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Adobe Encore : Author a Standard DVD to auto play & loop playback

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2 weeks ago
by Peter Moore in

Using Adobe Encore to Author a DVD

1] Open a new project and add a new timeline: Timeline -> New Timeline

2] Import your video: File -> Import As -> asset…

3] Drag your imported video asset(s) to the timeline (you can find your asset in the ‘project’ tab of the top-left positioned main 4 panels)

4] In the menu tab, create a new menu, set the ‘title remote’ to ‘chapter 1′, set the ’title button’ to chapter 1.

4] To make your DVD repeat on a loop, in the ‘properties’ tab, set the end action to play chapter 1.

5] In the ‘Build’ tab, use the ‘Check Project’ button to check your project for errors. Correct any errors before building.

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Import Video Settings for Samsung VP-MX20 Camcorder

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2 weeks ago
by Peter Moore in

Found this camcorder that I got for my 30th birthday in a draw upstairs and thought I’d post the import video settings on here in case anybody had the same trouble as me when I first got the camcorder.

The main problem with the VP-MX20 is that Samsung seem to have fudged the meta data in their codec, the 16:9 video this camera records should play at 720 x 480, but instead plays at 720 x 405.  I had hours of fun trying to work out why my video’s aspect ratio was wrong even when I’d set the correct pixel aspect ratio for the source footage (1.0940) in my sequence settings in Premier.

After a bit of digging, I found the following Adobe Premier settings to be correct for the video that the camera shoots…

Choose a HDV sequence preset: 720p25, then in the general tab, switch the editing mode to ‘desktop’ to give you full control over your program’s settings.

 

 

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Use a USB pen to install Windows 7 on a Netbook or Laptop without a CD / DVD drive

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11 months ago
by Peter Moore in ,

Handy for when you replace you hard disk in your netbook or Laptop and rather than cloning your old driveyou simply want a fresh install of windows. You’ll obviously need to get yourself a copy of Windows 7, either on a DVD or an ISO of the setup files and a 4GB or 8GB USB pen drive. We’re going to wipe the pen drive (or at least flag the data for deletion), create a primary partition, format the drive, mount the pen drive before copying across our windows 7 set-up files from a DVD.

1// open start > type ‘diskpart‘ > execute diskpart.exe > click ‘yes’ to the User account control window prompt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2// When diskpart is running in cmd window, type ‘list disk‘ >

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3// Identify the your USB drive by the size of the disk – in this case it’s a 4GB (3700MB) drive – and type ‘select disk #‘ (where # is the number of your disk – in my case it was disk 6). Type ‘clean’ and press enter.

4// Type ‘create partition primary‘ and press enter. Type ‘active‘ and press enter. Type ‘format fs=fat32 quick’ or if the USB key is over 4GB type ‘format fs=ntfs quick‘

5// Type ‘assign‘ and windows will map a drive letter to the drive. Click ‘Open folder to view files and copy your windows set-up files across from your DVD to your USB drive. Use your USB pen to install your copy of windows to your netbook.

 

 

Create a URL button in flash AS3

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1 year ago
by Peter Moore in ,

If you need a banner to have a button that when clicked takes you to another webpage when you click the flash button this is how you do it. You need to create a button (in this case a transparent rectangle on top of a web banner animation), add an event listener(a mouse event/click) and create a function (in this case the function is to request a URL and navigate to it).

1/ Press F8 to convert a rectangle into a symbol, create button and name it myButton.
2/ Click on the button in the main timeline and press F9 to open the actions window.
3/ Use this code to create an event listener and a function for after the click event.
You can use…
“_blank” or “top” to open in a new tab
“_parent” or “_self” open in the same tab



myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myButtonFunction);

function myButtonFunction(event: MouseEvent) {

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.pmlmedia.co.uk");

navigateToURL(request, "_self");

}

List-o-matic! & htmldog

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2 years ago
by Peter Moore in

If (like me) you need a crash course in CSS and HTML styles then this list-o-matic site is a good place for the beginner to start training in building a css navigation or even a whole standards-compliant website.

Found this HTML Dog Website good as well with information about all of the valid tags belonging to the latest version of strict XHTML. boooyaaaa

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