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Creative Projects / Cropping a .mov, need help

« on: September 04, 2012, 11:09:41 pm »

I've been running a virtual tabletop game with some friends of mine for awhile now, and just recently figured out how easy it is to record the screen with Quicktime. I've got the thing saved but now I want to trim it down to exclude the area I was keeping my GM notes in and some other information my players don't need to see. I have no idea how to go about this and I'm not keen on spending money for it. It seems like it should be fairly easy to do, but I can't find an obvious means or utility.

I'm on a Mac running OS10.6.8 and would greatly appreciate assistance.

EDIT for clarity: I just want to remove a constant area of the screen from the recording, reduce the display area and discard what was there while keeping everything else constant.

Life Advice / Need a chat client

« on: May 12, 2011, 09:54:49 pm »

My friend and I are attempting to coordinate on a coding project but he is stuck using a school computer while I am operating at home. As such we need a chat client that meets the following standards
-It cannot require an installation. His student account lacks that privilege.
-It must be able to support closed, private conversations.
-It cannot be a part of the Google social suite. That is blocked.
-PC/Mac friendliness is preferred, but not wholly necessary. PC friendliness is necessary.
I appreciate your help in this matter.

Curses / Massive heat generation

« on: January 12, 2010, 10:13:05 pm »

I'm playing my first new game on 4.01.4 and my founder seems to have turned into some kind of fireball for reasons I do not entirely understand. This guy is generating about 200 heat per day in a 95% secrecy safehouse! I'm beginning to think that he must have become the Riddler and that this is all a result of him leaving thinly veiled clues to his whereabouts on the police commissioner's desk each morning. He hasn't been especially active of late (searching opinion polls mainly), but I recently published some documents he obtained a few months ago. The safehouse with the active printing press has no heat on it at all, even though it's fairly crowded and has multiple illicit operation going on inside it. My best guess is the the documents are solely associated with him (he was the only liberal on that mission) and that publishing them has some how caused the game to make him generate heat because of that association.

From my experience with earlier versions I know that publishing documents causes large amounts of heat to generate, but that had always seemed to be focused upon the location of my press and was never this intense. Am I doing something wrong, or is this really a bug?

EDIT:
As an experiment I deliberately caused him to be arrested and his crimes are as follows:
9 counts of kidnapping
4 counts of distribution of a controlled substance
2 counts of aiding a prison escape
265 counts of felony assault
462 counts of murder
10 counts of theft
15 counts of breaking and entering
26 counts of vandalism
resisting arrest
9 counts of disturbing the peace

Rather unsurprisingly, he was convicted and received a "lenient" sentence of 5 consecutive life terms in prison thanks to my sleeper judge and ace attorney (under moderate death penalty laws). After reviewing his record I am not surprised that he generates so much heat, but he did not start doing so earlier.

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Invaded by... unicorns?

« on: December 15, 2009, 01:23:27 am »

I was happily playing my fort when I received my annual notice that an ambush party had been spotted (I've been at war with the elves since worldgen) and when I took a look, all 16 invaders were unicorns. I have not modded my game at all (don't even use d#), so it strikes me as odd that I am apparently being invaded by a benign, nonsapient species. The wiki says that elves will sometimes attack while riding unicorns, but I don't see any actual elves in the unit listing. Has this happened to anyone else? Have I finally killed every elf in this world or am I just not viewing riders properly? I'm probably just going to let them charge my cage traps and see if I can tame invader unicorns... or maybe just throw them into a deep hole and make a suit out of their skin. Probably both.

EDIT:
A second ambush alert was triggered as I brought the military in to deal with this unicorn invasion that caused the riders to appear properly. This only happened after one of my marksdwarves managed to kill a unicorn. Odd.

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood / Mac Version?

« on: October 12, 2009, 03:16:29 pm »

As a relatively new DF player I am interested in plating it's poor, broken predecessor but ran into a bit of a snag. It seems that the Toady One did not see fit to make his game Mac-friendly and I was wondering if anyone knew were and if such a version may be found. I thank you for your assistance in this matter.