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1 hr movie on a laptop?
Pulling my hair out!
I have an uncompressed 161 gig (1 hour) QT Movie (NTSC Size) created in FCX
that needs to be playable off a common windows laptop.When I test a simple 500mg movie (sor3) on the laptop it barely runs, playing with QT Player.
Is there anything I can do to ensure when I give this to my client (gotta make multiple copies)
it will play well?[I originally made it into a DVD, but for some reason the projector they are using will not display the movie
but it worked great on the laptop screen)Thanks for any thoughts
Brian
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3 Replies
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H.264 is the way to go. use Compressor for this and then have the windows client get Quicktime Player for Windows.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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Walter is right….also keep an eye on your data rate and frame size if the file may be played on older machines
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Yes, get flip4mac and make it a wmv. Nothing works better in windows than wmv files. File sizes will be much smaller, look great and work well on windows machines.
Believe it or not, h264 takes some processing to sort out, some ‘common’ windows laptops don’t really like a lot of processing.
Jeremy
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