Exporting to Windows-Friendly Format

Hello Apple forums,

I am running the latest version of Final Cut Express on Mountain Lion 10.8.3. Surprisingly, my FCE runs well and works as it should.

I was working on a client's job, and I exported the final product as a QuickTime movie file to give to the client on a flash drive (encoded as exFAT, if that matters).

When he went to open them on a computer running Windows 7, he was unable to view the movies, and we later found it was because the files were formatted in an Apple-specific codec, but disguised under the visage of a .mov file. We had the name of the codec, but I forgot the name of it and I will edit this post with the name of the codec when I find out what the name was again.

His goal was to upload the video to YouTube, and the files weren't compatible with YouTube.

⚠ I was wondering if there was a way I could export my FCE sequences as a file format that WASN'T only compatible with Macs. ⚠

Back on Snow Leopard, I didn't have this problem; however, I am now using high-quality HD footage as compared to before when I was using 240p quality footage.

Any help on this would be very appreciated. If you need to know more details, please, just ask away and I will be more than happy to provide any more information. Thank you for your time!

I will award points for helpful answers too, so if you think you might know something, just post anyways. 🙂

- Justin