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From: Vincent Young
Date: Sep 21, 2011 3:54PM

Sharon,

Can you confirm that you DID mail to the magpie list? If you didn't, the
email is <EMAIL REMOVED> .

-V

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Terzian, Sharon < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi, I've been on this listserv for years and though I haven't posted, I've
> learned a lot from all of you
>
> I just started using MAGpie 2.5 on a windows based computer, I have a (now
> edited down to) 10 minute video, which I could output to ANY format as I do
> have Premiere and know video....
>
> I also have the script as a text file, I did all the work in MAGpie (using
> an .avi file, it wouldn't open the .wmv file at all) and exported it and it
> works fine on this computer, running on windows media player, captioning is
> fine, I then saved all the raw files to a DVD and running that on this
> computer also
> has the captioning showing up....but take it to my laptop (and it has to
> play on someone else's laptop) and it doesn't work.....I redid the whole
> thing, including downloading MAGpie again for the laptop and it just doesn't
> show up, I checked all the settings, tried quicktime and windows media
> player (captioning is checked off as an option)
>
> I find though there is very basic documentation online, there isn't really
> any help, I did join the listserv but other than join, I don't know where to
> send that a message or where to ask for help, if I cannot get this going, I
> will end up having to run just a straight line of text
> across the bottom (black backgound) via editing (time consuming!)
>
> I did love the way MAGpie works and as I've said it seemed to do the job,
> but not in general, I also would like to know if you can get the file to a
> REAL DVD output (that would play on a REAL DVD with the captioning)
>
> any help greatly appreciated and if I'm not asking in the 'right' place,
> please point me!
>
> Thanks
>
> sharon t
> webmistress/sherlock center on disabilities/rhode island college
> adjunct professor/CIS/rhode island college school of management
>
> http://www.sherlockcenter.org
> http://www.dubowitzsyndrome.net
>