Cell Phone Video Editing

I thought the JT-08 was a cool unit too.. QVGA display and even some english menu features, but when you take the time to edit a video clip what can you do with it.. show it to some-one using your handset *_*

What was J-Phone/Toshiba thinking when they made this unit, to include a groovy function like that but then not consider that people who make their ‘custom edit’ movie can’t send it over the network (15k limit) and since it doesn’t have a (SD) memory card they can’t off-load the file to a desktop machine either. Maybe on a future version they will address this seemingly simple issue..?!? 

did you see his first test movie?

http://tokyocolin.blogspot.com/

You just need to put XP in Japanese mode.

The technical explaination is that some international programs are written in Unicode and they will work on any version of XP in any mode.  Other programs are written in some code native to that country.  In that case, they just assume you are running a version of Windows from that country that defaults to using that country’s codes.  MySync is one of those programs

So, to make your XP run MySync follow these steps.

1. If you already have Japanese input installed go to step 8
2. To install Japanese input, Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language settings.  Click the Advanced tab and under Code page conversion tables turn on Japanese.

   You *might* have to reboot now in order for the next part to work.

3. Under the languages tab where it says “Text services and input languages” click “Details”, then “Add…” add Japanese as an “Input Language”, the keyboard would be US if you have a US keyboard or Japanese if you have a Japanese keyboard
4. Once you do that, also click “key settings…” and change all of those settings “key squence” to none.  Otherwise you will sometimes automatically switch into / out of Japanese mode when you least expect it. (at least I do so I turned them off)
5. Now, once it installs you will see a language bar, you can right click on it and make it go in your taskbar if you want.  Otherwise, somewhere on the languge bar there should be an EN or JP icon.  Click it to switch input modes.
6. If it’s in JP mode, go to any microsoft program or webpage form and type “toru”.  If you get romanji, press “Alt+Tilde” and type it again (note: there is a menu item for that on the language bar but it’s in Japanese).  You should get hiragana with a dotted underline.  Press space it should change to a kanji, press space again and you should get a list of at least 9 different homonyms for the word “toru” each with a definition in Japanese so you can pick the correct one
7. To go back to English mode use the language bar, change that JP to EN.  (you can also switch to the english mode of the Japanese input by pressing Alt-Tilda again)

   Note that in Japanese mode there are a billion options including pen input where you can draw the kanji.  Great for studying. On the language bar it’s the second to the last icon, the one that says IME バッド, click that, click the top menu item. Presto, draw your kanji.  It’s even got voice input :-p  Language bar settings are per program so if turn on pen input in one program and switch to another program that program will not be using pen input.

8. To get Japanese to work everywhere in Windows go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language settings and on the advanced tab, set the “Language for non-Unicode programs” to Japanese.  Now you can use Japanese everywhere.  filenames, notepad, windows media player, etc.  Of course some western programs just don’t support Japanese.

   Don’t worry your menus will not change to Japanese.

The biggest issue is that in Japanese the default font changes to a Japanese font and in Japanese the backslash becomes the yen symbol.  On top of that, if you use MS:Word, DO NOT HAVE IT IN JAPANESE INPUT MODE (switch the JP to EN on the language bar) otherwise it will drive you nuts because it keeps separate styles for Japanese text vs English text.  It might have to do this since most fonts don’t have the Kanji in them but it’s frustrating if you use styles since there are now two for everything.

One other issue is that some programs, very few, if they have international support and in particular have both Japanese and English, since you set the OS to Japanese they will install in Japanese.  If you are lucky they will let you pick.  For example Quicktime used to have this problem.  As of 6.0 they fixed it.   In those cases go back to the control panel and set the non-unicode programs to english then install the problem software and then switch back.

Another solution would be to make a new user and setup this Japanese stuff only for that user.  You can log in as them when you need to use Japanese software but leave your main user as just English.  In fact you don’t even need to log out yourself when you want to use it, just pick “log off…” from the start menu and pick “switch user”.