G'day Petraherz,Hi together,
i´m a member of cruxdreams and the short clips/videos are exciting. How can i get the full version of a serie? Is it necessary to mount all clips together with a Special Software Programm?
Thanks for a reply!
Hello Poem21045,I use MPEG Streamclip (from download at http://www.squared5.com/). Much videos can play on this program, and I can cut and paste and join different clips. It is free program.
If you want to convert AVI/MPG/MP4, MKV etc video clips to DVD and you're running Windows (yuk!) then the program you need is DVD Flick. It's completely free and can handle clips of different formats, as well as compiling simple menus.
You don't need to join clips before encoding as it's perfectly capable of joining them itself as it encodes, placing a chapter mark at the start of each clip.
In 99% of cases you will end up with a video_ts folder containing everything you need and by default it will compress on the fly (ie. during the encoding process) to fit a 4.3Gb DVDR. Occasionally, if you're trying to encode large projects, you may get a slight space overrun that will require you to run the finished product through DVD Shrink 3.2 to make sure it fits.
http://www.dvdflick.net/
As usual, all the very best software is completely free
For anyone still using Windows, this is just about the very best option as it's incredibly easy to use, supports almost every video codec on the planet and does pretty much everything for you automatically, including actually burning the disc as well if you wish.
Apache OpenOfficeHello Dark Princess 69,
From your "Windows (yuk!) comment above, I guess you may be a Mac user too. Wonderful. Thank you for your advice re GIMP and its capabilities; I'd never heard of it.
I've now downloaded/installed GIMP 2.8.10 and opened a Photoshop file containing layers with GIMP. Many of my files are PSE layered files via which means I can manipulate various files as required. The GIMP on screen presence seems impressive and seems to be adaptable. In PS Elements 8 ©2009, I have the 'Colour Swatches', 'Layers' and 'Effects' windows on the right of the main work window (tools icons vertical bar being on the left).
Hello Dark Princess 69,
From your "Windows (yuk!) comment above, I guess you may be a Mac user too. Wonderful. Thank you for your advice re GIMP and its capabilities; I'd never heard of it.
I've now downloaded/installed GIMP 2.8.10 and opened a Photoshop file containing layers with GIMP. Many of my files are PSE layered files via which means I can manipulate various files as required. The GIMP on screen presence seems impressive and seems to be adaptable. In PS Elements 8 ©2009, I have the 'Colour Swatches', 'Layers' and 'Effects' windows on the right of the main work window (tools icons vertical bar being on the left).
Can you suggest how I can get the layers and ,if possible, the effects dock able windows to display simultaneously in GIMP, please?
Warm regards, Ranger 1.
P.S. As your advice re free graphics software has been a boon to me and others here, perhaps I can return the favour by mentioning a free equivalent to Microsoft Office in its entirety. The free suite is Apache OpenOffice which has all the functionality and interoperability with MS .xls, .doc files etc. Further, there is a free online users forum which I've found to be courteous and helpful in the few queries I asked there. I hope this helps.
Yep that's a cool Office substitute, or you can use my own choice which is Libre Office (which, by the way, comes as standard with Linux Mint - as does GIMP, Firefox, Thunderbird and loads of other stuff that I used to use back in my Windows days)
Dear Dark Princess,Actually, I'm a Linux user (Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" - 64-bit Cinnamon Edition on my main PC and the 64-bit XFCE version on my netbook which doesn't quite have the power to run the Cinnamon Desktop smoothly)
Now if I'm understanding your question correctly, you want the layers dock and some other dockable window to be visible at the same time. This should be achievable as you can position the dockable toolboxes pretty much anywhere. By default, the layers and brushes toolboxes are combined on the right side of the screen but you should be able to move any docked toolbox by dragging its tab around.
For example, if you want the layers and channels to be visible at the same time, select the channels toolbox and drag it down on top of the brushes tab and it will relocate to the lower section of the right hand dock window. Now you can select Layers on the top section and still have the channels showing down the bottom.
In fact you can undock any of these tabs and place them anywhere on the screen, so you can totally customise your workspace even more flexibly than Photoshop allows you to do.
As with all things, a bit of experimentation will soon get you familiar with the way the GUI works.
As with all things open-source, there's an active user community out there and a bit of googling will get you any help you need, just as with Photoshop
Remember if you like it, spread the word - The more people using open-source software, the better
Yep that's a cool Office substitute, or you can use my own choice which is Libre Office (which, by the way, comes as standard with Linux Mint - as does GIMP, Firefox, Thunderbird and loads of other stuff that I used to use back in my Windows days)
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
There you go - no more expensive rolling subscriptions and/or cloud-based crap from Micro$hit...
The Princess sticks it to The Man !
Dear Dark Princess,
I apologise for my tardy expression of gratitude for your generous help with GIMP. I've reached the stage where I have the 'Tools' palette displayed to the left of the main window with the 'Layers' palette on the right with the 'Channels' palette below that. Now I need to familiarise myself with the GIMP program.
It is interesting to note that a free, open source, graphics program like GIMP will include a Channels facility but commercial Adobe Photoshop Elements will not. PSE will accommodate a free Channels plug in (Grant's Tools) - but the point remains.
It's comforting to find another Micro$hit (<<< I just love it!) detester out there. In this spirit, I include a photo taken at a Microsoft Convention somewhere, some years ago. Says it all, really!
Warm regards, Ranger 1.
i was a witness of one that oneI love the idea that Microsoft execs use Macbooks at their press conferences LOL