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y erry hit
Last month I wrote about how
excited I was about the new iDVD
3 and eecially how much I liked
the integration with the other iLife
apps. And while iDVD 3 is very,
very good (FANTASTIC), it’s not
the tool for doing professional
DVDs. Sure, you can get professional results and it is the EASEST
way to create a DVD bar none, but
iDVD has limits on how you may
want your DVD to behave. is
is why Apple sells a professional
DVD authoring app called DVD
Studio Pro. As usual the word “Pro”
means complex and expensive. It’s
like the difference between Adobe
Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop
Elements. Both tools will let you
do similar things, but the Pro version has very few limits, if any at all.
For example, with iDVD 3 you still
can’t author a DVD that is longer
than 90 minutes. With DVD Studio
Pro, you can. With iDVD there is
no way to simply create a DVD that
loops the same video over and over.
With DVD Studio Pro, that would
be child’s play. Of course with
Power comes a learning curve!
With iDVD, just about anybody
could create a DVD in minutes and
smile or laugh out loud as they’re
doing it. With DVD Studio Pro you
have to know what you’re doing
and you will have a serious look on
your face most of the time. I have
used both apps since they were first
introduced and while I absolutely
love iDVD and eecially version
3, I still find that a lot if not most of
my authoring still has to take place
in DVD Studio Pro.
e introduion of DVD
Video promised interaive DVDs
with the possibility of multiple
camera angles that you the viewer
could switch at will. I have yet to
pick up a DVD in the store and
read the cover where it says “this
disc contains multiple angles.” e
reason that there are few if any
multi-angle DVDs out there is
because DVD Movies are still an
afterthought. Hollywood producers aren’t thinking about the DVD
when they’re making their films.
Sure they use multiple cameras,
but they are shooting multiple
angles and deciding in the editing
process which angle you will see on
the big screen. e rest of the footage ends up on the digital cutting
room floor.
For years I’ve been intrigued by
the idea of creating a multi-angle
DVD, but just like the Hollywood
film makers, I haven’t shot an event
with the DVD in mind from the
beginning until recently. One of my
favorite presenters, Michael Balas
came to town last week to do a presentation for our digital video ecial interest group (SIG). I packed
both my digital video cameras and
shot his presentation knowing
that when I returned home (to my
studio) that I would create my first
multi-angle DVD. While there isn’t
enough ace in this publication to
go over all the steps, I will give you
a general outline of what you need
to do.
Step 1. You need to bring in all
the footage to your editing application from both cameras. I use
Adobe Premiere 6.5, but you could
do the same with Final Cut Pro or
Final Cut Express. Sorry iMovie
users, iMovie doesn’t support multiple video tracks.
Step 2. You need to sync the
video from both cameras with
your audio from one of the cameras. ere are several techniques
for this. Some use a Clapper, some
use a camera flash, I use a keyword
oken by the presenter.
Step 3. Now you need to edit
the video and add your chapter
marks. e chapter marks should
come last after you’re completely
done editing.
Step 4. Export each track of
Video out separately to MPEG2
format. You can do the audio with
one of the tracks of video, but there
is no need to do the audio twice.
Step 5. Build your menus in
Photoshop or if you want motion
menus, use Adobe After Effes
or FCP. After Effes is probably
easier to composite with and offers
3 capabilities.
Step 6. Assemble it all in DVD
Studio Pro. When you bring in your
main (angle 1) video track. You can
click the Angle button and add
your second angle MPEG stream to
the first one. You can have up to 9
angles per track.
Step 7. Once your DVD is
done, your viewer will be able
to watch your DVD and switch
camera angles as they wish.
e only downside to doing
multiple angles is for every camera
angle you have you are adding an
equally long video track. So if your
event were one hour long after
editing, having 2 angles would
mean two hours of video. Having
3 angles would be 3 hours of video.
Your creativity will be limited to the
4.3 GBs that will fit on a DVD-R.
e longer your proje, the more
you will have to compress the video
(therefore degrading the quality) to
make it fit on your disc.
If you shoot weddings, you
might want to offer the bride and
groom 2 DVDs. One with the multiangle ceremony and the other with
everything else, like the reception,
etc. See my first Multi-angle DVD
proje at the March 2003 meeting
of MacGroup.
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eview of  as egas acintos se roup eetin
by ichel otlarsky
opic: iife-ihoto 2 
iovie 3
e meeting of the Las Vegas
Macintosh user group was February 8 from 10 AM to noon. ey
meet at the Community College
of Southern Nevada (CCSN)
West Charleston Campus in
Las Vegas. It is a very colorful
campus, the buildings are yellow,
pink, purple.....Inside the room
there were about 30 people; with
late comers by the end of the day,
there were about 40 in attendance
including Shaun, Bob and myself.
ey started off by going over
all of the new Apple produs and
had an overhead for video. ey
were hard wired into the internet,
no Airport available.
