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Q: Burning DVDS !!! or Zip drives

My Q. is this ,with in the next few years Burning a program to DVDS will be out dated , I tried to put my finished program on a Zip Drive (.mov) and played well on my computer & television.

"BUT" when I transported the zip drive to a friends house to view " the zip drive not compatible did not recognize , there television could not read .

Is there a universal source ( zip drive ) I can use ?   P.S. The Video on the Zip drive was 38 gbts. Quick time !!!

Thank you        Pat !!!

Posted on Jun 21, 2014 6:55 AM

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  • by Ho Lee MACkeral,

    Ho Lee MACkeral Ho Lee MACkeral Jun 21, 2014 7:15 AM in response to pascal pecirno
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    Jun 21, 2014 7:15 AM in response to pascal pecirno

    Not sure what you mean by Zip drive. The ones I know are those that were popular in the 90s–early 2000s.

     

    As far as a .mov not playing. Is your friend's computer Windows? If it is, I would install VLC and 99% of the time, it will play using that app.

  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Jun 21, 2014 7:39 AM in response to pascal pecirno
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    Jun 21, 2014 7:39 AM in response to pascal pecirno

    pascal pecirno wrote:

    ...The Video on the Zip drive was 38 gbts. Quick time !!!

    looks like, you exported a 'Master File' in proRes... proRes is only installed on Mac, which have a few 'pro'-apps, such as FCP, Motion or Logix installed.

     

    The actual (who knows in 20y??) format is h.264 in a mp4... such files are compatible with any actual devices...

    Wrote his User Tip a while ago, meant for iMovie, but for sure works similiar in FCPX

    How to create a video for playback with Windows/XBox/PS3/… etc?

     

    zip-drives???

    This was zip....:

    zipdrive.jpg

    I had one too... late 90ies, last century....

     

    or do you mean usb-stick? ..

     

    TVs often ask for a special file/folder structure on 'drives' - read the Manual of the telly....

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Jun 21, 2014 12:00 PM in response to pascal pecirno
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    Jun 21, 2014 12:00 PM in response to pascal pecirno

    pascal pecirno wrote:

     

    "BUT" when I transported the zip drive to a friends house to view " the zip drive not compatible did not recognize , there television could not read .

     

    Just to reinforce the idea that the playability problem isn't the storage device; it is that there is no universal file format that televisions will accept. So one set may require an MPEG-2, another an MP4, another an AVI…and so forth. The choice we have is either research the TV specs or export multiple formats to cover a range of possibilities.

     

    Russ