Comments on: Mac Video Help Needed

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:05:19 +0000

OK, took a bit longer than I thought, but everything is now uploaded. Again thanks for all the offers of help and suggestions.

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:53:53 +0000

Whohoo! I’ve done it! (It only took 12 months…) Thanks for all your help and suggestions. Those those interested, I used SUPER (Simplified Universal Player Encoder and Renderer) to convert from Windows Media to Quicktime. It takes about fifteen minutes to do the conversion, and it only took me two goes to get the settings right. And it’s free! So I’m uploading right now - it will take a few hours at my connection speed. Keep an eye on the main post for an imminent update.

By: Dermot Rooney

Dermot Rooney — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:40:26 +0000

Mark,
To play the video on a Mac Mark Corner above is correct, simply download for free the “Flip4Mac” QuickTime plugin (you’ll find it through search on google.com), install it, then open the .WMV file through QuickTime. Once you open it in QuickTime you will need to wait for it to fully download before you can play it properly. If you try to play it before its fully downloaded it will buffer resulting in staggered video and audio. It will take about 20 minutes for the 100mb .WMV file to download over 1mb droadband. Once its fully downloaded simply click the Play button on QuickTime and it plays perfectly, even at full screen.

Many thanks for the video, its a great blessing.

Dermot

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:56:40 +0000

You may be interested in seeing my previous attempts, at the following quality levels: presentation, dvd, broadcast vhs, and web. This is the best I have managed so far, but is not good enough, hence I've not released the URLs before.

By: Jon Harvey

Jon Harvey — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:45:50 +0000

Hi Mark
DVD resolution is 720×576, ~25frames per second (film). I’ll download the video from the other page and try converting it, and let you know how i get on! Jon

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:10:01 +0000

David, Thanks for the links, I’ll check those when I get back from holiday. There are two versions of Lockeridge’s My King arounf. It’s the other version that has all the “Do you know him?”’s in it.

By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:06:54 +0000

Jon, good to hear from you on here. I guess Izd really like DVD quality if that’s a possibility. I forget DVD resolution, is it 576xsomething? Frames per second, about 15 or more. Total file size 60-100Mb. Thanks.

By: Jon Harvey

Jon Harvey — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:53:22 +0000

Hi Mark,

I’ve done some of this before, though I can’t remember settings off-hand. I’ll try and find out and email you in the next day or so. (Size/quality depends varies massively on the codec used, and data-rate chosen)

What is your desired target size?

Jon

p.s. i enjoyed saturday, and found the seminar helpful!

By: David Reimer

David Reimer — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:55:56 +0000

About the “making my own DVD” thing. When trying to find out about this sort of thing, I have found the Doom9.net site to be invaluable.

The page with links to DVD making is here. Follow the “DVD/mini DVD” link from the “DVD Backup (Full Guide)” menu > DVD Authoring Guide > then pick your software! They mostly make use of free/open source software wherever possible.

There are many other such sites out there, of course (see their “Links”!), but I find their guides to be clearly written and very helpful.

Btw - is it just my imagination, or did you edit out a number of “Do you know him?”s from Lockridge’s original? In any case, thanks for your work!

David Reimer

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:31:16 +0000

I had a friend try this on his Mac, but the results were very disappointing. Very jerky images, even at VHS-quality. It looks like about 4 frames per second.