himself. The quote is not in the gallery, but since I received the shuffle long ago, it's possible Apple replaced it with something else. I can't find a way to contact Apple about this (by email, I'd rather not call about this); does anyone know how I can email them about this, so I can ask them if the message was ever in the gallery? It's a strange question, but I'm asking because it would make me feel even more special if the guy took the time to write something himself. Of course the thought, gift and engraving together are already signs of affection...poetry would make it even sweeter. Thanks.

If you got it more than 2 years ago it is not a 3rd Generation Shuffle and you are posting in the wrong place.
I doubt they have removed anything from the engraving gallery, which if I recall is a fairly recent option, although I can't be sure when it was put into place since I've never had one engraved. There is no place to email them and it would probably be hard to find anyone who would remember this anyway. So since it is not in the gallery take it on faith it was put there by the giver.
Of course they could have copied it from somewhere else. Have you tried a Google search?

A very odd question about accessing cube via HTTP PUMP

hi there:
Everything was fine a couple of days ago when I used excel to connect to cube. Today, when I use excel -> from Other sources, I can select the AS database but can not see the cube at all... The odd thing is that if I choose to use Existing Connections
which contains the connection to the CUBE before, after put my user id and password, I am able to connect and navigate cube data.
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How have you setup permissions for the HTPP access. If e.g. IIS and SSAS running on different machines, the permissions settings are a little bit difficult. So may a different user is used and that one may don't have permissions to access the cube.
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Odd question about potential funny business on black berry.

Im not really sure the model but my dad thinks it is 8530. He isn't too savy on technology and after spending 45 minutes on the main site looking at features, im still uncertain. My dad believes his gf is sending pictures or messages to randoms. One of the things he thinks she does is that she will go to send a message, addressed to my father himself, but also tag along another message to a different address with differing content. They argue almost everyday and he says he finds more and more shady business and im simply growing sick of it and its causing alot of stress on us all. To top it off she passwords tons of stuff in the phone and I dont have access to it. I was wondering if what I aforementioned is A: Possible, and B: if there are other things that she could be doing. She has... history.... anyways im wondering why in the hell she would go through all the effort, why not just delete the messages...
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Your situation is a bit confusing. If she's about to send a message to your dad, she can also forward it to other people. This bit about "tagging along another message to a different address with differing content" is not possible. One message to one person or one message to multiple people, but sending one message to different people at once with another message which has differing content to many people is not possible.
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Hi.
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I then cut it into all its tracks and named it all. . .
When it came to burning it said that there wasnt enough space on the CD. It then said (633MB Needed). . .
Does this mean it needs 633MB more or it needs 633MB in total. . .
I thought CDs were 700MB?
Anyone that can shed any light on this would be really helping me out a lot!!!
Cheers, B

benjamingordon wrote:
Hi.
Ive posted this in the waveburner forum and had no reponse so i thought maybe someone in here would be able to help.
My first problem was that Waveburner didnt accept files that were more than 2GB so i had to compress my file down using quicktime and get it into waveburner. I originally had a 2hr long DJ mix, which i cut down to about 65 mins. . .
I then cut it into all its tracks and named it all. . .
When it came to burning it said that there wasnt enough space on the CD. It then said (633MB Needed). . .
Does this mean it needs 633MB more or it needs 633MB in total. . .
I thought CDs were 700MB?
Anyone that can shed any light on this would be really helping me out a lot!!!
Cheers, B
Hi,
You compressed in Quicktime? What exactly did you do? take a large file and squish it into a smaller-size type of file? Like an mp3?
A 2 hour DJ mix is a 2 hour DJ mix. what did Quicktime get rid of to make it 63 minutes? That's weird... it does not make any sense to me. you just let Quicktime edit out parts of your mix so it ended up at 63 minutes? Unattended?
But then you state you "cut it into all its tracks and named it all"... so you edited it into individual songs, which TOTAL how much time? 2 hours, or 63 minutes?
From the "error" message you got, i think you still have 2 hours of material, in which case I recommend you only do ONE CUT, and have less than 80 minutes of the first part one CD 1, and the rest on CD 2.
It will all together NEVER FIT ON ONE CD. EVER.
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Odd Question about file extensions

