[MacDV] Re: Cross-Platform Compatibility?

[Bobbo]

My buddy is using QTPro, version 5. Here is his comment on the procedure,
as he tried to play it on a Windows machine:

>Acrobat Reader wouldn't recognize the embedded movie; it
>prompted for  a "replacement file." When I selected the movie  (.mov)
>file, it came back with "not a movie file," yet the movie played fine
>in QT on the PC."

>I don't see how you could play a QuickTime movie from a PDF document
>anyway.

Acrobat allows the embedding of a QT movie in the file, just like any other
element.

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

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