Quicktime X into Final Cut Pro errors

If you’ve made a screen record­ing using Quick­time X, you’ll likely have dif­fi­culty import­ing it into Final Cut Pro 7 because of its vari­able framerate.

The eas­i­est way to resolve this is to take the file through Com­pres­sor first — ProRes 422 Pro­gres­sive will be great. Frus­trat­ing, but whatever.

# by Josh on June 10th, 2011 Tags: , , ,
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All existing apps and their data on the iPhone will be replaced with apps from this iTunes library.

Or will it?

If you’re set­ting up a new com­puter and have Autho­rized This Com­puter (Store -> Autho­rize This Com­puter) already, it seems weird that iTunes won’t let you just sync your apps from the device.

For what­ever rea­son, you ALSO need to “Trans­fer Pur­chases from” the iPhone or iPod in ques­tion. Crazy huh? Nev­er­the­less, it’s actu­ally pretty straightforward.

Transfer Purchases from iPhone menu

# by Josh on March 30th, 2011 Tags: , , , , , ,
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Unable to Purchase error in iPhone App Store

Just got an “Unable to Pur­chase” error while updat­ing a bunch of dif­fer­ent apps on my iPhone using the App Store.

It didn’t affect the actual upgrade, but the error appeared twice before I entered my iTunes pass­word — after a quick search it seems the prob­lem is related to changed sys­tem times. I hadn’t attempted an update since before day­light sav­ings started here three days ago, so I’m assum­ing that is the reason.

For me, this didn’t actu­ally pre­vent any­thing from work­ing — but leave a com­ment if you’ve had more spe­cific prob­lems. If time related, it’s a curi­ous lim­i­ta­tion on the app store indeed (app rental?). More likely it’s just some bor­ing trans­ac­tional code play­ing up, but who knows…

# by Josh on October 5th, 2010 Tags: , , , ,
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Apple.com my way

Apple.com featuring Final Cut Studio, new Adobe CS3 for Intel, and Apple TV

It’s almost as if they were solely try­ing to con­vert me (well, you know, and every other media geek on the planet). FCS2, CS3, and a lounge-room media cen­tre all in pride of place. Perfect.

Steve Jobs on DRM

Steve Jobs writes some thoughts on the state of dig­i­tal music which cause me to smile quite a lot. Maybe it’s time to down­load iTunes afterall.

# by Josh on February 7th, 2007 Tags: , , , , ,
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