Hello, I have a strange question that I cannot seem to fix on my own.
The other week I was messing around in my Utilities folder and I was clicking on some of the applications contained in that folder.
When I closed out some of the programs that I had opened I noticed that all the files on my computer now have a suffix at the end of their names. Everything.
So before an application would say, TechTool Pro 4 it now says TechTool Pro 4.app
TextEdit.app, etc etc
I know this is a minor thing but I would like to find a way to remove this suffix that I inadvertently applied to everything on my laptop.
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See if this helps. Go to Finder choose Preferences then click Advanced. See if the *Show all file extensions* box is checked. If it is uncheck it.

Odd question about calendar accounts

I have a user who has several users that want to use a calendar account for scheduling. However, they do not want to use their own calendar accounts and then open the scheduling account - the claim is that there are too many clicks.
So my main user asked the following question:
Is there a way to designate two passwords for a calendar account, with each password allowing different privileges when signed in?
I don't think this is possible, but I wanted to confirm this.
Thank you!

Michael,
I think that it is not possible. In the OID a user has only one password field. There is no standard way to achieve what your uer wants. So it has to be programmed, but I don't know how
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Odd question about a replacement keyboard for HP pavilion G71326DX

I have a G7 1326DX that needs a replacement keyboard. However A frind of mine recently purchased a G72233cl and I noticed that the keyboards were basically the same, however his had a design that I like much better (Key types). My question is, Can I purchase a Replacement keyboard for the G72233cl and install that keyboard into my G71326DX. I have looked into the connection interface, as well as lined up the notches around the edges of the keyboard with pictures of the replacement keyboards, However I want to make sure it will work correctly before I make my Purchase. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Marvin Parnell

Hello MPnarnell,
The keyboard on your G7-1326dx needs to be replaced, but you want to use a keyboard for a G7-2233cl, is that correct? I will try to help you .
Comparing the keyboard section of the manuals the part number for the keyboard you want to you use doesn’t show in the G7-1326dx list of compatible keyboards. The reason being probably is because it has never been fully tested.
Now both computers are G7’s but they are 2 totally different series of G7’s so the motherboards are probably different as well. This is one of those issues where you would have to test it out and see, I don’t believe it will work but I could be wrong. Here is the part number for the keyboard that came on the G7-2233cl. (699146-001)
If you decided to go ahead and try to change it be sure to check for a BIOS update before doing so.
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Odd question about albums...

Hi,
Im having a problem with iTunes, and how it sorts album.
So, here's an example- say I have an album with three discs.
I import the three discs seperatly into itunes, and it lists it as three different albums- Lather [disc 1], etc.
I want to have them listed as one album rather than three, so I change the song's tags so they all say just Lather. It still lists them as three albums.
Bit confused as to what I'm supposed to to.
Please help, as it affects some albums but not others. This technique worked with the Beatles White album, but not Zappa's lather, for some weird reason.

One thing that might help.
Take a look at the article suggested by Zevoneer.
When looking at the info for the song, take a look at the album.
You might see "Album Name disc 1", Album Name disc 2...
Change them to just "Album Name"
Also, take of the artist if files are showing up as different artist.
Hope this helps.

Odd question about new keyboard

Just purchased a new logic thin keyboard. I have had these color coded boards in the past. Never had a problem customizing them. For some reason on this one, the top row will not perform the FCP shortcuts, overwrite, etc. It is supposed to default to those, but it does not. I have tried to re-assign those functions, but still for some reason I am getting the standard mac commands. The rest of the keyboard seems to be OK. I am lost. Any input? Pardon the pun.
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Patience? That only took you 4 minutes. You must generally be a pretty impatient guy!
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Odd Question about software instruments

Hello, I'm still using GB 2004 (Yes, way back before the flood ;))
I have an Alesis Q49 USB/MIDI Kybrd going to Garageband and does anyone know how to possibly control the parameters of the software instruments? (besides the mouse obiviously)
Example: Double click Classic rock organ - Click on "edit the generator preset"
(pencil icon) - Click on TREMOLO.
I would like to be able to click on the tremolo button remotely with a MIDI Command or something I am not sure what type of commands are needed to turn a 3 mouse click event in a simple on/off command.
Like playing live !!
Sorry, I know I am asking for the sky ! Any guidance is much appreciated.

it sounds like you are lacking those instruments:
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Odd question about BAPI to return doc number in BKPF-AWKEY ...

