http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ Riverfold » Recent Posts en Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:37:35 +0000 http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=43#post-273 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:23:41 +0000 mebiel 273@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Haven't purchased Clipstart but having support for OpenMeta would push me over the edge </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=30#post-272 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:55:17 +0000 John.Corso 272@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>No problems importing from a Canon 5D MkII via a SanDisk CF card reader connected via FireWire 800. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-271 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:58:43 +0000 drcongo 271@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi Matt. There's a kind of work around to the problem you're having with losing the file creation date when using ClipWrap which is to batch rename your video files with the creation date prepended to the filename before you run them through ClipWrap. I use an app called Name Changer, available here...</p> <p><a href="http://web.mac.com/mickeyroberson/MRR_Software/NameChanger.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.mac.com/mickeyroberson/MRR_Software/NameChanger.html</a></p> <p>which gives me filenames like this: 2008-08-16 2016 - 00060.MTS</p> <p>The downside of this is that your ClipWrapped files will still have the new creation date (which strictly speaking is the correct behaviour for ClipWrap because it creates a new file), so any application you use to sort the video files is still going to be looking at that new creation date. </p> <p>However, on the plus side, renaming the actual video files like this will allow you to see at a glance the date any video was taken without having to view the metadata.</p> <p>Hope this fits your workflow and helps in some way. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=50#post-227 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:27:49 +0000 manton 227@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>To update this issue… Clipstart 1.3.1 now includes a separate checkbox for whether you want to copy videos to your library. This allows you to set an external drive for your library (and camera imports) but not force Clipstart to copy all videos there. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-226 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:00:40 +0000 mattjgerard 226@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for looking into it. I don't understand why they won't make that happen. Having the file creation date match the date that the clips was "wrapped" is completely USELESS!!! that's why there is a CREATION DATE and a MODIFIED DATE. </p> <p>Frustrating. They don't understand how this is limiting the usefullness of thier software. </p> <p>I'll email him back and see if I can rattle some trees. </p> <p>I appreciate your willingness to actually attempt to see if there is something to be done. They just said nope. </p> <p>This doesn't preclude me using your software, but I'm not sure how I'll integrate it yet. Let me know if you need anything else from me, and I'll post back if I hear anything from them. </p> <p>Matt </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-225 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:32:50 +0000 manton 225@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>I talked to one of the ClipWrap developers at Macworld this week. While it's unlikely they will change the behavior of dates in ClipWrap, I'm going to explore integrating support more closely into Clipstart for ClipWrap, to hopefully make it a smoother workflow. I need to do more testing before I commit to the feature, but I think there is a lot of potential there.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=43#post-224 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:29:11 +0000 manton 224@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Paul, thanks for the feedback. Absolutely it would be a preference if I support OpenMeta. Everyone has a slightly different way they want tags to interact with other applications, so I want to be very careful how I implement it.</p> <p>To be honest this feature is not scheduled for any specific future Clipstart release yet, just because I've heard so many conflicting ideas from customers about how it should work. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=46#post-223 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:00:39 +0000 paulw 223@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Agreed--- I think the ability to pick your frame for the thumbnail would be great-- even by batch processing, too (e.g., specify a thumbnail from a frame at n % or secs of each movie) </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=43#post-222 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:44:17 +0000 paulw 222@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>OpenMeta compatibility sounds like a good idea, but I think only as an OPTIONAL function. Having many, if not dozens, of tags that are only relevant to movies might be more clutter than anything else if they started showing up in Leap, etc.