Really easy question about DVDs

I am about to get a new 5g iPod, and I am excited about being able to watch videos on it. But I have a quick question, is it possible to rip DVDs(like you can with CDs) from iTunes?
Thanks

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I have figured out that if I slide a DVD into the slot on the right side of my iMAC, then after a pause an application called "DVD Player" will open and the DVD will play. I have also discovered that to get the disk OUT I can find an image of it on the desktop and drag it to the trash which changes to show an upward pointing arrow. Or I can right click on the icon and select "Eject".
Where do I go to get answers to the following questions:
Are there other choices for the application that plays my DVD?
Can ITunes play this DVD?

1. Only if you've installed any(or Apple's MPEG-2 playback component for unprotected DVDs).
2. No, not even if the playback component is installed. That codec enables the QuickTime Player and similar applications to play unprotected DVDs.
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Really really easy question about sleeping MBP

I have a macbook pro and i am running a program that cannot save for whatever reason, and i want to know if i can close the screen (putting the computer to sleep, i havent changed any defaults), will my program QUIT causing me to loose all of my work, or will it remain "open" and open with my work the next time i open my screen
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Backup and save your data frequently*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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A really easy question...I think.

Hi everyone,
I have turned the internet inside-out looking for a simple
tutorial on this and so far I think they have all taken me kind of
a long way around. Basically what I want is text/photos/buttons/
inside the
box that are
"scrollable" without having to scroll left or right. My Flash
document is 800x533px. I've tried doing the whole ScrollPane thing
going through about 5 tutorials with different methods but it says
I have to do New Symbol/Movie Clip and the so-called "stage" that
you construct the movie on doesn't allow you to change dimentions
as far as I know. I can only change the dimensions of the main
Stage and the ScrollPane. I feel like this is a simple task so any
help would be greatly appreciated. I apologize if this is a stupid
question. Thanks everyone.
~Bryan

kodemonki wrote:
> Ok, I think this is a really easy question, but I've
been looking for a while
> online, in these forums, my site's code, and in my WACK
book.
>
> How do you set a request time out for a specific page so
that it can run for
> an hour or so? I'm using 4.5 so I can't use cfsetting,
but I'm pretty sure
> I've seen this before.
>
> Please help, thanks!
>
I have not been able to dig this out, but I have a vague
memory of there
being an URL parameter you could pass to a page to allow it
to run longer.

Easy Question about resizing video

I searched 'Resizing Video' and there was too many unrelated results to a really simple question.
In my old program "Premiere', to resize and move a video around was very easy. You could adjust the scale and X-Y values numerically, or you could use a Free Transform like in Photoshop. Simply dragging bounding boxes for size and aspect and also dragging the clip to decide it's location.
The only way I know how to do this in FCP is I double click a clip in the sequence, it loads into the viewer, I go to the Motion Tab and then I can adjust the Scale, which is cool. But then I'm left with the Distort section to adjust position (and aspect if need be). In the Distort section there are 8 numeric fields of info to figure out and fill out just to get one clip in a different position correctly.
I'm thinking there must be another way to adjust the location (or aspect) of a video clip without spending a bit of time on exact coordinates, I want to eye-ball where I want the clip to go and simply move it there. Is the Distort feature the only way to do this? If not, which is the fastest way to move and change the dimension of a clip.
Thanks for reading, I hope there is another way, I'm not use to these calculations and they're slowing me down.
Monty

I searched 'Resizing Video' and there was too many unrelated results to a really simple question.
That's because it's not a simple question at all and yet every one of those threads was related to the OP's question. As you discovered, there are lots of ways to interpret "resize," during capture, editing, effects, output, viewing, encoding, printing. But the solution was even simpler than you thought. All you had to do was open the manual or the online help system. Start taking the manuals to the gym with you. FCP is not Premiere. You're going to hate FCP, you're going to love FCP but it will never behave like Premiere beyond the elements of the functional paradigm. Forget Premiere.
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Easy question about Reformatting

Hello all,
I am trying to reformat my HD after I have deleted Windows XP off of a partition. The reason for this is an upgrade to Vista and a larger allotment of HD space. My question is:
I am using Backup v3.1.1. (v369) and I have FULL backup files of my Home folder, and my Music folder (as backup for my backup) for all my iTunes libraries. These are located on a portable HD. Are these the correct files to have backed up in order to have my MAC the way it was before I started the process? If so, then once the reformatting is complete, how do I get it all back onto my MAC permanently? Will all my apps and tweaks work as before?
I am sure this is a simple question, however, I have never had to do this with a MAC, and I want to make sure I have all bases covered before I begin this. Any other comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks All!

You call this an easy question ???
Just messin with ya
Your home folder is the most important folder containing your music, documents, preferences etc. but a lot is also stored in the system folder and library folder outside your home folder, if you want to be ensured of an exact copy of your current system the best way to go at this is to clone your system partition.
The app i use for this is carbonCopyCloner
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
To add to this.. i've heard there is software for the mac that allows you to make adjustments to the size of your partitions without having to format the drive, i don't know the names of these products but i do know that it's very risky to use them, if you decide to use an app like that make sure you have proper backups of everything just in case it goes wrong.
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Question about DVD quality from iDVD.....