One of my colleagues here needs to retrieve doc number from within AWKEY in BKPF.
He knows he can do it with a simple select followed by a substring operation, but someone on the functional side is saying that it would be better if he could find an SAP-delivered FM or BAPI that returns the doc number within the AWKEY.
Any one know whether there is an FM or a BAPI that performs this specific retrieval of doc number from within AWKEY?
I don't see why there should be one, but maybe there is ....

aRs -
This is funny.
The developer got back to me this morning - he does want to pass the awkey and get the docno.
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Thanks again.
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Just installed iOS6, questions about "iMessage" and other things...

I've been a satisfied iOS4 user since I bought my iPhone4, but I was forced to install iOS6 tonight in order to download a "free" app. I found a few new icons on the screen along with about 200 percent more "Settings" I'd like to ask some questions about. I'm sure a few of these could be answered by doing a frantic and thorough search through weeks of posts but I'm a little short on time right now.
First, what exactly is iMessage? Looking at the page for it, I can't see any difference between it and regular text messages. The info page says its to avoid charges, but between my data plan and not being charged for text I don't see where theres any other benefit. The one person I text with the most recently asked me why I had not installed iMessage yet, and didn't have an answer when I asked him why I should. I guess he just wanted to see text replies in blue instead of green.
In a related bit, flipping through Settings>Messages>Send & Receive I find a "2 addresses" section, with my phone number in there as well as my email under "You can be reached by iMessage at:" and "Start new conversations from:". What good does it do iMessages to have my email address? Does the Mail app handle text as well as email addresses? That seems to be the only explanation, and also very odd to think I'd be trying to text through my Mail app.
Second, looking through the Settings>Mail I see now that I have an icloud email address as well as the mac.com address I've been desperately hanging on to for the past 10 years, and the me.com address they've been trying to force me into since those came out. (I was happy to see I could delete the me.com address from the phone. I wish I could delete it from the universe.)
I wasn't even aware there was a such thing as icloud.com addresses. When did this happen? What is it used for?
Third, under that icloud Setting I see a long list of apps with buttons labeled "Off" under it. What are those for? Under the Mac.com settings I see switches for "Mail" and "Notes", with Mail on and Notes off. The Notes app (which I haven't used since my old iPhone 3) still opens, regardless of this setting.
Fourth, I now have an item called "Facetime" under my Settings. It is off, but underneath it says "Your phone number and/or email address will be shared with people you call". I understand caller ID normally sends caller number info to the receiver, but why would someone need my email address if I call them?
Fifth, I now have a "Music" setting, at the bottom of which I see a "Home Sharing" item, which when clicked brings up my AppleID and asks me if I want to Sign Out or Cancel. What is Home Sharing? Its also at the bottom of the "Video" settings.
Sixth, now I have Twitter and Facebook settings? For what? I don't have accounts with either of those companies. So why have settings, especially since it asks me to create accounts and download apps for those companies right in the Settings?
Seventh, there is a camera icon on the unlock screen. Touching it causes the screen to bounce up about a quarter inch, almost but not quite revealing something behind it. I should probably just quit asking about this stuff already, but I'll take the bait - what is this now?
Finally, what is the Notification Center used for?
If I got a text under iOS4, it would put an alert on the Unlock screen. Scrolling through this huge list of things under the Notification settings I'm really blown away by all the apps set up to yell at me. I can see having an alert for a text message but Game Center? What the heck is that, and why is it set up to hit me with a "Badge App Icon" (whatever that is) when I get alerts from "Everyone". Similarly, the phone is set to alert me to something called a "Photostream Alert"? What is this? Why is there a Phone section for the Notification Center? So they can put a Notice on my screen to tell me the phone is ringing? Holy cow! The phone is set to send me alerts from the "Weather Widget". So if I miss the fact its raining there will be a message on my screen to let me know? Whats next - a buzzer to tell me I'm listening to music?
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Although I have only about 50 users, at least 15 of them have in excess of 100,000 messages in their accounts and the POA (version 7.0.2) is regularly slowing to a crawl. (I just know that plans for revolution are fomenting!) I have embarked on a campaign to reduce these accounts by archiving everything off to get mail accounts down to 3000 or fewer pieces. I have achieved user buy-in, but have worked on only a few users so far.
In another closely related thread, it was suggested to me that the PO speed issues relate to broken indexes. And I suspect that given so many messages, the indexes were never getting fully rebuilt with the default QF POA settings. I am trying to fix that situation in addition to reducing mail account sizes. So, I have set up a second POA on another server and dedicated it to the indexing task. The /qfinterval is set for 1 hour, other /qf switches at default. The POA-QF does no mail delivery, but it does do nightly user upkeep.
The POA-QF seems to be steadily working away and making progress at reducing the number of unindexed messages. However, I have questions about what I am seeing and what more I can do:
1. Is the progress I am seeing real progress? For example I have a user with over 100,000 messages to be indexed and every time I check the logs, the count drops by about 500 messages per hourly QF cycle. I assume that if I just let it keep running, it will eventually get caught up and fixed. Not only with this user, but with all the others as well. Will my patience (and theirs) be rewarded? Are there any gotchas I need to prepare for?
2. One user has recently had virtually all of her messages successfully moved to archive. I can see them in the Archive, and do not see them in the online account. However, now over a week later, QF still shows >130,000 items still left to index for that user. The POA-QF is making slow, steady progress reducing that number, but why is this user's QF count still so high? Does it just need more time, or is there something amiss for this user?
3. I may want to rebuild indexes for single users from scratch. I have seen the TID 3105742 which tells how to do this: Essentially you turn off mail delivery functions, and make some other switch changes to dedicate the POA to indexing for just a single user, and then you let the POA rebuild the indexes. The implication of that scenario is that the POA is now enjoying exclusive access to the user's databases.
If I want to use my secondary POA-QF to rebuild a user's index from scratch, does the main POA have to be offline and the user out of GWise? That is, Does the QF process require exclusive access in order to rebuild indexes from scratch?
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions.
Peter Smick

