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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:04:01 -0500
- From: Rebecca Roolf <rr3b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: QuickTime Windows/Mac
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- I've been following the QT Windows / Video for Windows announcements
- from the perspective of a Macintosh user who may want to port some
- things to Windows.
-
- One message posted here recently, contained a product announcement for a
- CD-ROM which is apparently cross-platform IBM/Mac and uses QT. Yet the
- CD contains "two exact copies of each of the movies, one in the
- Macintosh QT format and the other in the Windows QT format..."
-
- The implication here is that QT Windows is not immediately compatible
- with QT Macintosh. Therefore, you have to have two copies of each
- movie, or convert the movies manually, rather than running the same
- files without fussing? Is there a good reason why this would
- necessarily be the case?
-
- According to an article in December's PC World, Video for Windows has
- the capacity to convert QT Macintosh movies to its own file format. If
- Apple's QT Windows requires you to do the same, it seems to me they've
- lost one of their possible advantages.
-
- Both packages are supposed to be shipping this month (Apple's is
- supposedly to be out today, 11/23). If anyone does some comparison, I'd
- be interested in the results. I'd also be interested to hear from any
- Mac users who are trying to take things across to Windows.
-
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- Becka Roolf, Research Associate Interactive Teaching Network
- Studio for Creative Inquiry a multimedia project
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- Carnegie Mellon University
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