Video Preview Window
by st373n on Aug.19, 2009, under FilmRedux
The code for the video preview window is now operational and correctly plays video and audio for quicktime compatible files only. currently I have set it at 640 x 360. I may make this user resizable or perhaps match the values entered in the advanced settings panel.
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August 21st, 2009 on 6:21 pm
Hi,
I am a new user of a MacBook (intel) running Leopard and I have spent WEEKS trying to find some software that will take Video_TS files and compress and then burn them onto a DVD (single layer). FilmRedux looks as though it will do the business for me but I can’t get it to work. All the versions that I have found do not have the DVD output options enabled – they are all grayed out. The one “working” version I have found says it is Version 1pre and generates an error when I click Start. It says
“AppleScript Error
The variable exportfile is not defined. (-2753)”
Please PLEASE let me know when you have a copy which works on Leopard and which has the DVD options enabled??? I have spent weeks on this and am getting desperate. Even the trial versions of software which I tested prior to buying didn’t work!
Zed
August 21st, 2009 on 6:55 pm
Hi Zed,
The DVD output function in FilmRedux is not coded yet which is why all the options for it are greyed out, but it is something that is on the list of formats to be done.
Some alternatives that you may want to try – if you can find VisualHub which is what FilmRedux evolved from, although now discontinued its source code has also been released just yesterday as ReduxZero and may well do the job, although I have not tested this just yet.
A commercial product that can also do the trick is Roxio Toast, but it’s expensive and the quality of output in my opinion sucks.
There are many command line tools that will do the job also, and a good starting point for information on them is the mencoder / mplayer website
Also ffmpeg will do the job and a version with mac gui is available and called ffmpegx.
If its a commercial DVD9 that you want to shrink to SL DVD then you would need the likes of MacTheRipper or DVDBackup as those will remove macrovision and region coding
Thanks for your interest in the project here, and once I get round to coding that feature I will announce it here.
August 22nd, 2009 on 12:04 pm
Hello st373n,
Thanks for the extremely prompt reply! I have tried Toast (errored), ffmpegx (wouldn’t accept the input properly). I have basically given up on what is out there at the moment and would rather stick with your product. I liked the look and feel of your version. The options were good and would cover everything that I want and also it means that it would be a one-step process rather than the 3 or 4 step that I had got up to in desperation!
Keep up the good work and I look forward to trying your versions when DVD burning is available.
Cheers, Zed
PS: Prompt, polite, helpful replies are often hard to come by these days – so thank you again.
August 23rd, 2009 on 8:16 pm
Hi Zed,
Have started working on the DVD section now, the first revision of it is now up for download, its won’t – yet accept Video_TS as an input, but will convert a video file into a dvd iso.