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

Just to add to PJ's piece, it all depends on what players your end
recipients have installed, you may need to get them to update their player.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"PapaJohn" <papajohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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the Mac world can easily play the same wmv files viewed by Windows Media
Player in the Windows world..... as mov files can be viewed in either
world by different players.

I watch my online wmv videos on Macs in the big Apple store in Chicago,
and on my son's iPhone.

The Distribute Movies > Apples and Others page of my website has some info
and links.

Two worlds... two players unless you go to something that works in both
such as flash files or the new Micorosoft Silverlight, which work in both.
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website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn


"Tonio" <adechampeaux@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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!
--
Tony








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