[Shane Ross] “Many PC systems don’t work with QT files…and unless the system has the codec that you encoded as, it won’t work at all.”
Do you really know a professional editing software for windows that does not have ability to import quicktime? This usually involves some conversion, but can be done.
Quicktime7 contains a standard set of codecs, so your windows system has those codecs after you have installed qt7. With eg. After effects of QTpro you can also convert qt-mov’s to avi’s of your editing software’s native codec, if it refuses to understand qt at all.
In real world mixing edit systems happens every day. That’s why we have EDL’s. Usually offline and online is not made with same system.