- In System Preferences, configure Energy Saver to never sleep and make sure the "Put hard disks to sleep whenever possible" option is not selected.
- Quit all applications, except for Final Cut Express, including applications running in the background (Mail, Safari, iChat, desktop toys, and such).
- Do not interrupt the Print to Video operation in any way (including clicking the mouse or typing on the keyboard).
- Don't daisy-chain devices to FireWire drives. For example, you shouldn't connect an iPod to your FireWire drive's FireWire port during the Print To Video process.
- Don't use a FireWire 800 cable to connect your camera.
- In System Preferences, configure the screen saver to never start in the Desktop & Screen Saver pane (turn off any other third-party screen saver too).
- Unmount any active server volumes.
- Make sure that the camera is ready before beginning the Print To Video process.
- Print to video may not yield the same frame-accuracy with HDV as other formats. To ensure all your frames are output to tape when using Print to Video, allow up to an extra second of leader or black before your program material.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express HD: Tips for HDV Print to Video
If you want to get the best quality with HDV Print to Video, here's a check list of things to do or note before starting:
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Import Mail From Outlook
Open Outlook Express on your PC.
1. Highlight all mail in a folder e.g. "important mail", and
drag them into a any folder on your hard drive (ideally -
outlook mail/important). Having Outlook
fullscreen) and dragging the mail to a folder on your
desktop seems to be the easiest way, because you dont
have to switch windows.
2. Make as many folders and fill them this way as you
have/need, then copy them to your Mac.
3. Start Microsoft
Entourage
Drive' version of Microsoft Office
comes with any new Mac).
4. Drag them into a folder the same way as you exported
them on your pc.
5. Now you should have the mail in Entourage.
6. Mail can now
import mailboxes from Entourage.
don't forget to delete all the other mails (in folders,
entourage, outlook), all those mails usually fill up pretty
much space on your drives
Alternative Method
another possibility is to intall mozilla thunderbird (free) on your pc
1. it will ask you during install if it should import from outlook -
do so
2. now it the mails should be in thunderbird
3. you can just take the thunderbird forlder (find in user files)
and move them to your mac
4. find files with the name of your mailboxes (they dont have a
suffix) and rename them to nameofthefile.mbox
5. and open them WITH entourage
6. if you want to have them in mail - drag and drop them from
entourage to mail
OR
Download Emailchemy, O2M.
This is just a Referal it is not sure that it works 100% All time..
1. Highlight all mail in a folder e.g. "important mail", and
drag them into a any folder on your hard drive (ideally -
outlook mail/important). Having Outlook
fullscreen) and dragging the mail to a folder on your
desktop seems to be the easiest way, because you dont
have to switch windows.
2. Make as many folders and fill them this way as you
have/need, then copy them to your Mac.
3. Start Microsoft
Drive' version of Microsoft Office
comes with any new Mac).
4. Drag them into a folder the same way as you exported
them on your pc.
5. Now you should have the mail in Entourage.
6. Mail
import mailboxes from Entourage.
don't forget to delete all the other mails (in folders,
entourage, outlook), all those mails usually fill up pretty
much space on your drives
Alternative Method
another possibility is to intall mozilla thunderbird (free) on your pc
1. it will ask you during install if it should import from outlook -
do so
2. now it the mails should be in thunderbird
3. you can just take the thunderbird forlder (find in user files)
and move them to your mac
4. find files with the name of your mailboxes (they dont have a
suffix) and rename them to nameofthefile.mbox
5. and open them WITH entourage
6. if you want to have them in mail - drag and drop them from
entourage to mail
OR
Download Emailchemy, O2M.
This is just a Referal it is not sure that it works 100% All time..
Monday, July 28, 2008
iPhone Tips
Update location information on original iPhone :
You might think you are out of luck when using Location services on your old iPhone, but you aren't! You have to perform an extra step, and you are relying on the original iPhone's tower triangulation method instead of GPS, but it's better than nothing. It, of course, requires the iPhone 2.0 software.
To use location services with your current local location, before you access any program that needs to know your location, go to the Maps program, and use the Find Location icon to get your current location by triangulation. Then, access the program that plans on using location services, and it will use your current location. (If you've used the "OK to use my location" button to access a program from one location, then move to another location and launch a location-aware program, your stored location will reflect your first position until you force it to update using this technique.)
I've had to do this manually every time I wanted to get local information, but it works well for apps like box office when you don't know the local zip code, or CareerBuilder when you just want a general location in order to display local jobs. Just remember to take the location for what it is.
Connect to a LEAP wireless network with iPhone 2.0
My company uses the LEAP security protocol for its wireless network. The iPhone doesn't list LEAP as a network security option, but the following workaround works with iPhones and iPod Touches that have the 2.0 software update.
Go to your Settings app. Then select Wi-Fi. Next, select Other. Enter the name of your LEAP network. Under Security, select WPA Enterprise. Then enter your username and password. That's it. It works like a charm for my company's wireless network.
Use MobileMe push on iPhone with alternate From address
This hint is for those who have a primary email address, say a@default.com, and would like to use this email address, but would like the 'push' aspects of their MobileMe account, say a@me.com. It would be useful to be able to send email from a MobileMe account, but have a@default.com show up by default as the From address. This hint is similar to this previously-posted hint, in that one can set their primary email address to forward a copy to their MobileMe account. However, this previous hint does this, but only by subscribing to their MobileMe account as a standard IMAP account, which would not use push.
For this hint, one also needs an additional Gmail account (which may or may not be the primary email address) -- assume this account is a@gmail.com. and one would need to subscribe to that within the iPhone as well. Under the Mail settings for the MobileMe account, change the sent mail server to use smpt.gmail.com instead of the MobileMe sent mail server.
