Re: produce a film that can be read with PC & Mac?

Tonio wrote:

Hi there,

I make .wmv films with Windows Movie Maker (.wmv files). Inputs are .avi files taken with my camera (video & audio) and .mp3 sound files added to the previous; then I add titles etc. with WMM.

I want to email those films (max size 3 Mo) to people who will read them either on Mac or PC, with Apple QuickTime or any WindowsXP player (like WindowsMediaPlayer, DivX or MediaPlayerClassic).

Everything is fine in the PC world: WMM asks me the size of the output I want, and then I can rename .wmv files into .avi or .mpeg files, so they can be seen with any Windows player.

But it does not work this way with Mac and QuickTime! Even when I rename my .avi files into .mov files, I cannot read them (neither with QuickTime on a PC nor on a Mac).

So I tried and convert them into .mov files with softwares such as VideoConverter (the simplest), MediaCoder or RadVideoTools. Then I can read my files with QuickTime… but after that I can no longer read them in the PC world, even though I rename them into .avi files!!!

What a nightmare! So my question is:

--> Who can I produce a film that can be read directly in both worlds (PC & Mac)?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

What I would personally do is copy (not move) the file to another folder and convert that file to .mov. Now you'll have both versions that will play on quicktime or media player. If you don't have enough hard drive space for that, I don't know what to tell you.
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