[MacDV] Cross-platform Quicktime issues

[Richard Gilmore]

We had a student here who was trying to get her quicktime clips to play on a PC 
Powerpoint and had quite a bit of trouble. It worked on a Mac just fine though 
and she eventually did the show from a Mac. The issues we had were converting 
the QT to MPEG which normally play on PC but the version of QT we had would 
only make MPEG 4's which Windows does not support yet. MPEG 3 is supported and 
we were told will work on a PC and in PP. We did convert the files to AVI's and 
that still didn't work for us. After this we bought Cleaner 6 which should 
convert QT to any other format and vice versa. We haven't tested it however. If 
you can get a hold of Cleaner that might do the trick. 

Richard



Quoting Carl Flatow <cflatow at optonline.net>:

> I have a Powerpoint (Office X) presentation that I made and show on the 
> Mac.
> It has several Quicktime movies embedded- a standard video clip, a QTVR 
> and a 3D animation that was exported to Quicktime.
> When I play it on a PC the Quicktime pieces don't play.
> We tried to download and install Quicktime on the PC with partial 
> success.
> 
> Has anyone had experience in solving these cross-platform Quicktime 
> issues and, if not, does anyone know of the appropriate forum to ask 
> this question?
> 
> Carl