Sharing qt movies with Windows users

JohnMNewman

1. Why not get them to install Quicktime for Windows? It's free.

2. AFAIK an exe file is an app - or executable. You might want to convert the movie to an avi or wmv rather than exe. Quicktime Pro will do this.

Regards

TD

No.
QuickTime Pro does not export to WMP formats without a paid upgrade for third party software from http://flip4mac.com (about $50).
Nearly any Windows computer with a modern OS can install the free QuickTime Player. Millions of PC's have downloaded it and it also comes bundled with iTunes software downloads.

Kirk

Thanks for the heads up. I'd completely forgotten that I even bought that, and lo and behold there's a serial number in there.

What about the export to avi option? Is that part of QTP?

Regards

TD

iPhoto would publish to a .Mac "Gallery" and the page code used there is written to call the QuickTime browser plug-in. Even if they created an AVI it would still be displayed using QuickTime.
They could use iMovie 7 to upload to YouTube but I can only imagine how ugly a 320X240 image only slide show file would look.

I meant the export to avi I have in my QT Player

Regards

TD

Right.
QuickTime Pro can export to AVI but iPhoto can't. Any AVI made would use the ancient Cinepak video codec.
But the upload from any of the iLife apps would still write page code that only uses QuickTime.
It's a lose lose proposition.
Buying QuickTime Pro ($30) and then the $50 for flip4mac could create a .wmv file. The only way to use that new file would be in a Web page that merely "linked to file". Linking to the file would allow the user to download it and open it in any supported player.
I wouldn't go through all those steps and spend that kind of money just for a handful of Windows users that do not want (or can't) to install the free QuickTime Player for Windows.