Newbie Alert; Quicktime video conversions

Carinus wrote on 1/21/2003, 5:04 PM

I am VERY new to all the web / PC based video technology and would like to become more educated. What has driven me to this state is my immediate desire to convert some Quicktime video into something that Windows Media Player can recognise. This is a file I have downloaded from the Internet and it will not play. I do not want to download Quicktime for this one file. Another aspect of web based video that drives me crazy is getting video files from people that play on Windows Media Player in a little 1" by 1" viewing screen. Increasing the screen size simply decreases the resolution of the video so one is forced to watch the video with their face pressed up against the monitor. There must be a way to take that file and enlarge it w/o sacraficing the resolution. Which brings me to this forum. Does Sonicfoundry have a product that will hlep me do what I asked above or am I in over my head. What about websites that can give someone like me a beginners introduction to the technology. Thanks for any information.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/21/2003, 6:51 PM

Sonic Foundry software uses the codecs contained in Apple's QuickTime player to load, display, and render QuickTime (.MOV) files. If you want to work with QuickTime files, you'll have to load Apple's player. You should also do a full install with the authoring tools (it's free) instead of the simple player install. QuickTime plays very nicely and you can even tell it not to take over any file type associations.

The loss of resolution you mention occurs when the media file is created at that small size. There's nothing you can do to reverse this unless you get access to the original higher resolution file. It's the same sort of thing that happens when you look at a newspaper picture through a magnifying glass; you see the dots get bigger, not more detail. In order to see more detail you'd have to get the original photo the newspaper used.