I've just created my first DVD using iDVD (7.0.4), and I'm not happy with the quality of the photos. They look great in Aperture. They look great in iDVD when I play the project directly on my Mac. The problem is that I burned some DVD's of the project, and when I play the DVD on my Mac (or TV, for that matter) the quality of the photos aren't anywhere near what they are in Aperture or when I play the project directly on the computer. It's useable, but is it normal to have the photo quality fall off pretty noticeably when burning it to a DVD?
(FYI - I'm using the DVD burner that's built-in on my iMac, using Sony DVD+R DVD's, and I don't see any "quality" settings that I'd be able to change before burning.)
ANy help would be greatly appreciated, as - after burning about 20 DVD's - I'm unhappy enough with the quality that I don't even feel like giving them out now.)
Thanks,
Tim

Ah - That makes sense. Thanks.
As I said, I've never done anything with iDVD before. In fact, I've never done anything "digital" with photos before. I process them in Aperture, and then make prints and that's it. Which leads me to another question then.....
What I'm trying to do is get the 150 or so photos I've taken of my son's high school baseball games onto some type of media so that I can give one to each of the players. Not knowing anything about the degradation of the photo when turning them into a DVD, I put together a "project" in iDVD where I split the photos into two groups, added two songs, and made a presentation out of it. It sounds like if I want to do something like that Blue-Ray would be the only option to maintain the quality of the photos?
If that's the case, are there any other options? Can I just drag the photos onto a CD, or does a CD compress the photos as well? As I said, I've got about 150 photos that average between 9 - 13 MB's each. Will they fit onto one or two CD's? (I'm not sure how much a CD will hold.)
Any other options/ideas for getting these photos to the players?
Thanks in advance for any more help anyone could provide.....
Tim

Switcher has question about DVD Label Printing

I recently switched from Windows to Mac Mini. I really have enjoyed the Mac experience. One thing I haven't found though is a way to print DVD labels via a Mac application or via Mac Office. Is there a way or must I get a third party app?

I use Discus. It is cheap (about $40), downloadable, and support just about every label printer and paper label available.
See it here:
http://www.magicmouse.com/hdiscusdetail.html
I advise against using paper labels on DVDs. Many have done it successfully, but there are enough horror stories, including destroyed DVD players (label comes loose, gums up the inside) to concern me. I've used the EZ CD Printer (an Epson C60 conversion), and the Epson R300, as well as the CD.DVD duplicator I use now, the Primera Bravo which works perfectly. I've made about 300 DVDs with that.
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Qosmio G10-133 Question about DVD COMBO Drive replacement

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my laptop has a DVD driver labled UJ-830B but the device managaer reports that it is a UJ-830S. I have posted before saying I haven't been able to burn DVDs. It gets part way through then errors out saying unable to burn. I have used various software and disc makes but all to no avail.
I purchased an external burner which burns no problems, however it does defeat the object of having one built into the lapotop!!!
Can anyone suggest a suitable replacement drive? I have already tried an NEC 5540A drive, but my laptop didn't recognise that it was installed. I assume it is something to do with Master/Slave?? If the laptop doesn't recognise the drive I am obviously unable to flash any firmware.
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Hi
Seems you have already noticed that the drive replacement is not so easy.
The internal notebook drives dont support any jumpers like the external drives for desktop PCs and the settings are fixed and in my knowledge not changeable
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It seems this are any internal part numbers.
DVD Super Multi Drive
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A dumb question about DVD Capacity.

I want to create as high as quality DVD as possible from my iMove (5.02) project using iDVD (5.01). I've started off using DVD+R disks and I'm now considering using Dual Layer DVD's.
The actual iMovie file size of my project is 12Gig at about 60 minutes. It's the same size when I SHARE as a full quality QT file. However when I create an iDVD Project from either the QT file or directly out of iMovie, my DVD Capacity reading is approx. 2.1 of 8Gig.
Now my question is this: What exactly am I reading here? I was under the impression that the DVD Capacity indicated the size of the movie. Obviously a 12Gig movie isn't going to fit onto a DVD, so I assumed that this reading related to the compressed size, but am I wrong? I can't understand why a 12Gig movie would need to be compressed so much. If this is the compressed size, then how can I get iDVD to not compress it so much? I've tried using Best Performance as the encoded setting, but would expect something up in the 6-7Gig range.
If I use a dual layer disk, am I only going to be writing a 2Gig file to it?

Thanks.
But two questions.
My iDVD Capacity status bar reads this file as 2 of 8 Gig. Is it telling me that my imported iMovie will be compressed down to 2Gig, if so then why is it compressing the file down so much, OR if not what exactly is this information telling me? If I should expect a reasonable good compression from a 12Gig movie down to say 6 or 7Gig why isn’t it shown in the iDVD Capacity status bar?
Also, at what point does iDVD work out the compression? I don’t usually insert a blank DVD in until I go to burn the project and iDVD requests one, up until that point how does it know what size disk I’m using 4Gig Single or 8Gig Dual Layer.