We were told that PC Magazine
gave the iMac 4 stars, that is a very
high rating. e meeting lasted
about 45 minutes, then there was
about a 10 minute Q&A session.
We learned that on Feb. 14 Disk
Warrior 3 will be out, questions
about system pref. crashes, Safaribug issues, floppy drives (transfer
data to a cd), mouse problems,
can’t burn data disks using ‘burn’
in OSX (damaged plist could be
the answer), Apple upgrade install
question was told to shut off all
extensions. Someone asked how
One person told us of a sale
Mozilla and Chimera compared, that ended that day on those USB
Chimera seemed to be preferred
plug-in memory devices for $49
after Safari. We were asked how (128 meg) at Comp USA stores
many dot mac account users were (after the in-store and mail-in
there, about half present were, and
rebates). Another person there
told to go download the new Virex. said one USB memory device from
One person was having issues with Fry’s had a 14 page manual for the
“your .mac account is expired”, and
PC to install, for the Mac it just said
ent 45 minutes on the phone “plug it in”.
with Apple and was told that his
en there was an iDVD/iLife/
account expires in Oober. Issues
iMovie3 demo. Comments were
with dot mac accounts.
you are nuts to download iMovie3
en there were concerns
without a broadband conneion
about not being able to boot
because it takes forever. Keynote
into OS9 using the new comput- was mentioned as being $15 for
ers. Someone pointed out you
teachers, some thought it was free
still could on the 15 inch iMacs. for teachers.
Firewire 800 and Airport Extreme
Someone asked about the
were discussed briefly and that the
aquarium screensaver that was
Quark 5.01 updater took 2 hours
being used and serenescreen.com
to update. One person present was the URL they put on the screen
informed us that the Las Vegas
to check it out.
Sun is switching to InDesign from
Quark (he was a LVSun employee, iPhoto demo
the implication was that the LVSun iMovie demo
can no longer stand dealing with
Quark). Mac Design Magazine
says Quark has gone away for the 10 minute bre for .
professionals, since it won’t work
ere was a raffle for an Applein OSX.
Works 6 book, a game, and some
Netscape crashes was a main MX Suite T-shirts. ere were
topic. ey took a poll. “How do
announcements, some information
you get on the internet?” Reonse
on an all Mac Sci-Fi convention
was mostly Cox Cable followed by
planned for Las Vegas, vegassfas
DSL, with several sarcastic com- [email protected]. ey are
ments about Sprint’s DSL service. trying to host a Sci-Fi convention
One guy told a funny story about
using Macs only for brochures,
a phone call he made Friday to
check in, etc.
AT&T, the prompt he received was
“please hold on while we cancel this
End of meeting.
call”.
en there was a 15 minute Noon.
break. Following the break, nominations were made for upcoming
eleions. en the overhead didn’t
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work. Typical meeting so far!
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ips nd rics
by hyllis vans
[email protected]
I’m not paranoid by nature, but
with all of the yware around, I
decided to try a nifty little piece
of shareware called Little Snitch
that bills itself as an application
supervisor. Little Snitch is an OS
X System Preference panel that
watches all of your software and
notifies you if something tries to
establish a network conneion,
giving you all of the conneion
details including the name of the
application. You can choose to
allow the conneion, deny it or
add a permanent rule for future
similar conneions. At $24.95, it’s
a little steep for shareware, but I
paid it after playing with it for a
couple of weeks. Until registered, it
times out after 3 hours, but you can
restart it. Download it from http://
www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/
index.html where you can also find
more information about it.
u Cloc
If you attended the recent DV
SIG meeting that featured Michael
Balas as guest eaker, you may
have noticed that the clock in his
menu bar looked a little different.
e time was elled out. Unless I
miss my guess, I’d say he was using
a piece of freeware called Fuzzy
Clock. It doesn’t give precise time,
but “fuzzy” time like four-thirty or
a quarter to twelve. And it does it
in foreign languages, local diales,
and crazy things like Pig Latin. I
have mine set to Ragusano, a Sicilian diale. It’s customizable, so
when I have the time, I’ll probably
create a modified version in the
Sicilian diale that I grew up with.
Fuzzy Clock won’t make you more
produive, but it might be nice
for those who are planning foreign
travel or trying to learn another
language. Or use something like
Pig Latin, just to make people do
a double take. Download it at http:
//objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html .
ount
Mounting disk images is one
of my least favorite things. It seems
like Disk Copy Helper takes forever
to launch. If you feel the same, you
need to download Mount at http:
//mount.houchin.us/. You’ll never
go back to Disk Copy. And it’s free!