</p> <p>Paul </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=52#post-221 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:07:15 +0000 gkh 221@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>I just noticed. Preference heaven! </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=52#post-220 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:03:53 +0000 manton 220@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>By the way, I did add a preference for this in Clipstart 1.3 (released yesterday), so even if you don't want Clipstart to manage your library you can still set it to rename files for you. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=61#post-219 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:56:57 +0000 manton 219@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi Ken. I responded to your email yesterday, suggesting that you may need to use the Locations tab in Wii Transfer's preferences window to tell Wii Transfer where your music is stored on the external hard drive. Let me know if it still doesn't work, either here or over email.</p> <p>I hope to improve the warnings in this case for a future version, since it can be pretty confusing why it's not working.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=61#post-218 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:45:00 +0000 kenlnyc 218@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Just purchased a copy of this software.<br /> I installed it and got it working up until I open the music folder..<br /> Any mp3 I click It opens, shows the cover art but doesnt play.<br /> Any AAC file I click starts to load and then gives me an error message to check the file in in itunes</p> <p>Im using Snow Leopard 10,6.2<br /> Itunes 9<br /> and Wii Transfer 2.7.1<br /> all of my media is on an external </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-217 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:33:22 +0000 mattjgerard 217@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>THis is what I got from the ClipWrap people. Not encouraging, at least he could have said that this is something that could be looked into, but didn't seem interested in it. </p> <p>"Matt,</p> <p>In the course of rewrapping, we are only concerned with moving the video and audio data form the transport stream into a suitable QT wrapper. We parser timecode, but all other metadata (most of which resides in the stream and not the video/audio) will be lost. </p> <p>Sorry for the bad news.</p> <p>mike"</p> <p>I'll look into #3 and #4 more in a little bit. i haven't had much time to play with it. But, I will get back to you. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=59#post-216 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:46:34 +0000 tgbrown1687 216@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Im using Mac OS X Snow Leopard I double check Firewall settings is allowing also tried turning off firewall used safari to test wii transfer worked fine just cant get wii console to connect I can go to the internet with the console. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=59#post-215 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:21:20 +0000 tgbrown1687 215@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Does this version work in demo or will i need to buy a license first my Mii will transfer but the wii console wont connect to the wii transfer </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=57#post-214 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:59:49 +0000 mikailborg 214@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>They are Alphabetical in the Wii interface, thank goodness, but I can't seem to sort them in the Mac interface. I am deleting movies as we watch, and it does help, but it would be a minor convenience if I could sort them on the Mac end.</p> <p>"Date" and "Unwatched" are great ideas too!</p> <p>Thanks for the great software. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-213 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:14:00 +0000 manton 213@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the feedback. Good points. Do you feel like Clipstart handles 3 and 4 well? If not, I'd love to hear what could be improved.</p> <p>Also, let me know what the ClipWrap guys say about the file modification dates. Do they keep the creation date the same? (Clipstart only uses the mod date to be consistent throughout the app, but it does have a batch date changing feature if you need it.) </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=30#post-212 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:25:39 +0000 reymarkacain 212@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>I think you need to download a driver for your digital camera. if the computer cannot recognize your device when you try to connect it using your USB data cable.<br /> or visited these site for more information <a href="http://dslr-review.org/" rel="nofollow">http://dslr-review.org/</a> </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-210 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:17:16 +0000 mattjgerard 210@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.creativeftp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.creativeftp.com</a><br /> then login in with this info-</p> <p>Username- clipstart<br /> PW- video</p> <p>One mts clip and one processed with clipwrap. </p> <p>Let me know what you think. I was looking at AtomicView, but taht seems just a little too over the top for me. This is a list of priorities that I am looking for in software like yours. </p> <p>1) Import and ingest from my camera. (none do this, but it would be nice. I am willing to use 2 programs ie. Clipwrap AND Clipstart to achieve this)<br /> 2) Group by date when the video was shot. Clipwrap ignores the shot date, and uses the file attributes of when Clipwrap processes the files. I am talking to them about that. Whats the point if I can't see when the video was shot?!?!