Q: Hi guys!! I exported a video but it would not open in windows as it says the windows live media player could not open this file. S ... Hi guys!! I exported a video but it would not open in windows as it says the windows live media player could not open this file. So how do i solve this??please help i need to pass this up by today!!! more
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Aug 23, 2014 5:25 PM in response to blondejjongby Kurt Lang,★HelpfulThe Windows user should be able to open the .mov file by installing the free QuickTime Player for Windows.
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Aug 23, 2014 5:29 PM in response to Kurt Langby blondejjong,ok thank you so much!!! but just wondering if the windows user does not have quicktime player,what other ways can the user watch it? as the user is my teacher and i am not sure whether she will have quicktime player...........
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Aug 23, 2014 5:35 PM in response to blondejjongby Kurt Lang,Most Windows users don't have it installed, but it's the quickest solution to your problem. Send him or her this same link with a note s/he needs to install it to view your project.
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Aug 24, 2014 2:09 AM in response to blondejjongby Karsten Schlüter,blondejjong wrote:
... but it would not open in windows as it says the windows live media player could not open this file...
Plan B)
… instead of asking Windows users to install software before playing (and I know, they are shy installing QT ) , you could REWRAP your FCPX' exports:
How to create a video for playback with Windows/XBox/PS3/… etc?
To perform this trick, do NOT export a 'master file', this would contain proRes, which is of little use in the Windows hemisphere... export any 'Apple device' setting, which is h.264, and follow advice given in the linked User Tipp. No, just renaming the suffix from mov>>mp4 does NOT work ... A rewrap does not re-convert = no quality loss, and is a lightspeed fast process.
Doing it 'daily' to distribute my stuff to my soccer-parents.....
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Aug 24, 2014 6:46 AM in response to blondejjongby Kurt Lang,Something I should have thought of earlier. If you have the option in FCPX, output a new version in .wmv format. That's the native video format Windows uses.
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Aug 24, 2014 7:30 AM in response to Kurt Langby Karsten Schlüter,Kurt Lang wrote:
... If you have the option in FCPX, output a new version in .wmv format.
out-of-the-box, wmv is no supported codec on MacOS.
You need a $$ plug-in from
http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/overview.htm
which supports this proprietary format .........
re-wrapping to mp4, as mentioned in my post above, is the easiest, fastest and 'open minded' way
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Aug 24, 2014 11:18 AM in response to Karsten Schlüterby Kurt Lang,Yeah, that was a guess on my part since I use the Adobe suite. It's rather irritating that you can, and can't generate a .wmv file with that software, either. If you export an After Effects project directly to Adobe Media Encoder, you can create a .wmv video from that AE sequence, but no other way. So, the Mac version of Adobe's video suite obviously does include the necessary code to create a .wmv file, but you can't do it from a Premiere Pro sequence. Why?