Just a few questions about DVD Ripping and Final Cut 6

Ok,
Here is my first major concern. I have a wedding that I cut on the Final Cut Studio. After I burnt it to a DVD, I erased the main footage. However, the groom wanted to add something so I went into my backup files to get the information but just so happens that my backup hard drive crashed and it will not recognize on any Mac. (Tried 3 different Macs including 2 PowerMac G5’S and a Power Mac G4) Anyway all I have no is the DVD. I was wondering if anyone knew any good ripping software that I can rip this DVD back to a QuickTime. I have tried a few programs but the quality is just horrible.
My next question is does anyone know when Final Cut Pro 6 is shipping?

Did you lose your autosave vault with the crash? You could open your autosave and grab the last cut and do a media manager capture so you wouldn't have to re-edit or capture all of the media again.
Also, there are people who can get the info off the drive for a modest fee. If this was a paying gig, consider it part of the cost of having done the project. If the groom was satisfied and the project was complete, I guess you could argue that an extra fee is in order if he wants a different version after the final version was already delivered and agreed upon. Otherwise you kind of owe it to him to do whatever it takes to give him a final output.
Make a backup tape as well next time. That way you can recapture and add, then re-backup and re-compress. Lots of re-ings.

Easy question about install time

Hello,
I have been having a lot of problems with my MacBook and after posting on the forums it seems a re-install might help. This is my firt time doing a wipe/install so I backed up my files and booted from my Tiger install DVD and did a wipe/install and I am staring at in installing right now. It seems to be taking forever! It has been going for about 2 hours now and is about 1/3 of the way finished and says it has 3 hours 43 minutes to go. Is it supposed to take this long?

Hi,
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I would suggest you let the installation run its course and then see how the computer is working.
It might be that your HD needed repairing... did you check it with disk utility before starting the installation ?
One more thing... after the first boot (where you set up accounts,etc) you should boot from the install DVD check the disk with disk utility and repair if necessary.
S

A really basic question about fonts in InDesign

I'm new to the world of graphic design and teaching myself through trial and error and Lynda. One of my biggest problems in designing my project is selecting fonts. There are about four million, two hundred twenty two thousand, six hundred, and seven .2 fonts in the world, and seeing an 8 point version of "Sample" just doesn't do it for me.
I am reluctant to apply every font in turn to my text to see what it looks like. When searching the web, fonts displayed in 20 point glory, require at least a download, if not a credit card transaction as well. Am I missing some obvious panel that makes managing font selection easier. Perhaps a secret preference that could at least group fonts by family instead of alphbetically?
Please help before I go blind. My eyes are starting to cross.
Thanks! in advance for your help.

Oh Steve there's a better way to see that type live, no black highlight.
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Quick (hopefully easy) question about rotating video...

I'm going to be shooting some video soon that I will later be editing with FCP. I'm going to shoot the video on a Canon Vixia HF10 (AVCHD) camcorder.
In the situation I'll be shooting, with the mount I'll be using, it would be much easier for me to shoot this video with the camera fully upside-down.
If I shoot the video fully upside down, can I easily rotate it 180 degrees in FCP with no loss of quality?
Thanks!

An interesting thing about video that is shot upside down is the ballistics of the camera movement can be weirdly disconcerting. For instance, if it's a helmet- or wing-style mount, pans and tilts just feel odd.
As Eric suggests, flipping the image 180 degrees is easy but practice and evaluate.
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Quick Easy Question About N580GTX-M2D15D5 Bios

Hey guys!!
I just have a real quick and easy (i suppose) question!
I had bios version KH0, and MSI live update found KH1, i downloaded and flashed successfully (DOS window said please restart and press any key to exit) so i did, restarted my computer, and MSI live update utlity and gpu-z and MSI afterburner are all reporting the same bios version i had with the KH0, version 70.10.17.00.01 & date November 09, 2010
MSI live update is not picking up the update again, so my question is, how do i know if it flashed correctly since the bios date and version remained the same?
Thanks !

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I had bios version KH0, and MSI live update found KH1, i downloaded and flashed successfully (DOS window said please restart and press any key to exit) so i did, restarted my computer, and MSI live update utlity and gpu-z and MSI afterburner are all reporting the same bios version i had with the KH0, version 70.10.17.00.01 & date November 09, 2010
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version 70.10.17.00.01
that's suppose to be, this is the version of the both bioses
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& date November 09, 2010
this is GPU release date, not BIOS date
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MSI live update is not picking up the update again, so my question is, how do i know if it flashed correctly
Get this: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=147603.0;attach=7931
extract it somewhere, then run info1 , and look for the last line
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since the bios date and version remained the same?
they are not the same, your looking the wrong stuffs

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