<br /> 3) Quickly rename video files, in a batch renaming fashion.<br /> 4) Tag video files with subjects, locations, event. Tag multiple files at once.<br /> 5) Start a new "library" every 3 months, so the library doesn't get too huge. Main caveat of iMovie. database gets soo huge it takes forever to load and search.<br /> 6) Global search of all libraries of tags. ie search for "Johnny" in all libraries, or all open libraries.</p> <p>Take a look at JetPhotosoft.com. I use them for still photo organization, and I really like the way it works. </p> <p>Thanks! and let me know if you need anymore feedback or ideas. </p> <p>Matt </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=59#post-209 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:09:10 +0000 manton 209@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi everyone. There was a new issue in Wii Transfer 2.7 that would cause the application to hang on Mac OS X 10.4. I'm making available a beta with the fix here, and expect to wrap up testing and release the final version in a couple of days.</p> <p><a href="http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/downloads/Wii_Transfer_2.7.1b1.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/downloads/Wii_Transfer_2.7.1b1.zip</a></p> <p>Please respond here or email support if you experience any problems with this beta of the application. Thanks! </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=57#post-208 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:15:57 +0000 manton 208@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the feedback! Glad to hear you like it so far.</p> <p>The movies should be sorted alphabetically. If not, let me know. I plan to add more options such as sorting by date and unwatched, since I realize the list gets unmanageable pretty quickly. After you are done with a movie, you may want to just remove it from Wii Transfer by selecting it in the Movies pane on your Mac and pressing the delete button.</p> <p>Let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=56#post-207 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:13:07 +0000 manton 207@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi, sorry to hear you are running into a problem with this. It sounds like Wii Transfer is finding your old library and trying to resolve the address of the Windows share. You can tell Wii Transfer where the real iTunes library is by setting it in the preferences window under the locations tab.</p> <p>I hope this helps. Let me know if it's still not working. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=55#post-206 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:11:00 +0000 manton 206@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi Shogo,</p> <p>No, unfortunately Wii Transfer can't support protected movies from the iTunes Store. Apple does not allow those to be played in any application except iTunes and QuickTime Player. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=54#post-205 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:09:42 +0000 manton 205@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi, thanks for the feedback. (Sorry it took so long for me to respond -- looks like my RSS feed for new questions wasn't being updated.) I'm tracking a new bug in 2.7 that may be what you're seeing. It shouldn't hang the app at all while streaming.</p> <p>Not saving the quality setting is also a known issue that should be fixed very soon. In the meantime I'd suggest always setting it if you are using a custom setting before you convert. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-204 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:18:48 +0000 manton 204@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi Matt,</p> <p>I'd definitely like to see a movie processed with ClipWrap. Can you post the URL to download or email it to <a href="mailto:support@riverfold.com">support@riverfold.com</a>? I don't know enough about what ClipWrap does yet to know if it's a minor bug that can be fixed in Clipstart or if it's just not compatible, like MTS.</p> <p>Clipstart will also ignore .mts extensions when it imports an entire folder, so you may want to try renaming it to .mov and see if that makes a difference. There will be better support for configuring this in the next version of Clipstart.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=58#post-203 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:45:48 +0000 mattjgerard 203@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.clipwrap.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.clipwrap.com/</a></p> <p>I have a sony HDR-XR520V camcorder, and have been looking (diligenlty) for a way to organize the slew of home videos. I've been looking at ClipWrap as a quick way to convert or rewrap the MTS files from the camera. Seems to work for FCP and Quicktime, but I jsut did a test with Clipstart, and clipstart doesn't seem to recognize the file as a movie. </p> <p>Any Suggestions? I can post a movie that is an .mts from the camera and the same movie processed through Clipwrap for you to play with if you want. </p> <p>I hate iMovie with its bloated interface and slow performance. I am a daily FCP user. It looks like your software has a lot of potential for what I am looking for in being able to easily and quickly organzie the thousands of video files I will be creating int he future. </p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Matt </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=57#post-202 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:47:16 +0000 mikailborg 202@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Wii transfer is doing exactly what it advertised, and I'm loving it. However, I've just added a fistful of movies to it, and they imported in a pretty random order. Is there any way to sort the listing?