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

[Tonio]

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!

 

[PapaJohn]

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.

 

[Walter]

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.

 

[Graham Hughes]

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.