Comments on: Chinese Lute

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:55:17 +0000

Hi Vix, thanks for commenting. I’d love to be able to convert movies from the DV cam into quicktime but I just don’t have all the connecting pieces to do it yet. I think I need Media Cleaner Pro, but that’s not cheap. Or to be able to extract audio from Mpeg and then add it back into a mov. Meanwhile if you really want to hear it you can do so by downloading :cough: windows media player for Mac – http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:41:12 +0000

Glad you like the virtual Lute, Gina. You can mark it instead of the action research project if you like

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:16:52 +0000

Wow-just played it virtually-now that is fun!

By: Gina

Gina — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:14:21 +0000

Wonderful-I heard it fine. Of course it’s not as sophisticated as my ukelele….

By: Les

Les — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:32:53 +0000

Thanks for the comment on my last post. If play is related to length of childhood what about mice, they play and ive for 3 years or so. WHat about tortoises they live long but I do not think they play.

I think the lute is great, I must get my head round this video mlarkey I am going to be teaching children how to do video soon…maybe they will teach me.

By: Macaverty

Macaverty — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:27:49 +0000

“grateful help from a willing assistant?” Why was your mystery assistant grateful I wonder? A nice plate of fish afterwards perhaps?

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:34:38 +0000

Hmm… a willing assistant… Barney???

Would iTunes be of any help? http://www.apple.com/itunes/jukebox.html

Nice to hear the chinese lute again, by the way

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:09:57 +0000

Hiya frankie, unfortunately renaming extensions isn’t quite enough. The file is encoded not just as mpeg4 but also as asf which seems to be specific to windows media player. There is a version for Mac os X which can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx

The camera work, hmm, yes. I sort of rehearsed it and then operated by remote control with grateful help from a willing assistant.

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:44:25 +0000

There must be a mac application that can play mpeg videos. try renaming extension to .mpeg

I like the video – who did the camera work?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:31:39 +0000

There’s no obvious application for playing .asf movies on the Mac. So I’ve copied the 80Mb mpeg file off my pen drive and that plays OK in Quicktimeplayer but it won’t import into iMovie. Next step is to connect the camcorder to the mac and try to capture direct from the DV tape into iMovie, then I may be able to export in the preferred quicktime mov format.

By: L

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:05:16 +0000

sadly the smart filter refused to let me play it at work:( L