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  • David Buckle March 18, 2009 at 6:52am
    What kind of Files. If your talking Jpegs or image files then you don't. If your taking DVD movie or other protected files then yes.
  • Donna Kuhn March 18, 2009 at 6:53am
    i mean video files, do you know of any software you could recommend?
    • David Buckle > Donna Kuhn March 18, 2009 at 7:09am
      If they are your own videos then iMovie that comes with your Mac should do or get Quicktime Pro. Also Toast 10 is very good. http://www.roxio.com/ If they are protected Movies then you will also need something like Mac the ripper http://www.mrbass.org/mac/dvd/mactheripper/ to decode them.
      • Donna Kuhn > David Buckle March 18, 2009 at 7:17am
        they are my movies. do i open the dvd in iMovie or qt pro instead of it automatically opening with dvd player?
  • Jean Detheux March 18, 2009 at 7:18am
    Not sure I understand the question properly, but if you are talking about capturing videos as they are playing from DVDs, I have been using Snapz Pro, but as I needed yet another license and that thing, with video capture, isn't cheap, I looked for alternatives and discovered "Screenium," and like it a lot.
    • Donna Kuhn > Jean Detheux March 18, 2009 at 7:22am
      what i am trying to say is i burned some of my videos to dvds (in case i have trouble with one of these hard drives down the line) and was wondering if i can save them to my hard disk as mov. files somehow. does that make sense now?!
      • David Buckle > Donna Kuhn March 18, 2009 at 7:28am
        I'm pretty sure you can just need to drag them into your movies file on your hard drive Donna. If you can read the DVD you should be able to read the files on your HD. Either that or open the Video on your computer then Save As to your Movie File on your HD.
      • Jean Detheux > Donna Kuhn March 18, 2009 at 7:38am
        Are those DVDs "DVD Data," or "DVD Video?"
        If DVD Data, yes, you can simpl;y drag and drop, if DVD Video, you're stuck with a "Video_TS" folder, with files QuickTime Pro may or may not play properly.
        If that's the case, you can also look at "DVDxDV Pro". It works very well, converting those files (back) to DV or other QT compatible formats.
        • Donna Kuhn > Jean Detheux March 18, 2009 at 7:44am
          i meant dvd video and yes, i do have those video ts files i didn't know what to do with. thanks for your help. technology tortures me a bit.
          • Jean Detheux > Donna Kuhn March 18, 2009 at 7:56am
            Donna,
            I just made a very quick test, and it looks like the excellent (and free) MPEG Streamclip can open the files contained in a Video_TS folder and convert/export them to QuickTime!
            You may need the MPEG-2 playback component from Apple to make that work.
            Well worth a look.
            Good luck.
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Is anybody making a copy of all the material in the Tutorials Forum

Since the Forum is going away in June, has anyone started to make a copy of all the stuff in the Tutorials forum?I've made copies of some of the tutorial material on the main site, but haven't looked at the Tutorial Forum yet.I'm going to continue copying as much as I can for my own personal use anyway, but if anyone else is doing it, or has already started doing it, please let me know.Maybe we can co-ordinate our efforts. ps can't ..... believe John, would let this happen without so much as a…

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1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson Apr 13

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3 Replies · Reply by Thor Johnson Apr 13

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1 Reply · Reply by Thor Johnson Mar 31

Teenage Tongue Cult

Hi, here is the video I made back in 2010 for my song "Teenage Tongue Cult". I finally found my master folder of image sequence files for it on one of my old hard drives, and since the version I had on my Vimeo was of pretty terrible pixelated low quality visually, I re-did it yesterday. It has extensive use of Studio Artist through the whole thing. I made it by first animating the characters and scenes in Flash, against a mostly kind of muddy green background, a color I knew wasn't being used…

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