On a desktop Mac, option-(sound up or sound down) will bring up the Sound Preferences. I've forgotten where I learned this, perhaps MacWorld or MacAddict, a couple of years ago.

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On a desktop Mac, option-(sound up or sound down) will bring up the Sound Preferences. I've forgotten where I learned this, perhaps MacWorld or MacAddict, a couple of years ago.

Love your show. I am new to the Macworld since October 2006. No turning back. However I use the following for my DVD camcorder:


1. DVDxDV.

This software program converts my video from The DVD to give the correct frame rate and to an accurate .DV file. The problem with using programs like ffmpeg and Quicken is that sometimes you will not get the sound channel and you will have only video but no sound. Additionally, Quicken has this nasty problem of interlacing the video, so that contrasting images of dark and light will have fine horizontal lines going across. These carry over to the DV file and eventually to the DVD that you are creating.

I was going to buy another camera until I found this program. Incidentally, this is the same program used by PBS FRONTLINE in their documentary series, "The Storm" about Hurricane Katrina.

Well worth the $25 for the basic program. $80 if you want to do fancy stuff with audio. There is a 30 day trial of the program also available.

http://www.dvdxdv.com/

Love your show and thanks for all of the information that you provide.


CA.

...obviously not Quicken....it should be Quicktime.....

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Guest wrote:
Love your show. I am new to the Macworld since October 2006. No turning back. However I use the following for my DVD camcorder:


1. DVDxDV.

This software program converts my video from The DVD to give the correct frame rate and to an accurate .DV file. The problem with using programs like ffmpeg and Quicken is that sometimes you will not get the sound channel and you will have only video but no sound. Additionally, Quicken has this nasty problem of interlacing the video, so that contrasting images of dark and light will have fine horizontal lines going across. These carry over to the DV file and eventually to the DVD that you are creating.

I was going to buy another camera until I found this program. Incidentally, this is the same program used by PBS FRONTLINE in their documentary series, "The Storm" about Hurricane Katrina.

Well worth the $25 for the basic program. $80 if you want to do fancy stuff with audio. There is a 30 day trial of the program also available.

http://www.dvdxdv.com/

Love your show and thanks for all of the information that you provide.


CA.

The shortcuts are option+ feature, where 'feature' is volume (up, down or mute) or brightness. On a laptop, you press the function key labeled with that function (F1 through F5), and on a desktop (or keyboard attached to a laptop), you press option + the dedicated sound keys for sound preferences. For display preferences, press option + F14 or option + F15 (same as brightness keys on a laptop - not sure why these aren't labeled with the brightness icons).

Alt-(keys alongtop of keypad) does this for desktop. Note there is no keypad on a laptop.