[dude]

I made a two hour recording of a conversation on my MBA inside of OmniOutliner while I took notes. Getting that file out of OO3 easily has been a bit of pain.

I finally used the help of Garage Band to get it to a format that I could pass out besides the .mov format it is recorded in.

I could not open it or import it into iTunes or export it out of QuickTime.

Am I missing something?

Is there help coming for this ability in the OO4? .m4v would be cool enough.

[DerekM]

You can change what compression it's using the Sound Capture tab of preferences to something that works better for you. MPEG-4 is an option. Let me know if you have any further questions about this. Thanks!

[dude]

Bingo! Thanks for the tip!

[whpalmer4]

It's easy enough to get that file into iTunes and out as MP3 or AIFF or whatever.

Select the OO3 file in the Finder. Right-click and select Show Package Contents. Drag the .mov file and drop onto the iTunes icon in the dock. Use Advanced->Create <type> Version in iTunes to make a file of type <type>, after setting the Import preferences accordingly.

Should also have been able to open it in QuickTime by similar means, though I didn't see any way that you could export it with the standard version of QuickTime.

[dude]

The file would not import into iTunes. It claimed it was corrupt or not valid.

[whpalmer4]

Interesting, wonder why it didn't work for you. I made a recording of 2 hours duration just now, and the steps I outlined brought it into iTunes without incident. I'm running OOP 3.10.3, iTunes 10.5 (141), Mac OS X 10.6.8, and the default settings for sound capture in OOP.

[dude]

I am on Lion.

[whpalmer4]

Sounds like yet another reason to hold off on the upgrade!