Try it and I guarantee you’ll be
hooked. I even added it to my dock.
Apple should buy this one and hire
the person who wrote it.\
As always, if I can help you
troubleshoot a problem between
meetings, just email me. If I don’t
answer immediately, I’m either
up to my earlobes in work or I’m
researching the problem. I usually reond within 24 hours. And
pay those shareware fees! We are
fortunate to have a bunch of very
talented programmers out there. If
we want them to keep writing, we
have to support them.
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PRAM
......is an acronym for Parameter
Random Access Memory. This is
where your Mac stores certain system and device settings in a location
that Mac OS X can access quickly
when you boot up your Mac.
As its name implies the information
is stored in RAM that is powered by
your PRAM battery on your Mac’s
logic board. The settings stored in
your Mac’s PRAM will vary depending on what kind of Mac you have.
It will also vary depending on what
type of devices and hard drives that
are connected to your Mac. New to
Mac OS X, the PRAM does not store
display or network settings. If you
are experiencing video or network
problems, resetting PRAM will not
help you. When the PRAM is reset,
you should verify your time zone
settings, startup volume settings, and
volume settings using the Mac OS X
System Preferences application.
Here is some of the information that
is stored in your Mac’s PRAM…
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Time zone settings
DVD region setting
Startup volume settings
Speaker volume settings
Recent kernel panic
information.
Status of AppleTalk
Serial Port Configuration
and Port definition
Alarm clock setting
Application font
Serial printer location
Autokey rate
Autokey delay
Speaker volume
Attention (beep) sound
Double-click time
Caret blink time
(insertion point rate)
Mouse speed
Startup disk settings
Menu blink count
Monitor depth
32-bit addressing
Virtual memory
RAM disk
Disk cache
GREAT
GREAT OS
OS X
X TIPS
TIPS
Resetting PRAM and NVRAM
on iMac, iBook, and Power Mac computers
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R.
You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Press the power button to turn the computer on.
You will hear the computer’s startup sound.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys.
You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and
you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
Your computer’s PRAM and the NVRAM are reset to the default values.
The clock settings were not changed.
*X Tip -- Run The Test
This one is a must-know - if you don’t know about it, here it is. I do this every time I
have a freeze or crash, just in case. Running fsck is similar to running Disk Utility’s First
Aid, only better. First, it doesn’t require a CD, so it’s faster than the Disk Utility way. Second, when it’s done running, you don’t have to reboot if you know the magic word (hint:
it’s “exit.”) Any time you think your Mac isn’t acting quite right, give it a try. Disk Utility
and fsck are supposed to do the same exact thing, but there are times when fsck may be
preferred. Apple implies that Disk Utility runs the same tests and repairs disks the
same way as fsck. But my experience has been different. Several times in the past few
months, Disk Utility has given my hard disk a clean bill of health, but when I ran fsck immediately thereafter, it found and repaired multiple issues. So I prefer to run it first, then
Disk Utility if necessary. To run fsck, you first need to start up your Mac in single-user
mode. Here’s how:
1. Restart your Mac.
2. Immediately press and hold the Command and “S” keys.
You’ll see a bunch of text begin scrolling on your screen. In a few more seconds, you’ll
see the Unix command line prompt (#). Congratulations. You’re now in single-user mode.
I bet you’ve never seen your Mac screen look like that before.
Now that you’re at the # prompt, here’s how to run fsck:
1. Type: “fsck - - y” (that’s fsck-space-minus-y).
2. Press Return.
The fsck utility will blast some text onto your screen. If there’s damage to
your disk, you’ll see a message that says:
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
If you see this message--and this is extremely important--repeat Steps 1 and 2 again and
again until that message no longer appears. It is normal to have to run fsck more than
once -- the first run’s repairs often uncover additional problems. When fsck finally reports
that no problems were found, and the # prompt reappears:
3. Type: “reboot” to restart, or type “exit” to start up without rebooting.
4. Press Return.
Your Mac should proceed to start up normally to the login window or the Finder.
Just a quick note: if there was a lot of damage to a disk, rather than type “reboot” or
“exit” a better option would be:
shutdown - nh now
-n = do not “sync” disks, which essentially prevents any
corrupted data that was copied into your RAM at boot from
being written back onto your freshly fscked disk
-h = shut down at the given hour (now)
You’ll then need to boot again of course, but that’s a
minor burden...
Shirley Weichel
*Taken from OSXFAQ - Dr. Mac’s OS X Tip-of-the-Day
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