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I tried a keynote export, it has two dorms of export, straight movie and one where you advance it using the space bar, no idea how this imports into DVDSP/FCP. Remember there is also Final Cut Express, which is much cheaper and you can always try things out with the free iMovie and iDVD.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I looked at FCE - I get the impression that it's more iMovie Plus than Final Cut Pro Lite. Anyway, work are paying, so I may as well go for the Pro version.

I guess what I'll do with Keynote is to import the client's .ppt, tidy it up (Keynote's transitions look way nicer than PowerPoint's) and then export as a straight movie. I can then edit in video segments with FCP and then put in chapter markers/scripts with DVDSP. In film DVD bonus features, you sometimes get galleries of images where you have to press a button to advance to the next image - I'm guessing that I can set up something similar in DVDSP to mimic the slideshow of PowerPoint.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm sure i have a 20gig hard-drive on my iBook. and i have 4gig worth of mp3s stored in iTunes. accounting for OS and other programs i say i'm losing abt 3gigs to them. so tht's a cumulative 7gigs so by all accounts i shd have 13gig free but i have 9.86 - where could 4gig have gone?

― athos magnani (Cozen), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Alfie, you would do well to get yourself CLeaner as well if the office are paying-I used to do something very similar to the process that you are describing, and it's a great tool.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

well, a "20 gig" hd would probably actually be 19gig (as my 80's show up as 76), so there's one accounted for. i think it has to do with that a gigabyte is not actually 1 billion bytes, or something. and that disk manufacturers report it differently than your computer sees it (or something). hell i don't know, but it's true!!

ok i think i figured it out: an 80g disk is actually 80 billion bytes. but a gigabyte is actually 1,048,576 bytes. so, 80,000,000,000 / 1,048,576 = 76.293 GB as seen by the computer. ITS A FUCKING SCAM!!

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

er, megabyte is 1,048,576 rather. fuck now i'm confused again. so it has 76,293 megabytes ouch brain hurting

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm still missing some tho, right?

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, it seems like you could look through your system folder by folder and figure out what's happening. If you really felt compelled to.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't want to be losing 4gig really but I'm not sure I really want to put the work in. Should I wait till it gets critical or buy some more HD space anyway because 20gig is really not enough?

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, if you question is, "do I really have a 20g drive", then click on the harddrive, get info, and add up how much space is used and how much is free. If you're saying "what's this crap that taking up so much harddrive space", well, that's another story.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i want the other story.

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh also I put 4Gig movie of Ned in the shower on your computer, I hope you don't mind.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

4gigs worth of penis.

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

< /wrong thread>?
< /drunk>?
< /oops>?

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, < /sorry>.

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

thk god ned doesn't have a boring computer.

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i think your (gu)es(s)timation of what you're using just doesn't square with what you're actually using

for one thing, your orig math is goofy. you are "missing" 3.14, not 4. we already turned that down by one, so now it's 2.14. consider that your estimations of 3 and 4 gig respectively might be both low. now we could be down to 1 gig.

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ok. i got the comp. w. a 20GB HD. bt all the stuff orig on it took away approx. 3GB (down to 17.) checking iTunes i have 4GB of music (down to 13.) checking 'available space' i have only 9.86GB. I'm missing yeah 3.14GB...

um ok i see yeh ron yr right i thk. hm. time fr new HD space.

― athos magnani (Cozen), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG I FIGURED IT YOUR PR0N COLLECTION IS LIKE 5G SO YOU HAVE ACTUALLY 4 FREE BONUS GIGS OMG WTF LOL

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm missing yeah 3.14GB

Check again. I bet the amount your computer's missing, is in fact, 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724 8912279381830119491298336733624406566430GB.

i.e. it's gone maths mad.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 15 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Why that last 0, Eyeball?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 15 November 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

OS X gobbles about half a gig for swapfile space, cd cache space etc., more if you have more RAM than that. If you have OS 9 then some of your space will be used by virtual memory. How are you counting your disc space by the way?

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 15 November 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh also I put 4Gig movie of Ned in the shower on your computer, I hope you don't mind.

Erm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

my volume control somehow put the balance both on "wave" and "cd player" all the way to the right, so i put it back on the center but the thing is, everytime another mp3 or track starts it goes back to the left and i have to fix it again. i cant find any save settings on something on the volume control and this is really buggin me so can anyone tell me how to fix the balance for good?

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 15 November 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Vic! You're back!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

dood i never was away, i just became a lurker

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

When I'm on the internet via DSL, I sometimes get "kicked off" ie. my DSL connection is still there but I can't get through to any sites. When I restart the pc there's no problem, so it must be something to do with the system (I unfortunately use WIndows ME). Has anyone else had this problem, and is it worth installing Windows XP? Can I do this without wiping out all my files and starting again? Help!!

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I had that problem for a bit but that was the driver for the network card on my PC; ultimately it meant swapping out for a new card, but since that was a gigabit card (and a flaky one at that) it's quite likely not the same problem you're having. But you may want to find out what network card you have and see if there's a driver update for it anyhow. You can find that out in the Control Panel, under "System". (If that brings up the window that lists the hardware itself, select "Network adapters" but if not, you may have to click the "hardware" tab and then "device manager". I can't remember which setup ME has).

