Posted by nappy on 09/15/07 23:13

"FCP User" <newvideo@fastq.com> wrote in message
news:newvideo-AE36A4.14545212092007@news.west.cox.net...
> In article <QISdnQWMRIaHDH7bnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Ty Ford <tyreeford@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 09:28:39 -0400, Martin Heffels wrote
>> (in article <jl85e3ttikeoqnoqs6lfb7rfi47e2o8f3i@4ax.com>):
>>
>> > On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:58:32 -0400, Ty Ford <tyreeford@comcast.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm working on some trance music and the vizualizer in iTunes works
>> >> very
>> >> nicely. Does anyone know how to capture the visualizer display so that
>> >> I
>> >> can
>> >> make complete quicktime movies with the music and the visuals?
>> >
>> > What operating system??? ;-)
>> >
>> > For Windows I could suggest Snagit or it's bigger brother Camtasia.
>> > http://www.techsmith.com/
>> >
>> > No idea about Mac capture ultilities.
>> >
>> > cheers
>> >
>> > -martin-
>> >
>>
>> Thanks Spex and Martin.
>>
>> Sorry, OS X 10.4.9
>>
>> Ty
>>
>>
>>
>> --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
>> Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
>> Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU
>
> Ty,
>
>
> You can try direct capture - (lots of video capture tools available via
> VersionTracker.com) - but I've always found that direct full screen
> capture to the desktop generates a pretty large data stream and clogs
> things up pretty fast - particularly since most apple displays work at a
> native resolution much larger than the 720x470 needed for a full rez
> digital video clip.
>
> I've found it most efficient to output the desktop display to a
> camcorder or VTR and do the recording there - then just treat the
> recording as any other piece of video.
>
> Plug in a $39 VGA to Composite/S-video adaptor from the apple store and
> your screen will automatically resize/sync to the appropriate video rate
> and size - then you can output the full screen at full rez directly to
> any videotape recorder in real time.
>
> FWIW


YUCK! You're not serious! You will NEVER get a converter to generate
anything near the quality of a capture app. It is physically impossble to
do. That is bad advice.



>
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> Bill Davis
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