Subject: Info-Mac Digest V19 #52 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 19 Jun 02 Volume 19 : Issue 52 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#633/10-Jun-02 [*] TidBITS#634/17-Jun-02 .MSG Files: How do I open them [*] 1.9 UPDATE of Email Magician.sit (abstract and file) [*] ChemBuddy 1.0.3 for Mac OS X [*] ClassFoot 0.9b4 [*] Description for earthdesk104.bin [*] Geography Challenge v. 1.0 (Education - HyperCard Stack) [*] iff Taxi: a game utility for The Sims [*] image-sxm-168-2.hqx [*] Keyboard Maestro v1.1.1J - Japanese Version [*] Mondriaan 0.5J - Japanese Version [*] Synk 4.0 [*] UnCoverIt 1.4 [*] URL Manager Pro 3.0gmJ - Japanese Version Cleaning up forwarded email text dos2unix-type program for translating .txt files Files/Folders from Hell / OS X Outlook Express Freeze Q: .avi files on Mac Q: Javascript for pop-up text on mouseover? Q: Video capture framing problem Q: Video capture framing problem Q: Video capture framing problem wanted printer driver The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . Downloading and Submitting Files from the Info-Mac Archive: * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at: * Search the archive via the MIT HyperArchive at: . * To submit files for the archive, email the binhexed file with a description to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V19 #52" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#633/10-Jun-02 TidBITS#633/10-Jun-02 Scared by the big jump to Mac OS X? We were too, but we've assembled a guide to upgrading from Mac OS 9 that will eliminate many of the common problems people experience. Also, Adam reports on the first MacMania Geek Cruise - read on if you've ever wondered what it would be like to cruise to Alaska with nearly 200 other Mac geeks. In the news, Apple started selling the eMac to the general market, and we cover Mac OS X 10.1.5 and Mailsmith 1.5.3. Topics: MailBITS/10-Jun-02 Cruising with Mac Folk Avoiding Trouble in the Move to Mac OS X, Part 1 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-633.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors To: digest@info-mac.org, mac-l@sparky.listmoms.net, Subject: [*] TidBITS#634/17-Jun-02 TidBITS#634/17-Jun-02 You've uploaded your digital photos and movies to your iDisk for the world to see, but are your visitors being turned away? That's what happened to Adam following the recent MacMania Geek Cruise, prompting a look at Apple's newly (and quietly) introduced iTools bandwidth restrictions. We also have part 2 of our guide to upgrading to Mac OS X, and note the release of Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac OS X and Kensington's MouseWorks for Mac OS X 2.0. Topics: MailBITS/17-Jun-02 iTools HomePage Bandwidth Limitations Avoiding Trouble in the Move to Mac OS X, Part 2 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-634.etx; 30K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:03:19 -0700 From: Herb Kroemer To: Info Mac Digest Subject: .MSG Files: How do I open them I find myself with a lare number of files whose name ends in ".MSG" that I am unable to open in any of the applications that I have installed. They are supposedly some sort of email files. How do I open them? Herbert Kroemer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara -- Herbert Kroemer Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara EMail: kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2002 From: Christopher Yavelow To: Subject: [*] 1.9 UPDATE of Email Magician.sit (abstract and file) This is a Stuffit archive of Email Magician 1.9.1 for Eudora=AE (Mac), the one-button solution to managing your email from YAV Interactive Media, the company that produced the internet power-tool MetaTag Manager, and developed LEGO's award-winning first CD-ROM. The software automatically creates filters, mailboxes, and nicknames (address book entries) with one click. You can generate hundreds of filters in the time it takes to construct one manually. Email Magician creates mailboxes to go with your new filters, and can also add new nicknames to your address book corresponding to your new mailboxes. This "Swiss Army Knife" for Eudora=AE includes powerful spam filtering and comes with well over a hundred spam filters. Email Magician lets you organize and edit your filters, mailboxes, and nicknames too. The program also offers one-click archiving of mailboxes, as well as automated archiving of messages within mailboxes exceeding a specified message limit, or of entire mailboxes that haven't been modified within a certain time-period. Version 1.3 added an option to collect spammer addresses from your spam box, or other holding area with a single click. Email Magician uses this ever-growing collection to generate new four new types of