</p> <p>Thank you much for saving me money on another media center computer! </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=56#post-201 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:44:16 +0000 Shogododo 201@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi Manton,</p> <p>I am receiving a warning dialog when launching WiiTransfer: -</p> <p>Connection failed<br /> The server "xyz" may not exist or it is unavailable at this time.<br /> Check the server name or IP address, check your network<br /> connection, and then try again.</p> <p>This appears twice (which I have to clear with OK button click).</p> <p>After that the application works normally and finds iTunes.</p> <p>Here's the story ... I have iTunes library stored on an external hard disk attached to my Time Machine.<br /> Previously the iTunes library was located on a Windows XT share on server "xyz" - This server was de-comissioned 18 months ago.</p> <p>My question is - what are you calling to find and to connect with iTunes ? and what configure files may be associated with this determination route ?<br /> I believe it might be a plist or xml file that has to be edited to remove this annoyance.<br /> But for the life of me I cant find any associate key value pair in any file that points to server "xyz" on my MacBook.</p> <p>P.S.<br /> Network Connections does not have a visible entry for this server anywhere.</p> <p>Ian </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=55#post-200 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:33:07 +0000 Shogododo 200@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi Manton,</p> <p>Does WiiTransfer support Protected meg4 format for moveis purchased in iTunes ?</p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Shogo </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=54#post-199 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:55:20 +0000 s_evans 199@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Is it normal for Wii Transfer to beachball while streaming? I tried version 2.7 and was streaming a single song when I attempted to add a new movie into Wii Transfer but the application wasn't responding (the spinning beachball and the Dock said it was not responding) until the song finished. I am running it on a G5 Quad with 4GB memory so I hardly think that would be much of a drain on the Mac's CPU (even if it was encoding the video since ffmpeg was only using a single core)</p> <p>Also I noticed it doesn't save the Quality setting. I changed Custom from 700 to 1500 but after the first movie was converted I went back into the Prefs and it reverted to 700. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=53#post-198 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:45:59 +0000 manton 198@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>I've released Wii Transfer 2.7, and it's available on the web site or by choosing Check for Updates from the Wii Transfer menu inside any older version of the app. There are a number of fixes since the beta. Thanks everyone who sent me feedback over email. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=42#post-197 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:24:13 +0000 manton 197@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for your patience. I still don't know why this is happening, but I am updating how Flash is detected for the next version, so hopefully that will work around these remaining issues with the screens not loading. I'll post an update here when I think it's ready.</p> <p>As for the SD card conversion, I recently made the difficult decision to remove that feature from Wii Transfer. The Wii's photo channel just isn't reliable enough, especially with large files. For movies of any significant length I think video streaming is going to be a better and more convenient option for most people. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=53#post-196 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:17:13 +0000 manton 196@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>The next Wii Transfer update, version 2.7, isn't quite ready, but I wanted to make available an early beta. There are some minor improvements and bug fixes (and more coming), as well as a change to the movie conversion settings for smoother video playback. If you've ever had an issue with pauses or re-buffering while watching a movie through Wii Transfer, I'd love to hear how this version works for you. (You'll need to reconvert any existing movies already loaded in Wii Transfer.)</p> <p>You can download the beta here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/downloads/Wii_Transfer_2.7b1.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.riverfold.com/software/wiitransfer/downloads/Wii_Transfer_2.7b1.zip</a></p> <p>The next one or two betas after this will fill in the remaining pieces for version 2.7. You can auto-update to the latest version by choosing Check for Updates from the Wii Transfer menu.</p> <p>Thanks! If you have any feedback, please send an email to <a href="mailto:support@riverfold.com">support@riverfold.com</a> or post here. </p> http://www.riverfold.com/forums/topic.php?id=52#post-195 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:21:44 +0000 manton 195@http://www.riverfold.com/forums/ <p>Small world indeed! That's great.</p> <p>And thanks for the extra details about how you're using the app. </p>