[MacDV] Cross-Platform Compatibility?

[Mark M. Florida]

I don't see how you could play a QuickTime movie from a PDF document 
anyway.  All you have to do is re-save the movie from QuickTime Player 
(Pro) as a self-contained movie.  I don't think "flattening" has been 
an issue since QuickTime 4 -- all QuickTime 5 and 6 movies are "flat" 
in the first place, and should not require any special "flattening" to 
be made cross-platform.

- Mark


On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 10:19  AM, Bobbo wrote:

> I received the following from a friend today. He had created a QT 
> movie and
> embedded it in a .pdf document for cross-platform play. When he tried 
> to
> play it on a PC, it didn't play. He sent me the following info, which I
> wanted to check out here:
>
> "Movies created on a Mac have to be "flattened"
> in order to lose the resource fork, so the movie will play on both
> platforms. Somehow, it still plays on Mac after being flattened,
> Flattening is as easy as exporting or doing a Save As in QT Pro, and
> selecting the "make self-contained" option."
>
> Anyone else know if it is indeed the case that QT Pro is required for
> making cross-platform QT movies, or if there are workarounds within 
> either
> iMovie or FCP in terms of how you export? Or is there a solution within
> Adobe Acrobat itself?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bobbo
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