Then, in the Gmail settings page on the web, on the Accounts tab, configure it so that your Gmail account can send mail as a@default.com. (This involves gmail sending an email to a@default.com, confirming that it can send mail as that address). Then after that is added, click on Default next to a@default.com to make that your default sent mail address.
In this way, when one sends mail from the MobileMe account on the iPhone, even though it displays a@me.com as the From address, Gmail's mail server will replace a@me.com with a@default.com, and the receiver will see that in the From address. When replying, the recipient will reply to that email address as well.
If you would rather not change your Gmail settings to use a default alternate From address, you could get an additional Gmail account that only is used for this purpose. This would also be useful, in that you would not get new mail to this alternate Gmail address, which would affect the unread message count of mail on the iPhone. It would obviously be good to set this Gmail account to refresh manually on the iPhone as well, to save battery life.
Listen to music while playing games on iPhone 2.0
Simply start listening to your music, then while listening, start your game. Wait until the music stops and the game's music begins. Now just press the top iPhone button; this will put your phone to sleep. Press your headphone button to start the iPod music, than wake up your phone, slide to activate, and you'll be back to the game while listening to your music.
Search iPhone (2.0) contacts by first and last name
On the new iPhone software, you can search for a contact using the first and last name. For instance, if you want to search for Pedro Fernandes, you would write P F (that's P, then a space, then an F). The iPhone will filter out all the contacts with first and last name starting with P and F, and vice-versa. You can further refine the search by typing more letters. This is a great time-saving feature; thanks, Apple!
Bonus hint... on a standard phone (none-Apple) I always stored the names in such a way that you can do this search. So for instance I would have: Pedro Fernandes stored as PFernandes Pedro, Tania Silva stored as TSilva Tania, Daniel Fidalgo stored as DFidalgo Daniel, etc. This enables a quick search through first and last names. So if you are stuck (or by choice) have an old (classic) phone, maybe you find this usefull as well.
You might think you are out of luck when using Location services on your old iPhone, but you aren't! You have to perform an extra step, and you are relying on the original iPhone's tower triangulation method instead of GPS, but it's better than nothing. It, of course, requires the iPhone 2.0 software.
To use location services with your current local location, before you access any program that needs to know your location, go to the Maps program, and use the Find Location icon to get your current location by triangulation. Then, access the program that plans on using location services, and it will use your current location. (If you've used the "OK to use my location" button to access a program from one location, then move to another location and launch a location-aware program, your stored location will reflect your first position until you force it to update using this technique.)
I've had to do this manually every time I wanted to get local information, but it works well for apps like box office when you don't know the local zip code, or CareerBuilder when you just want a general location in order to display local jobs. Just remember to take the location for what it is.
Connect to a LEAP wireless network with iPhone 2.0
My company uses the LEAP security protocol for its wireless network. The iPhone doesn't list LEAP as a network security option, but the following workaround works with iPhones and iPod Touches that have the 2.0 software update.
Go to your Settings app. Then select Wi-Fi. Next, select Other. Enter the name of your LEAP network. Under Security, select WPA Enterprise. Then enter your username and password. That's it. It works like a charm for my company's wireless network.
Use MobileMe push on iPhone with alternate From address
This hint is for those who have a primary email address, say a@default.com, and would like to use this email address, but would like the 'push' aspects of their MobileMe account, say a@me.com. It would be useful to be able to send email from a MobileMe account, but have a@default.com show up by default as the From address. This hint is similar to this previously-posted hint, in that one can set their primary email address to forward a copy to their MobileMe account. However, this previous hint does this, but only by subscribing to their MobileMe account as a standard IMAP account, which would not use push.
For this hint, one also needs an additional Gmail account (which may or may not be the primary email address) -- assume this account is a@gmail.com. and one would need to subscribe to that within the iPhone as well. Under the Mail settings for the MobileMe account, change the sent mail server to use smpt.gmail.com instead of the MobileMe sent mail server.
Then, in the Gmail settings page on the web, on the Accounts tab, configure it so that your Gmail account can send mail as a@default.com. (This involves gmail sending an email to a@default.com, confirming that it can send mail as that address). Then after that is added, click on Default next to a@default.com to make that your default sent mail address.
In this way, when one sends mail from the MobileMe account on the iPhone, even though it displays a@me.com as the From address, Gmail's mail server will replace a@me.com with a@default.com, and the receiver will see that in the From address. When replying, the recipient will reply to that email address as well.
If you would rather not change your Gmail settings to use a default alternate From address, you could get an additional Gmail account that only is used for this purpose. This would also be useful, in that you would not get new mail to this alternate Gmail address, which would affect the unread message count of mail on the iPhone. It would obviously be good to set this Gmail account to refresh manually on the iPhone as well, to save battery life.
Listen to music while playing games on iPhone 2.0
Simply start listening to your music, then while listening, start your game. Wait until the music stops and the game's music begins. Now just press the top iPhone button; this will put your phone to sleep. Press your headphone button to start the iPod music, than wake up your phone, slide to activate, and you'll be back to the game while listening to your music.
Search iPhone (2.0) contacts by first and last name
On the new iPhone software, you can search for a contact using the first and last name. For instance, if you want to search for Pedro Fernandes, you would write P F (that's P, then a space, then an F). The iPhone will filter out all the contacts with first and last name starting with P and F, and vice-versa. You can further refine the search by typing more letters. This is a great time-saving feature; thanks, Apple!
Bonus hint... on a standard phone (none-Apple) I always stored the names in such a way that you can do this search. So for instance I would have: Pedro Fernandes stored as PFernandes Pedro, Tania Silva stored as TSilva Tania, Daniel Fidalgo stored as DFidalgo Daniel, etc. This enables a quick search through first and last names. So if you are stuck (or by choice) have an old (classic) phone, maybe you find this usefull as well.
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