Article:		Digital Still Cameras for QuickTime Movies, Part Two
Subject:		converting avi
Date:		2001-10-31 05:06:31
From:		bradrice
I have a fujifilm finepix 4700. The camera captures 80 seconds of movie clips but they are avi. On OS9 Quicktime 4 Pro would open these clips fine. I haven't been able to open them in Quicktime 5 for OSX. Is there a utility to convert avi to mov for OSX? Brad Rice

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• converting avi
  2001-10-31 09:10:55  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  Hmmm, QT Pro 5 shouldn't have a problem with those files unless there's a curve ball in there somewhere that I don't know about.
  
  Do you try to open the .avi file from within QuickTime, or by double-clicking on the file itself?
  
  What happens when you attempt? Do you get a message?
  
  Are you using Mac OS X 10.1?
  
  Post a little more info and we'll try to figure it out. Anyone else run into this problem?
  
• converting avi
  2001-10-31 11:14:28  bradrice [View]
  
  
  Yes I am on OSX 10.1. If I double click on it or if I do an open I get a plain white screen in QuickTime 5. As a matter of fact I get a message stating there is no decompressor for this format when I try to open it. I thought it had something to do with QuickTime 5 not having a avi decompressor for OSX. Isn't avi an Intel compression format. I think OS9 has an indeo System extension. I have QuickTime Pro 4 for OS9 and it opens them fine. But I would like to stay in OSX 10.1.
• converting avi
  2001-10-31 11:49:58  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  That does sound odd. If you have an iTools account, why don't you put a sample file in your Public folder and send me an e-mail with your mac.com URL. I'll take a look at it and report back here.
• converting avi
  2001-11-12 10:02:26  bradrice [View]
  
  
  My bad. I hadn't registered my copy of QuickTime 5 for OSX yet. After I did, it opened .avi files fine.
• distribution
  2001-10-31 11:17:33  bradrice [View]
  
  
  I was wondering about distribution. I created a Quicktime show in Live Slide Show. I copied it onto a hybrid CD with an Autorun for the PC portion. I placed the windows version of Quicktime player on the CD in case the destination pc didn't have it. On PCs with quicktime installed it runs fine. On a PC without Quicktime it wouldn't launch, even with the player on the cd. Is there a way to distribute the movie and the Quicktime player to run on PCs without it installed?
• distribution
  2001-11-01 00:10:38  Derrick Story | [View]
  
  
  To my knowledge, you can't set up a CD to auto-run a QuickTime movie on a computer that doesn't have QuickTime installed.
  
  QuickTime consists of many technologies that have to be installed in the operating system of the computer before they can be accessed.
  
  The safest route to go is to provide a link on the CD to the QuickTime site so that people can easily jump over there, grab the latest version, and install it.