Upgrading to XP may not solve the problem, but you can usually upgrade to XP without wiping your drive or your files. If you decide to do it, though, it's always prudent to back up anything you don't want to lose, especially items in the "My Documents" folder or on your desktop.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

how do i listen to a .pls file? from www.subcity.org

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Thursday, 27 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

on a windows machine

w. media player but seemingly no realplayer.

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Thursday, 27 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently WinAmp will play PLS files. http://www.winamp.com

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ok this is probably the dumbest question on this thread yet, but the internet has me scratching my head. with my nascent ability to actually download mp3s and even burn them (?!?!?!), i find myself in a dilemma.
i am using explorer 5.2 on mac os 10.3.1, and i dont get what happens when i click on a link for an mp3, and it sort of loads itself in the browser window, then plays in some weird little strip that oesnt seem to be related to any application except explorer. ok so when this happens it sucks. i dont seem to have properly downloaded and cant save it properly to my harddrive. so thats scenario a).
the reason i dont understand it is because most of the time (situation b), when i click on a link that ends .mp3, then it goes to the download manager and seems to properly download it and a can save it and listen to it on itunes. (this happened when i tryied to listen to an mp3 from 1471, and that mix that someone put on ilm)..so whats happening here?
why does situation a) arise, and how do i make sure situation b) prevails?

why am i so dense?

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The strip is a Quicktime plugin. Make certain that iTunes are set as the default Internet music application. I think that setting is in the iTunes preferences, IIRC.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 8 December 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Or, to avoid situation a, hold down CTRL as you click on the link and choose to download link to disk (or just right click if you have a two-button mouse)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

N., seems kinda unnecessary if he can set the computer to set everything to be diverted to iTunes automatically.

But yes, that would work. It was my initial suggestion, but I decided that changing preferences would (ideally) be the better route to go.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 8 December 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

check all the mime types for mpeg files and make sure they are set to save as the default action

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I just bought a used PC from a friend. When I'm surfing the web, sometimes something will happen where, when I click a link or try to go to a new URL, IE will immediately go to the "This Page Cannot Be Displayed" page. It just goes there immediately, not after timing out or anything. This is true for all IE windows open at the time. I wait a few minutes, then things go back to normal. But even as I can't access any web pages, other applications are able to send/receive data through my internet connection, like normal.

My computer is an AMD running Windows 98, and I have cable internet through Comcast. Plenty of memory and processor speed. Any ideas? This scares me, as my home computer connection is crucial to my work/livelihood. It's been happening frequently (and I just bought this computer). Thanks for any help/ideas.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll bump this once because it keeps happening and it really sucks! btw, I just downloaded the latest version of IE (6.0), if that might have something to do with it.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes it does that when the computer can't find an Internet connection; I think that page also features a "detect proxy settings" link or something like that, so you may want to click on that to see if it can find your connection. It's kinda hard to say what it may be...could be a fubar'd network card, could be spotty service from your provider, or it could even be a virus. If you're getting data via your other apps though, it's more likely that you need to set your proxy or decontaminate the system.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I get this sometimes but 'Refresh' always cures it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, just pulled the Ethernet cable out of my other machine; it's "Detect Network Settings" and it's halfway down the page.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I just bought a new computer off a friend. AMD thunderbird processor 1.4 Ghz, 256 MB PC2700 RAM. My problem is, it feels like I have about 64 MB RAM. I keep a bunch of windows open and a few apps running, and my old computer with 128MB would tolerate my habits just fine. This 256MB machine can't seem to handle it. Is there such thing as bad memory, or could there be something else tying up all my resources that I'm not aware of? Thanks for any help.

― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, thanks Sean and N. for the help above -- I never saw it. That problem somehow magically resolved itself, though.

― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohhhh there's bad memory of it all right, and a lot of it. One question is whether or not you've switched operating systems: if you're with WinXP now, it takes up a lot more resources than, say, Win98. You can find out whether your resources are being used up (and by what) by right-clicking on the taskbar and selecting "Task Manager", then choosing the performance tab. It'll let you know how much memory your system is currently using, and whether it's actually just your CPU cycles being gobbled up by rogue apps.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Win 98 on both machines. Maybe it's just cheap memory. I downloaded a freeware Task Manager, and it indicates I'm using just over 100MB of memory with just one Explorer window open. I don't seem to be running any extra junk or spyware or anything. I think I'll just pull whatever memory's in there and invest in higher quality. Thanks.

― Aaron A., Monday, 5 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, now I have a question:

Does anyone know how to get around not-having-administrator status in Windows XP? I need to install AOLIM badly as well as turning on my animated images in IE that somehow got turned off. I cannot see Pee Wee dance. It makes me sad. HELP!

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

100MB seems like a lot for Win98 with only one IE window open; does it break down what's taking up what portion of the memory?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Seeing as its a new computer it may be worth your while doing a clean install of windows. Who knows what nasties may lurk in the depths. BTW Win98 and Win98SE are no longer supported by M$, they may remove patches from their support area at some point so do it soon.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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