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Unread postby Mecham » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:51 pm

I have a question. Why is it that Mac and PC have such a hard time working together? I have been looking for HOURS trying to find a program that allows me to convert a wmv file to mov. It is just too difficult to find. Oh and its not Apple's fault. In order to make some pc people happy, they made a who program called Virtual PC.

I may come off sounding rough, im not at all. I was smiling the whole time i wrote this. I am actually at the Double Tree Hotel. I just think they should make pc files and mac files more compatible and not have triffac jams all the time. Ground control anyone?

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Unread postby SKOT » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:01 am

i have converted .mov to .mpg to use a couple videos from stabhocsprung (spelling??) in a power point presenation using Adobe Premiere. i dont know if they make an apple version of that program though.

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Unread postby Mecham » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:21 am

I can do that kind of stuff easy, its this dumb Windows Media File!! GRR :mad: WMV. to .MOV
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Unread postby Mecham » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:54 am

I finally got it to work. Ugh, the only thing is there is a big "MEDIA CONVERTED BY _____________"


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Unread postby vaultmd » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:58 pm

If you just want to play the *.wmv file on a Mac, there is a Mac version of Windows Media, and it's free.

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Unread postby MightyMouse » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:46 pm

Its crazy how difficult it is to play 1 file on another platform without shelling out lots of $$$, I guess Bill Gates was really pissed of at Apple. It almost drove me insane when i worked on a project last month. I feel your pain
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Unread postby Mecham » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:46 pm

vaultmd wrote:If you just want to play the *.wmv file on a Mac, there is a Mac version of Windows Media, and it's free.
lol, i know i have Windows Media for Mac. Its getting into Power Point for mac that was the trouble.
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