MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

The MacMost Question and Answer Forum is a place where you can ask how-to questions about your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other Apple products. MacMost specializes in tutorials, tips and techniques of the “how-to” variety, as opposed to “fix-it” questions that are more about something not working as expected.


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9/12/11
Hi, I just bought a new video camera (canon hf m40)which is an HD camcoerder. After recording some video and putting it in IMOVIE creating a project sharing it to IDVD tring to burn a DVD It said that it has to much data to create a DVD. I recorded it at 30f/s at MXP (24Mbps) 1 ... (10 Comments)
9/12/11
Will iwork.com still be a service after iCloud comes out, or will iCloud take over the service of iWork.com? Also, if it does, will iCloud do the same functions as iWork.com (e.g. One click upload, easy sharing, etc)? —– matt ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
I’ve inserted 2 pictures from my iPhoto library into the project library timeline in iMovie ’09, but iMovie won’t play or export the images. One of them will show up in preview, but it also shows up for the second image I’ve inserted as well. It’s ... (6 Comments)
9/12/11
how do i get images with a transparent background into imovie? it wont accept .eps —– bill tatar ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
Gary is it possible to create multiple slideshow effects like oragami, scrap book, classic, shatter etc in One slideshow and create that into movie ? I’ve only known that one effect for one slideshow is possible. Just want to know if there is a quick Way of using many. The ... (3 Comments)
9/12/11
I notice sometimes that the screen enlarges. But I don’t know what I am doing to make it happen?? It is something I’d like to use but like I say, I am doing something and I don’t know what? —– Larry Reynolds ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
I just realized that I should have opened a new question instead of using the same heading before.I have watching your videos on different things and notice that you refer to hard drive level and user folders when explaining how to uninstall.Where would I find these please?I ... (3 Comments)
9/12/11
Dear Gary, Many thanks for the great tips and explanations you give. My question is will we still need to back up to Time Macine when we get iCloud? —– Bob Hodgson ... (1 Comment)
9/12/11
Hi Gary, I am a professional photographer who uses an express card 34 devise to upload my photos ( from CF card). My ol’ PC would auto upload all of the images once the EXPressCD 34 was inserted. Does my Macbook Pro ( march 2011) have a preference that does this? If not is ... (1 Comment)
9/11/11
Gary, I have been using Mail to receive my gmail and hotmail with no problems. In the last couple of days, hotmail was greyed out on Mail and would not “get mail”. Gmail is fine. I was able to open hotmail with Safari in the usual manner. I checked my ... (3 Comments)
9/11/11
Hi I’m making a sports highlight video and I want to highlight a player at the beginning of each clip. How is this done? —– Perry Wilson ... (1 Comment)
9/11/11
I have a MbP that is giving me fits. It says I have only 80 Gb of space left on a 250 HD but when I run Disk Inventory X it shows only 46 used. Any idea on how to find the missing space? —– Jason ... (7 Comments)
9/11/11
I have been quite annoyed with all the cables floating around in my room. Connecting them, on and off and so forth and it looks quite untidy. I have a black macbook, that I bring with me to school everyday. I was wondering if there are some ideas for this lovely problem, so I ... (3 Comments)
9/11/11
What do I do after I have verified my apple ID. I tried to sign in but u need a credit card and I dont have one and it doesn’t give me an option of nOne. I don’t knOw what to do. —– Jennifer ... (1 Comment)
9/10/11
I have an mov files that I’ve imported to Imovie 09. But after import, the picture quality is severely reduced, in the viewer window itself. So my best exports will not be good enough because there seems to be some quality loss during the import itself. Do you know if I can ... (1 Comment)
9/9/11
Is it possible to install multiple Airport Express devices in different parts of the house (each will have their own unique names and passwords)? Of course each would have USB speakers attached. If so, I would like to play a different iTunes play list on each via AirPlay. Is all ... (3 Comments)
9/9/11
I have 24 inch 2007 iMac with 10.7.1 and I have been using time machine to backup my Mac for several years. Recently (last 3 days) the icon for the Time Capsule, which is my backup drive, no longer ejects upon completion of the backup. How can I get the system to do this as it ... (2 Comments)
9/9/11
Gary love yourself spend a lot of time watching your videos have you on Facebook keep up the good work but I can find something I have an iPhone Mac Pro Mac error Mac mini and now I just got a Mac server address book is good between my I phone and my Mac Pro using iTunes to sink ... (3 Comments)
9/8/11
Hi all,I hope to puchase a Apple 21.5 MC812 over the next few days and it will be my first Mac after years on a PC.The local store is a good few miles away and when I came home,my wife had questions that I never thought to ask.Rather than drive all the way back to the store, I ... (13 Comments)
9/8/11
I have a Macbook Pro with iLife’09 and i recently bought a Macbook Air that came with iLife’11, being the owner of the two computers, how can i install iLife’11 on the Macbook Pro? I tried the usb drive that came with the Macbook Air but it didn’t work. I ... (6 Comments)