Hi John,
This is the same question Kathy had and it has the same answer. The reason
you see inconsistencies on different Mac's is most likely the video codec
(short for compressor/decompressor) you are using to create the movie. It
has nothing to do with the Quicktime application. In order for any video
application to playback a movie, it must first decode the bitstream from
your digital file. And how can a player decipher a bitstream? CODECS!
Just make sure you have the codec you are using to create the movie
installed on any machine you wish to playback the file. Be aware that
depending on the software installed, Mac's will have different codecs.
Premiere, for example, will install a host of codecs not normally found in
the Mac OS. You may have to install any secondary codecs by hand.
As I pointed out before, the DiVX codec is Mac and PC compatible and will
take that 2 MB movie and compress it down to a few hundred K without loss of
quality. Try downloading it and using it to create/playback movies. I
guarantee you'll be impressed. Here is the link.
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index.html#codecs
Have fun!
-Jason
Jason Kirk
Center for Biomedical Imaging Technology
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Ave.
Farmington, CT 06030
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From: Confocal Microscopy List
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Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:48 AM
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Subject: Re: QuickTime
Dear Kathy and all,
I'm glad the problem has been solved but it brings up another question from
me. I
routinely make movies in quicktime (.mov) format using Adobe Premier for
Macintosh
and they play perfectly well on all of our lab Macs. In my opinion, a
Macintosh
should play a .mov file, is this incorrect? Is it just a question of having
the
latest version of Quicktime installed?
Also, in the past I have had cross-platform compatibility issues that I was
able to
solve by using the movie conversion software Rad Video tools:
http://www.radgametools.com/down/bink/radtools.exe
Thanks for your help, John.
Kathy Spencer wrote:
> Hello All!
> This list has been so helpful to me, I'll try again with another
question.
> I have built a QuickTime movie in Adobe Premiere that plays
wonderfully on
> PCs...it will NOT play on Macs. It is a .mov file. This was the only
format
> where I could get the file size under 2MB. If I export as .avi, it's too
> big. The on-line journal requested .mov, but they must have Macs, because
> they cannot see it. Any suggestions?
> Thanks!
> Kathy
>
> Kathy Spencer
> The Scripps Research Institute
> 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road
> IMM 24
> La Jolla, CA 92037
> (858) 784-9372
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