QuickTime Puzzle, Could Use Help

Jay Gladwell wrote on 2/5/2008, 10:33 AM

Why a .mov file work on one computer and not another (both have QuickTime, but different versions). Is it as simply as versions of the player?

The file was generated from ProAnimator.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Comments

Former user wrote on 2/5/2008, 10:41 AM

What codec was used? Older versions don't support h264.

Dave T2

Jay Gladwell wrote on 2/5/2008, 10:43 AM

Okay, I found what the problem was. Seems that ProAnimator creates a file with the same name and extension plus ".#res".

So a file named test_logo.mov would have an accompanying file named test_logo.mov.#res. In order the player to recognize the file the .#res file has to be in the same folder.

What's the .#res file's function?

Kennymusicman wrote on 2/5/2008, 11:27 AM

When exporting from quicktime, you can either save as a self-contained, or edit file. Perhaps proanim is picking up on this. So the proanim is essentially exporting an "edit" file and leaving the resources for the file as the .#res file?

Depends on size of .mov file - if it's tiny, then good chance ^^^ is true. You could open it up in quicktime, and then export as self-contained and then it would be more transportable.

DOn't have experience with proanim - so just guessing here

Jay Gladwell wrote on 2/5/2008, 1:54 PM

That wasn't it, Kenny. Sorry!