Muskoka Mac User Group

I’m not going to make this a habit – but I couldn’t resist passing along a link to a joy of tech cartoon poking fun at the new Microsoft Vista release.

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Further to my long diatribe on buurning a DVD from Keynote, I still am no further ahead. However, I found the following on the Apple website which seemed to address the issue. It did not, at least for me. I am now in correspondence with Apple on this. I had difficulty exporting from Keynote to QuickTime. Then, as instructed, I could not import QuickTime into iMovie of iDVD. I kept being told that they could not “parse” the QuickTime movie nor did they “support” it. ?????

This from Apple:

Burning Keynote presentations in iDVD
When you export a Keynote presentation (one that contains audio) as a QuickTime movie and then try to burn it to a disc using iDVD, the audio won’t be on the resulting disc. This happens because a Keynote QuickTime export produces two separate files:

title.mov
title_soundtrack.mov
The title.mov file must reference the title_soundtrack.mov file to play the audio in QuickTime Player. However, this reference is lost when the title_soundtrack.mov isn’t imported.

To keep the audio intact when burning a DVD:

Import both of the exported .mov files into iMovie, and drag them to the Timeline.
In the Timeline, trim the audio to the video track.
In iMovie’s iDVD pane, click the “Create iDVD Project” button.
In iDVD, burn your project.
This can occur with Keynote versions 1 and 2 and with all versions of iMovie and iDVD.

Bill

Hope everybody had a happy and healthy holidays!

Our next meeting is the 8th. Please spend a couple of minutes and think about what topics you would to discuss and bring your notes to the meeting.

I know I monopolized the last meeting, so whatever we missed there can carry forward to this month. (Anybody remember what we skipped?)

In addition I thought I’d demo either Quicksilver or Growl – two neat (free!) enhancements for your Mac you’ll be sure to love once you see them.

See you soon!