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Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar David Fleetwood
On the Apple Support pages I see that to run QT7 you should be running Snow Leopard, which I don't have anymore, you can though still download QT7.

Euan has very kindly sent me iDVD so that is the next thing to try, phew!

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Tony Still
Eric, if QT7 will read it then use it to transcode (export) something that Toast can read, then proceed as originally planned.

QT7 still runs on OS X after Snow Leopard, at least it does on El Capitan here.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Eric Jervis
QT7 does open the .mov file but 10 of the options are prefixed 'pro' and greyed out, including 'export'.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Lionel Ogden
A handy file converter is MPEG Streamclip found at http://www.squared5.com

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Eric Jervis
I've had a look at it Lionel, but it talks about Streamclip components and other thingies, and I haven't got the nerve!

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Tony Still
Eric,

Sorry for the bad steer there. I bought the Pro licence for QT7 so long ago I'd forgotten about it. I don't know if Apple even still sells them, I think I paid about GBP15 for mine.

Has anyone suggested Handbrake yet? It's a very capable (and free) video format converter, though it's not the simplest beast to use.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Eric Jervis
HI tony, Yep. Digressing slightly, I had two goes at burning a particular MP4 file and toast crashed both times after wasting an unconscionable time. So I thought I'd have a go at another option toast was offering me, to burn a DIV X disc. This worked perfectly in a sense! It plays the video at an angle of 45 degrees, and as if viewed through a distorting mirror. Most peculiar.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Tony Still
So will propping your DVD player at the opposite 45 degree angle whilst playing the DIV X disc fix the problem?

;-)

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Mick Burrell
I bet you sent that without thinking Tony - clearly it would need to be the TV that you'd set at the opposite 45 degrees! Or of course leave the TV as is and screw your shoes to the floor so you can lean at 45 degrees without falling over.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Tony Still
Mick - propping the player imparts a quantum spin on the bits causing the TV to scan at an angle. I thought everyone knew that.

I can also sell you a green marker pen to colour the edges of your CDs to make them sound better.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Eric Jervis
Ho ho ho.......you are a pair of WAGS! (just returned to Angleterre)

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Lionel Ogden
Aha! it has been revealed, a cunning EU plot to make videos play at forty five degrees to use less energy.

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Eric Jervis
Boy, am I going to punish the bounders on June the 23rd!

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Tony Still
Eric,
Not sure who you're out to punish. A vote to leave will punish almost everyone as goods become more expensive* and taxes have to rise to sustain** government spending (the NHS, for example).

Please don't punish me - I'm so helpful :-)

*Because the Pound loses value
**The economy shrinks so %age taxes must increase to raise the same amount of money

Re: transferring VHS to DVD

Avatar Eric Jervis
‘Won’t you join our Common Market?’ said the spider to the fly,
‘It really is a winner and the cost is not too high’
‘I know De Gaulle said ’’ Non’’, but he hadn’t got a clue,
‘We want you in, my friends and I, for we have plans for you.
‘You’ll have to pay a little more than we do, just for now,
‘As Herr Kohl said, and I agree, we need a new milch cow,
‘It’s just a continental term, believe me , mon ami,
‘Like ‘’Vive la France’’ or ‘’Mad Anglais’’ or even ‘’E.E.C.’’.
‘As to the rules, don’t worry friend, there’s really but a few
‘You’ll find that we ignore them - but they all apply to you.
‘Give and share between us, that’s what it’s all about,
‘You do all the giving, and we all share it out.
‘It’s very British, is it not, to help a friend in need?
‘You’ve done it twice in two World Wars, a fact we must concede,
‘So climb aboard the Market Train, don’t sit there on the side,
‘Your continental cousins want to take you for a ride’
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