spam filters so you won't be bothered by such message clutter again. Version 1.4 added FileMaker export options, including stripping html tags in the export process. Version 1.6 added a Valid Accounts filter, while version 1.9 added History List filters and management. Email Magician introduces an intelligent Urgent Filter note-pad where you jot down phrases and email addresses that tell Email Magician to override existing filters and gather all your "to do" items into a single mailbox for quick disposition. Email Magician automates many email "house-cleaning" chores one performs periodically -- besides message and mailbox archival, the software offers deletion of empty mailboxes and "orphan-filters," meaning filters targeting missing mailboxes, creation of filters and/or mailboxes for all nicknames in your address books, creation of "group" addresses for use with Eudora's "Intersects Nickname" options, and much more. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/email-magician-19.hqx; 2527 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2002 From: Andrew Merenbach To: Subject: [*] ChemBuddy 1.0.3 for Mac OS X ChemBuddy is a chemical analysis program for students, chemists, and hobbyists alike. It performs many functions from various aspects of chemistry. Complete online help is available. Please note that ChemBuddy requires Mac OS X 10.1.2 or above. [Archived as /info-mac/sci/chembuddy-103.hqx; 1421 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2002 From: Jean-Pierre Curcio To: Subject: [*] ClassFoot 0.9b4 ClassFoot is an application that allows to store soccer match results, compute ranking and display statistics for virtually any football competition. The 0.9b4 version is still under construction but allows to manage the FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan 2002 competition. It runs under Mac OS X or under Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x with CarbonLib 1.4 and support English, French and Spanish languages. ClassFoot est une application qui permet de stocker des resultats de matches de football, de calculer les classements et d'afficher les statistiques d'a peu pres n'importe quelle competition de football. La version 0.9b4 est encore en construction mais permet de gerer la Coupe du monde Coree / Japon 2002. Elle fonctionne sous Mac OS X ou sous Mac OS 8.6 et Mac OS 9.x avec CarbonLib 1.4, en francais, en anglais et en espagnol. [Archived as /info-mac/game/classfoot-09b4.hqx; 336 K] ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jun 2002 From: Trygve Inda To: Subject: [*] Description for earthdesk104.bin EarthDesk replaces your static desktop picture with ever-changing, beautiful maps of the world with correct sun and moon illumination. * Eleven different projections. * Political and satellite maps. * Zoom from 50% to 400%. * City lights appear at night. * Atlas contains 10,000 cities. * Supports OS 8.6+ & OS X. -- Trygve H. Inda EarthDesk Developer Web: http://www.timepalette.com [Archived as /info-mac/gui/earthdesk-104.hqx; 4362 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2002 From: Doug Eernisse To: Subject: [*] Geography Challenge v. 1.0 (Education - HyperCard Stack) Geography Challenge version 1.0 is a modest HyperCard stack for Macs that is actually two games: Country Challenge and USA Challenge. When it was originally released (1993) and last updated (1996) it featured only Country Challenge, a multiple choice style game that can be played by up to four players. Country Challenge will effectively test your knowledge of worldwide or regional capitals, and this version has been updated to be politically current as of 2002. The other game, USA Challenge, is new with this version, and features a colorful map of the USA instead of choices. From experience, it is simple enough that kids enjoy playing it. Expect them to soon master all the U.S. states and capitals. Once the "Play" button is clicked, the game will display the name of a state, capital, or "other city" and the object is to click on the corresponding state as quickly as possible. If all 50 states are clicked on fast enough, you will earn a spot on the High Scores listing. Because Geography Challenge is a HyperCard stack, you also need to download Apple's free HyperCard Player application before you can use Geography Challenge, assuming it is not already on your Macintosh. Like the original version, Geography Challenge version 1.0 is postcardware. If you like it, please send us a postcard. The most current version is available from: http://biology.fullerton.edu/deernisse/geochallenge.html [Archived as /info-mac/edu/yng/geo-challenge-10.hqx; 80 K] ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jun 2002 From: bangsplat software To: Subject: [*] iff Taxi: a game utility