[John Smith]

Thanks very much John.

You said that both windows users and mac users will be able to download and play MP4’s, but will some people have to download a specific player before they can do this? As I tested a rendered mp4 last night on four PC’s, as follows:

1) One was my Vista machine which automatically played it in Quicktime player.
2) the other was an XP laptop, which it wouldnt play on, so I had to download Quicktime player (which took a while to do!)
3)I also tested it on a newer Windows 7 PC, which it played automatically via Quicktime player.
4) but finally I tested it on another Vista machine and it didnt play again, so I had to download the Quicktime player again.

The videos I am offering for download are within a paid members section of the website, so I am just a bit concerned that people will download the MP4 video, double click it, then it won’t play because they will be expecting it to auto play in windows media player and I will receive a lot of emails sayin “the video won’t play” etc. plus people may not want to download an additional player.

Also, is Quicktime player even the best player to have for MP4’s?

Do you think it would be better to render to WMV (for windows users)along with MP4 (for mac and Windows users) too, to cover both scenarios?

I want to have the videos in a modern format, but at the same time make the files easy to view without any inconvenience to paying website subscribers.

Any other suggestions?

Many thanks again for all your help with this.

[John Smith]

Thanks guys for your help. I will definately try the H.264/MPEG4 for the instant play/preview in JW Player.

However, formats for people to be able to download the full HD video would still need to be WMV and Mov woudlnt they, as people can not simply download and play MPEG4’s, right?

Basically I need the smaller instant preview file type for the JW player then two formats that are downloadable at full HD size (1440×1080 for example).

By the way, I am recording at 1980×1080 in HA1080 format which is the best new project settings to use when making the new project in Sony Vegas? Its a bit of guess work at the moment.

Many thanks again!