Hi, I have strung some animation together in QuickTime 6.3 and wish to make it playable on Macs using QuickTime 5 - but I cannot workout how to resave a QuickTime 6 movie into QuickTime 5. I have many codecs at my disposal for exporting purposes but they're confusing the hell out of me. I tried exporting out as a DivX AVI and then resaving as a .mov - yet somehow it still retains its QuickTime 6.3 format - deep down inside itself - and there are no options in QuickTime 6.3 Pro to resave down to an earlier version of QuickTime. Anyone have any suggestions on Resave or Export functions in QT 6 Pro? cheers =) clockwork

a ".mov" will play in quicktime 5 but the DIVX .avi most likely will not seeing as the newer codecs didnt exist when 5 was out. Just export the original file and make a Quicktime Movie which will give you the .mov extension. Hope that makes sense.

saverrio, I already have the .mov extension, but the entire animation is saved under QuickTime 6.3. If i then move it to a Mac with QuickTime 5 onboard and hit the Play button, the whole Mac freezes up. Example: download a movie preview from Apple's "Movie Trailer" site - http://www.apple.com/trailers/ even just a small one - and you'll need QuickTime 6.3 to view it - QuickTime 6.3 Pro to download it (the purchased version) - then shift it to another Mac using QuickTime 5 - it will freeze it. In other words - I can't fathom how to turn a QT 6.3 .mov file into a QT 5 .mov file. help? cheers clockwork

Clockwork, With the Pro version of QT 6.3 you can export the file to another format of Quicktime that can be readable by QT 4 and above, and will not require Pro versions to play. In the example you mention with a trailer form the Apple site; most of those I believe are encoded with Sorenson 3. You could export the trailer (or your own material) to "regualr Sorenson". The older version of Sorenson is playable on the non-pro versions of QT, and still offers very good aesthetic results with decent compression. Alternatively, if you have Roxio Toast Titanium installed, it provides Quicktime with an Mpeg-1 export plugin. Mpeg-1 can be played virtually on all systems. It's very "cross-platform" friendly. Good luck.

Wardley, Thankyou very much - I shall try this right now. (It's the agony of choice when looking through all those codecs in QT 6.3...) Converting to just Sorenson - will report success or failure. cheers cw

Hi Wardley, Results - interesting. Converted test QuickTime 6.3 .mov file to just Sorenson. Play back on QuickTime 5: Hit play - welll known QuickTime message appears that the movie is missing a QuickTime Component which is not available from the QuickTime site - and yet... it plays anyway! - but (and everyone has a huge but) - there's no sound. If I check its format settings (Apple-Command + J) - it does indeed claim to have CD quality audio (44.1 kHz - 16 bit - Stereo) - yet it is silent in play mode. Shall have to have a bit more of a play with plain Sorenson codec - first I need to back up all these DVD rips to DVD ;) thanks - I think you've put me on the right track Wardley cheers clockwork