[OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Jim Carwardine
How do I make a video on a Mac that can be viewed on a PC? It seems that whatever tool I use - QuickTime, Adobe Flash Video Encoder (CS3), IshowU, Flip4Mac - the ensuing video cannot be played universally on a PC, yet, if I get the same video, created on a Mac but converted to a .flv or a

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
You can't just play an FLV, to play that you would either have an application that can play it (say VLC) or you would have embedded a swf that can play the FLV. Whatever way you did it, those players can also play MPEG-4 files. So, use QuickTime Player's Save for Web, and that will produce a

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 15/02/2010 22:30, Jim Carwardine wrote: snip Why is this so complex on a Mac? Is there no easy way? 'complex' - umm . . . with QT pro you should have no problem saving as AVI or WMV have a look at iSquint: http://www.isquint.org FREE . . . :) and VisualHub: http://www.visualhub.net

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: with QT pro you should have no problem saving as AVI or WMV AVI may not look so good (it's generally old codecs), and to make WMV requires extra products. After that you would have a file that not all Mac users can play. Doing the

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Jim Carwardine
Thanks, Colin... Yes, I do use the player code but I have not seen your simple way explained anywhere on the web... Thanks... Jim On 15-Feb-10, at 4:44 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: You can't just play an FLV, to play that you would either have an application that can play it (say VLC) or you

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote: Thanks, Colin... Yes, I do use the player code but I have not seen your simple way explained anywhere on the web... Thanks... Jim For full disclosure, the playback would need to be for Flash Player 9.0.115 or later (that was released about

RE: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Lynn Fredricks
It seems that whatever tool I use - QuickTime, Adobe Flash Video Encoder (CS3), IshowU, Flip4Mac - the ensuing video cannot be played universally on a PC, yet, if I get the same video, created on a Mac but converted to a .flv or a .wmv on a PC everyone seems to be able to play it. Im

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Jim Ault
Handbrake for the Mac is free and quite powerful. A wide variety of controls and options, with user presets. Constant quality encoding. Lots of documentation http://handbrake.fr/ Nov 23, 2009 Jim Ault Las Vegas On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 15/02/2010 22:30,

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Selander
I work in broadcast production; dabble in xTalk... Colin's method of playing h.264 files via flash is the way to go for cross compatibility if you want to roll your own. If you Google it, you can find all kinds of step by step instructions, if needed. However, I have found that the

Re: [OT] Making videos on a Mac

2010-02-15 Thread Josh Mellicker
The movie on this page (click the TV) demonstrates publishing H.264 movies in Flash players: http://www.dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen-20/ On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote: How do I make a video on a Mac that can be viewed on a PC? It seems that whatever tool I use -