Accessing Mac QuickTime clips (MPEG4) on a PC

[sean90291]

I keep running into this issue, so I bet someone has a better solution than I do.

I am often given QuickTime files out of FCP that cannot be opened on a PC. Not even in QuickTime Pro. These files seem to be Mac-only, somehow. However, SOME programs like VLC Player will be able to play these files on a PC. And I even found one more obscure conversion software on PC that does a lower-resolution conversion of these Mac files to QuickTime playable on PC. But it is a lower-resolution file.

Surely, there's a better way to get these Mac files converted on a PC, given that VLC and these cheap conversion software can handle the files. I've tried Avid, After Effects, and Sorenson Squeeze, all to no avail.

Any tips?

 

[plundstr]

Is there any way to see what kind of codec the files actually are...?

 

[Jim Simon]

Any tips?

Get the Mac user out of your production chain. Explain to him that over 90% of the world's computers run the Windows operating system, and then when he chooses not to, he is actually creating problems (such as this compatibility issue), rather than solving them.