pgsmick wrote:
> 1. Is the progress I am seeing real progress? For example I have a user with
> over 100,000 messages to be indexed and every time I check the logs, the count
> drops by about 500 messages per hourly QF cycle. I assume that if I just let
> it keep running, it will eventually get caught up and fixed. Not only with
> this user, but with all the others as well. Will my patience (and theirs) be
> rewarded? Are there any gotchas I need to prepare for?
Set this switch for this indexing POA - /qflevel=999 - this will index
everything in one run. It will take a long time, but with no qflevel switch you
are indeed only indexing 500 messages at a time, and if the user has that much
mail, it might never really catch up.
>
> 2. One user has recently had virtually all of her messages successfully moved
> to archive. I can see them in the Archive, and do not see them in the online
> account. However, now over a week later, QF still shows >130,000 items still
> left to index for that user. The POA-QF is making slow, steady progress
> reducing that number, but why is this user's QF count still so high? Does it
> just need more time, or is there something amiss for this user?
>
This is odd, because really the index count should drop to nothing, but with the
above switch this might get resolved as well.
> 3. I may want to rebuild indexes for single users from scratch. I have seen
> the TID 3105742 which tells how to do this: Essentially you turn off mail
> delivery functions, and make some other switch changes to dedicate the POA to
> indexing for just a single user, and then you let the POA rebuild the indexes.
> The implication of that scenario is that the POA is now enjoying exclusive
> access to the user's databases.
Not really - the POA is not enjoying exclusive access to the user's database,
the indexer is just avoiding an attempt to index anything else.
> If I want to use my secondary POA-QF to rebuild a user's index from scratch,
> does the main POA have to be offline and the user out of GWise? That is, Does
> the QF process require exclusive access in order to rebuild indexes from
> scratch?
No - QF never requires exclusive access. That said, you may find that an
extremely vigorous QF can cause slowdowns for the user.
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