Final Film (HD) Won’t Play on Windows QT

[Mike Petty]

Concur…but the problem is they are going to be giving the file to their customers…so I have hundreds of people who need to play this rascal. I keep recommending to just push them to the web but they are old school (you know – 2002) so this is what I have to do.

How do I get a 1080P30 File converted to play on Windows Media Player on crappy office computers???

[Mark Maness]

If you going to web, you can make a smaller H.264 QuickTime file and change the .mov extension to .flv and you’ve got a Flash video file. This really works well. If they have a old Adobe Flash file, it will upgrade for them automatically by ask them to upgrade.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mike Petty]

I’m not going to the web – They already have the spot up on Vimeo/YouTube – They want a file they can carry around on a thumb drive and transfer onto customer computers.

Why they want to do this mystifies me but I am not inclined to argue with their sales strategy,

I am currently trying a bunch of different .wmv presets in Flip4Mac StudioHD. In the first couple of tests I can live with the lower picture quality but the film stutters to the point of being unwatchable. Anybody have any magic presets for Flip4Mac HD Studion that might work?

I am also going to take another run at creating an MP4 file. I tried it with the file chaged to .mpg (and that would not play on WMP) now I’ll try it in compressor and leave it at MP4 and see what happens.

Is there and H.264 setting that will play in Windows media player?

Thanks for all of the input BTW…I’m sure all of us, including me, have other stuff to do.

[Mark Maness]

Ok… I’m sorry that I misunderstood what you were doing. In that case, you only options that I’ve used were to create your videos in mpeg2 or mpeg1 files. You’ll loose some quality and they will be letterboxed, but you can play these anywhere.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mike Petty]

Actually think I have it whipped. I took the original file from FCP into Compressor and cooked it as a QT H.264 at 1280×720. Then I exported that from QT as a .wmv file using Flip4Mac HD Studio. Quality is excellent and it played fine on my client’s crummy office computer. A new workflow is born.

Thanks for all of the thoughts guys.