[MacDV] Re: Cross-platform Quicktime issues

[Carl Flatow]

I was able to convert the Quicktime movies using QT Pro on the Mac from 
.mov to .avi.
When I inserted these new files into place in the Powerpoint document 
on the Windows XP machine they played, albeit, with lower quality and 
at larger file sizes.

I was able to install Quicktime on the XP machine where it played the 
original .mov files beautifully, including a QTVR which I could not 
convert to .avi.

Hope that helps.

Carl


On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 02:51 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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