for The Sims iff Taxi v1.0 iff Taxi is a utility for making "The Sims" IFF object files available to the downtown buy mode of the "Hot Date" expansion pack. Registered versions of iff Taxi have batch capability so you can make even a large collection of downloaded objects downtown-ready within several minutes instead of several hours. Requirements: Mac OS X or 9 (with CarbonLib) iff Taxi is copyright 2002, Cherie Benoit. http://www.bangsplat.cc http://www.bangsplat.cc/contact/ Redistribution on official Info-Mac CD-ROMs permitted. -------------------------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/game/com/iff-taxi-10.hqx; 1040 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jun 2002 From: Steve Barrett To: Subject: [*] image-sxm-168-2.hqx Image SXM is a version of the public domain image analysis software NIH Image that has been extended to handle the loading, display and analysis of scanning microscope images. Image SXM supports images from the following systems: Burleigh Instruments Digital Instruments NanoScope DME Rasterscope Gatan DigitalMicrograph (DigiScan) JEOL SEM, WinSem and SPM Klocke Nanotechnik SPM and SNOM Leica TCS LEO Molecular Imaging Noran Vantage Omicron and Omicron SCALA Oxford Instruments TOPSystem Park Scientific Instruments Philips Quesant Instruments RHK Technology ThermoMicroscopes TopoMetrix Vacuum Generators WA Technology Zeiss LSM To keep up to date with news of the latest version of Image SXM, check the web page http://reg.ssci.liv.ac.uk/ If you have problems, or any comments or suggestions for new features that you would like to see in future versions of Image SXM, then please email me. Steve Barrett June 2002 S.D.Barrett@liv.ac.uk [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/image-sxm-168-2.hqx; 3974 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Keyboard Maestro v1.1.1J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Keyboard Maestro package. * Multi-Action Hot Keys and Drag-and-Drop Editing of Hot Keys make Keyboard Maestro the most powerful shareware hot key utility there is! * Strategic application control is now just a finger touch away with the new Move or Click Mouse Action. * It's now easy as 1, 2, 3 to Restart or Shutdown you computer, put your computer to Sleep, Activate your Screen Saver, and Open or Close the CD Tray. * Keyboard Maestro has integrated its Open File or Folder action with Default Folder X v1.5 to allow the selection of files or folders in any active Open/Save dialog with Keyboard Mastro hot keys. * Improved saving of application data will prevent Keyboard Maestro from forgetting your applications even if you upgrade them and their names change! * Ahhücconvenience! Program Switcher feature no longer has a use limitation in the Lite version. * Did we mention that you can now use Program Switcher indefinitely for FREE?!?! The mouse is a great invention - it has revolutionize how we interact with computers. Unfortunately, doing repetitive tasks with the mouse is tedious, error prone, and tiring. With Keyboard Maestro, you can execute most any task that you frequently perform simply by pressing a keystroke. You can even create simple scripts in Keyboard Maestro which execute a series of events that you define. For example, if there is a series of buttons you regularly click in order to accomplish a common task, Keyboard Maestro can automate those clicks with one simple keystroke! Keyboard Maestro is also fully integrated with the popular MacOS X system enhancements Default Folder X and Xounds. Program Switcher enables you two switch, quit, hide, or launch any application simply by pressing a keystroke. With Clipboard Switcher, you can copy anything once, and then paste it into any application at any time - even if you have copied something else in the mean time. Clipboard Switcher gives your Mac an unlimited number of clipboards, all of which are accessible via a simple keystroke. Copy anything from any application and then paste it into any application at any time. Keyboard Maestro even saves and restores your clipboard through user log outs and system restarts. [Archived as /info-mac/gui/keyboard-maestro-111-jp.hqx; 1380 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jun 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Mondriaan 0.5J - Japanese Version This package includes the Japanese versions of the Mondriaan menu extra and control strip module for URL Manager Pro. Mondriaan is a menu extra or 'menulet'. It appears as an icon in the upper right corner of your Mac OS X menu bar. On Mac OS 9, Mondriaan is a Control Strip Module and appears in your Control Strip. Mondriaan is freeware for use with URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. Mondriaan has five sets of bookmarks that you configure from the Favorites Window (Edit menu of URL Manager Pro). The five sets are: Favorites, Explore, Friends, FTPs and Daily. Mondriaan is ideal when you need to access some web sites quickly and don't want to launch the URL Manager Pro application. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/mondriaan-05-jp.hqx; 158 K] ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jun 2002 From: Randall Voth To: Subject: [*] Synk 4.0 Homepage + Email ```````````````````````````````````````` http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~rvoth rvoth@mac.com rvoth@uniserve.com Requirements ```````````````````````````````````````` Macintosh OS X 10.1 or later Features ```````````````````````````````````````` * native Cocoa application * informative preview window gives you full control over what will happen * intelligent synchronization that knows when you have removed a file from a folder or added one in * powerful archival features that keeps and organizes every modified document * can consider changes in permissions to be a modified file Shareware ```````````````````````````````````````` Synk is $15 US shareware (register online) Upgrades to Synk are always free for registered users. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/synk-40.hqx; 449 K] ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jun 2002 From: "Ilja A. Iwas" To: Subject: [*] UnCoverIt 1.4 UnCoverIt is a shareware application that automatically generates labels for different kinds of storage medias. Unlike other label printing applications you don't have to enter the name of the files on your disk manually. UnCoverIt scans your disk and places icons and file names at the right place and the right size automatically. UnCoverIt can create covers for either data volumes or Audio CDs. UnCoverIt comes with cover layouts for the following storage medias: -CD-ROM -Audio-CD -Iomega ZIP -Iomega JAZ -Iomation SuperDisk -MO-Cartridges -ORB drives Audio CD covers can be made from a folder of MP3 or AIFF files, a track list thats saved in your Macintoshs "CD Remote Programs" file, an AudioCD inside your Macintoshs CD-ROM drive or iTunes playlist file. PRICING: UnCoverIt is available in three different license forms: Single User License: $10 Site License: $50 World Wide License: $500 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: - MacOS 8.6 or later classic MacOS (with CarbonLib 1.4) or MacOS 10.1 or later - 8 MByte free RAM CONTACT Information: Ilja A. Iwas email: iwas@kagi.com [Archived as /info-mac/prn/un-cover-it-14.hqx; 1270 K] ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jun 2002 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 3.0gmJ - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the URL Manager Pro package. "In the shareware arena, my pick is URL Manager" - Adam C. Engst "You have got me addicted" - Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle "A must have for serious Web users" - Tucows rating: 5 out of 5 URL Manager Pro is the most powerful bookmark manager on the Macintosh. It offers: * Integration : You have access to your bookmarks from your browser's menu bar and from the Mac OS X Dock, and with the Mondriaan Menu Extra for Mac OS X you can access your most used bookmark sets directly from the Mac OS X menu bar, even when URL Manager Pro isn't running * Document Storage : Your bookmarks are stored in URL Manager Pro bookmark documents, which you can store and manipulate in the normal Macintosh way. No need to hunt for your bookmarks in preferences folders of browsers. You can make automatic periodic saves and make copies of bookmark documents on backup devices on each save. * History : You can surf the web using several different browsers while URL Manager Pro will keep recording the History of each. * Importing and exporting bookmarks : The File menu gives you a list of all of the browsers that URL Manager Pro can import from and export to. It lets you 'harvest' bookmarks by scanning HTML and text files for bookmarks and URLs. * It lets you edit and organize bookmarks fast : You can use inline editing, label and color your bookmarks and use drag and drop of bookmarks within and between bookmark windows. * Tap Sherlock power : You can index your bookmark file and tap the power of Sherlock to look for words in your bookmark files. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/urlm-pro-30gm-jp.hqx; 3269 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:44:47 -0400 From: "Roger S. Cohen" To: digest@info-mac.org, Allan Hunter Subject: Cleaning up forwarded email text The Info-Mac Network said on 6/3/02 6:30 PM: >Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:44:58 -0400 >From: Allan Hunter >Subject: Q: Cleaning up forwarded email text > > >At 2:48 PM -0500 5/16/02, Sam M. Hunter wrote: >>I'm sure everyone knows the problem: I get forwarded email, jokes, etc., >>with about 14 carats (>>>>...) in front of each line, along with >>multiple carriage returns, thus breaking up the lines of text in the >>middle, etc. >> >>Is there a standalone shareware program that can clean this mess up? I use and like TextSoap from Unmarked Software. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International roger@rogercohen.com http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:45:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Arthur Snoke To: The Info-Mac Network Subject: dos2unix-type program for translating .txt files I am preparing a CD with a number of packages (.tgz and .zip compressed directory trees) some of which come from PCs. I would like to find a program like the UNIX dos2unix for the MAC which could translate text files, getting rid of the PC line-ending characters. Simpletext gives ugly little boxes down the left side. BBEdit does the translation, as do word processing programs like WORD. But I would like to provide a separate program on the CD for MAC users. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Arthur Snoke p.s. Ideally it could work on both OS9 and OS10. I can probably find a sed script which should work on OSX. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:44:48 +0200 From: "Michael S. Silverstein" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Files/Folders from Hell / OS X I am using OS X 10.1.4: I have a file (Installer Log File created by the Adobe Acrobat patch) that I cannot even put in the Trash since 'this item is owned by root'. There are several folders in the Trash which I cannot throw away: 'the operation cannot be completed because one or more of the required items cannot be found'. Can someone tell me how I get rid of this stuff? Thanks! michael silverstein materials engineering technion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:40:31 +0100 From: Tom Murphy/Tom=?ISO-8859-1?B?4XMgTyBNdXJjaPo=?= To: Subject: Outlook Express Freeze Tom Murphy,37 Aylesbury, Kilkenny. My I Mac has taken to freezing on start up . Mostly this is when I go to email Outlook Express. I have to restart about four times before I can work away normally . Any ideas?? Tom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:43:05 +0900 From: danmac@gol.com To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Q: .avi files on Mac How can I view .avi files on my Mac? I'm running MacOS 9.1 with QT 5.0.5. QT doesn't seem to be able to handle them (required software unavailable??), and neither does RealPlayer (it tries to download software but flakes out halfway) or Windows Media Player 7 (it says that the files are the wrong format). TIA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:15:59 -0700 From: Paul Brians To: wsu-macusers-list@listproc.wsu.edu, digest@info-mac.org Subject: Q: Javascript for pop-up text on mouseover? In the Finder and in many Mac applications, if you leave your cursor resting on a button for a second or two a bit of text pops up telling you what it's good for. That's the effect I'd like to get in HTML. I want to have a small photo on a Web page which, on mouseover, would trigger a Javascript which pops up a few words of text identifying the image. I've trolled the Web briefly for examples, but most of the rollover scripts I've seen are more elaborate than I want, aimed at creating hyperlinks or displaying gifs. I just want a little informative text. Can anyone point me to a ready-made Javascript template that will do what I want? -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:44:12 -0700 From: Jerry Kyllo To: Donald Robert Dover , wsu-macusers-list@listproc.wsu.edu Subject: Q: Video capture framing problem This sounds like some equipment in the video chain is receiving video from one source but is gen-locking to something else. We see it quite often on a tape machine in record mode where the TBC is locked up to the genlock input instead of the incoming video. Monitors with external genlock may often look that way as well. You may not have a poor genlock source but a difference in cable lengths or passing video through various equipment may delay the video enough to produce this. You may want to make sure that there are no loops of cabling through your equipment and back into it some other way, especially if there is a "sync or Genlock" input in any of your equipment. I would check the codec first to make sure that it is connected correctly. Next I would look through the manual to find out if there are any menus for synchronization. >Paul Brians wrote: > > > I'm trying to get started using iMovie to capture clips from a > > videotape. For playback I'm using a JVC HR-S7900U playing through a > > Sony DV Hardware Codec