[MacDV] Converting QT .mov files to .mpg

[Paul Moortgat]

And why didn't she downloaded QT for PC?

Paul Moortgat

On woensdag, okt 22, 2003, at 18:35 Europe/Brussels, Richard Gilmore 
wrote:

> We had somebody in who had some video on VHS that she needed captured 
> to be
> used in a Powerpoint presentation on a PC. I used iMovie and had no 
> problems
> making some QT .mov clips about 1 minute each. The QT clip of course 
> wouldn't
> work on her PC so I used Cleaner 6 to convert it to an mpg 2. The only 
> problem
> is that the original QT file was about 500k and .mpg file Cleaner 
> created was
> over 6 megs(!), which was too big. I then made a .wmv file which was 
> about
> twice the size of the QT file and worked fine on her PC. What I'm 
> wondering is
> why was the .mpg file so much larger than the QT file? Is there 
> something I'm
> doing wrong? What would be the best approach to convert a .mov file to 
> .mpg? We
> have a lot of this kind of cross platform issues.
>
> thanx much
>
> Richard
>
> (thanx also for the FW box help in some previous posts)
>
>
>
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