Hi Guys,
I made the mistake of creating a PowerPoint presentation on my Mac that incorporated a number of movie files ripped from YouTube that my manager now wishes me to distribute to the rest of my department. The problem here is that *SHOCK* everyone else is running Windows (2000 and XP) and that, by default, Windows and PowerPoint doesn't understand MPEG-4 files an when someone reaches a slide with a movie on it they are greeted with the dialog from Windows Media Player "The file you are attempting to play has an extension that does not match the file format. Playing the file may result in unexpected behaviour" followed by PowerPoint displaying the message "QuickTime and a mpeg4 decompressor are needed to see this picture.". I need to get these movie files into a format that Windows understands by default since asking people to install QuickTime is not an option (believe it or not but having it installed means that our online Accounts Payable images can't be displayed).
I have a license for QuickTime Pro and the only thing that I can think of at the moment is getting a license for Flip4Mac WMV Studio at $50. Any other ideas?
I made the mistake of creating a PowerPoint presentation on my Mac that incorporated a number of movie files ripped from YouTube that my manager now wishes me to distribute to the rest of my department. The problem here is that *SHOCK* everyone else is running Windows (2000 and XP) and that, by default, Windows and PowerPoint doesn't understand MPEG-4 files an when someone reaches a slide with a movie on it they are greeted with the dialog from Windows Media Player "The file you are attempting to play has an extension that does not match the file format. Playing the file may result in unexpected behaviour" followed by PowerPoint displaying the message "QuickTime and a mpeg4 decompressor are needed to see this picture.". I need to get these movie files into a format that Windows understands by default since asking people to install QuickTime is not an option (believe it or not but having it installed means that our online Accounts Payable images can't be displayed).
I have a license for QuickTime Pro and the only thing that I can think of at the moment is getting a license for Flip4Mac WMV Studio at $50. Any other ideas?