Best tool for Mac QT file to Windows file?

[Shawn Nelson]

I started distributing QT files for the web and am getting too many 'I don't have QT installed!' complaints. Retorts about QT went unanswered. So, I need to distribute my stuff in a Windows compliant format.

So, how does this pertain to Red? Well I can't bring myself to go the YouTube flash route, so I think I need to suck it up and make it a windows media file. I figure everyone has either QT or Windows Media.

Hence, does anyone know of a good tool, preferably that runs on a Mac, that can take in a QT and spit out a comparable windows media file? When I did this before, I would export QT from my mac, haul it over to my PC, export to AVI and then pull it through the Microsoft encoder, it was a giant pain. Hopefully there's a much better route.

 

[Ido Karilla]

MPEG STREAMCLIP FOR MAC AND WINDOWS.

Try it out it is a good fast and free tool:


http://www.squared5.com/

 

[Hans-Georg Daun]

Use QuickTime Player and "export for web". There's a good chance that movies exported to H.264 in REDAlert, REDLine or REDrender will also work. You may have to change the file extension to ".mp4".

Cheers
Hans

P.S: I have tried to verify the above, but could not find a windows system without QuickTime installed in my household. Sorry...

 

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

Check out flip4mac
http://www.flip4mac.com/

It is a plugin for Quicktime, so it adds Windows media to your export options in QT, and works quite fast.

 

[Thomas Mathai]

Why not try Flash Video, it's probably the only plugin everyone has to get.