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Cinematize

Cinematize

extract dvd clips to quicktime, ipod, final cut, powerpoint

Version:  2.07

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WARNING: Demo version caused big crash IN OS X 10.4

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Contributed by: jmburke Monday, September 19 2005 @ 06:55 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

I downloaded the Mac demo of Cinematize today. Although the system requirements information doesn’t say anything about not being OS X 10.4 ready, I suspect it doesn’t work with 10.4. I tried to extract a couple of small DVD files. When it appeared it would take forever, I decided to check my e-mail while I waited. I dragged a couple of Word files which came as attachments in an e-mail to my desktop. At that point all hell broke loose. Nothing worked right and force quit did not force anything to quit. I restarted and logged in. Then my finder kept quitting and restarting, quitting and restarting, every 5 seconds. I ended up installing 10.4 onto my external hard drive, booting from there, and then trashing every Cinematize file I could find. I had to then restore some preferences to my computer. All of this took several hours today.

The Miraizon website says nothing about OS X 10.4 compatibility.

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Nothing to do with Cinematize - Miraizon

As we state above in the section entitled "What's new in this version" for version 2.04 of Cinematize, Cinematize 2.04 is "Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and QuickTime 7." We have had thousands of users trying this Cinematize 2.04 demo with no problems, and we assume quite a few of them use Mac OS X 10.4.

We think the problems this user described have nothing to do with Cinematize. It was just a coincidence he was trying out the Cinematize demo at the time of the crash. Even he points here out that the crash happened when he dragged a Word file attachment from his email program out onto his desktop. After talking with this user by phone, we learned that he now suspects a spell-checker program he was using at the time.

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Tuesday, October 04 2005 @ 11:00 PM PDT