Save QT edit in other formats?

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Save QT edit in other formats?

Is there any way to edit a movie in QT and save it in other than
.mov format? Or must it be saved first in .mov and then converted
to abother format, such as ,avi or ,wmv?

The reason I ask is that some of my Windows using friends have
trouble playing my .mov videos, but if I convert them to say .avi files
using Visual hub or MPEGstreamclip, they always suffer a loss
of quality.

G4 533 DA, Mercury Extreme G4 1.33GHz CPU, Mac OS X (10.4.8), ATI Radeon 9200, 1 GB RAM

Posted on Jan 30, 2008 1:08 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 30, 2008 2:05 PM in response to fflynn

The quality will vary depending on the data rate you choose. Look at the export settings in Visual Hub and try setting a higher data rate for the WMV.

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fflynn Author

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Jan 30, 2008 2:27 PM in response to Colin Holgate

Thanks Colin. I'll experiment with the data rate.
But am I right that you can't edit in QT Pro and then save to a format other than .mov?

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Answer 3

Jan 31, 2008 7:35 AM in response to fflynn

You can't save to another format, but you can export to other formats. Aside from any file differences, the main problem is that the other formats use other codecs. Windows Media video often uses the WMV9 codec, Flash video uses Sorenson Spark or On2 VP6, and so on. As part of saving to those other formats you would have to transcode the video from H.264 or whatever it is now, to the other codec. In general that also requires buying an add on to QuickTime to do that, or buying an application that does both the editing and compressing.

Look at this page for some possible programs to use:

http://flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

It could be that the $49 Studio edition would do nicely for what you want to do.

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