Converter to a G4. For some reason a narrow > > band of the image which should be displayed at the top of the frame > > is showing up at the bottom instead. In a movie projector I'd call > > this a framing problem. > > > > I've tried using the JVC's control to adjust the tracking, but it > > doesn't help; I don't think it's a tracking problem. The original > > tapes played back onto a regular TV monitor play fine, no framing > > problem. > > > > I don't see any controls on the Sony unit, or anything in iMovie that > > would help me fix the framing. Can anybody help? > > -- > > Paul Brians, Department of English > > Washington State University > > Pullman, WA 99164-5020 > > brians@wsu.edu > > http://www.wsu.edu/~brians Jerry Kyllo CBTE Broadcast Technician Supervisor, East Educational Telecommunications and Technologies Northwest Public Radio and TV Washington State University Murrow Communication Center Pullman, WA 99164-2530 509-335-6531 WA7WAD ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:11:40 -0700 From: Donald Robert Dover To: wsu-macusers-list@listproc.wsu.edu Subject: Q: Video capture framing problem You are describing a phenomena that I know of as "head switching." It's "normal" to see this from lower end (read "non-broadcast") videotape machines using helical scanning. Normally, this would not be seen by viewers because part of the signal is hidden on a standard NTSC television set (overscanning). When you are capturing the signal you are capturing the WHOLE signal, and you are viewing the WHOLE picture because it is being displayed "underscanned," presumably in a window on your computer display. Broadcasters have found some workarounds to hide the head switching that involves modifying the electronics inside the VCR. If you are interested in voiding the warranty on your machine, I could probably refer you to some broadcast engineers. There may be a software solution, but I am unaware what it would be. However, this may not really be a problem for you. If you always plan on displaying your edited projects on standard NTSC television displays that overscan the image, your viewers will never see the flaw. If you are displaying on underscanned displays, your viewers will see the flaw. Of course, you could always use a different grade of tape machine that doesn't cause the head switching flaw to be displayed. Anyone else have any ideas?? -- THX, DON Donald Robert Dover / Network Operations Director Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System E-mail: dover@wsu.edu / Phone: 509-335-6534 / Fax: 509-335-6532 Edward R Murrow Communications Center, Room 363 PO Box 642530, Pullman, WA 99164-2530 Web site: http://www.ett.wsu.edu/WHETS Paul Brians wrote: > I'm trying to get started using iMovie to capture clips from a > videotape. For playback I'm using a JVC HR-S7900U playing through a > Sony DV Hardware Codec Converter to a G4. For some reason a narrow > band of the image which should be displayed at the top of the frame > is showing up at the bottom instead. In a movie projector I'd call > this a framing problem. > > I've tried using the JVC's control to adjust the tracking, but it > doesn't help; I don't think it's a tracking problem. The original > tapes played back onto a regular TV monitor play fine, no framing > problem. > > I don't see any controls on the Sony unit, or anything in iMovie that > would help me fix the framing. Can anybody help? > -- > Paul Brians, Department of English > Washington State University > Pullman, WA 99164-5020 > brians@wsu.edu > http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:42:04 -0700 From: Paul Brians To: wsu-macusers-list@listproc.wsu.edu, digest@info-mac.org Subject: Q: Video capture framing problem I'm trying to get started using iMovie to capture clips from a videotape. For playback I'm using a JVC HR-S7900U playing through a Sony DV Hardware Codec Converter to a G4. For some reason a narrow band of the image which should be displayed at the top of the frame is showing up at the bottom instead. In a movie projector I'd call this a framing problem. I've tried using the JVC's control to adjust the tracking, but it doesn't help; I don't think it's a tracking problem. The original tapes played back onto a regular TV monitor play fine, no framing problem. I don't see any controls on the Sony unit, or anything in iMovie that would help me fix the framing. Can anybody help? -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:21:59 +0100 From: Ezra Nathan To: Info-Mac digest Subject: wanted printer driver Hello> I am looking for a driver for my Epson stylus color 800. I am running OS9 on a PowerMac. What is the name of the driver and where can I download it from? Thanks, > Ezra -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************