AW: Flash or Quicktime?

[Colin Holgate]

On Feb 16, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> I am still a little bit puzzled with the technical background of H264.
> The QT7 player should support H264, but do I need a separate H264  
> codec
> installer to encode?


To export out of QuickTime Player at all you would need to have paid  
for QuickTime Pro, or be using a program that had a QuickTime export  
option (iMovie for example). H264 became an option when QuickTime 7  
came out, you wouldn't have to install anything extra to get it to work.

Your Sorenson Squeeze may have been an earlier version, or it may be  
because H264 is competition to the Sorenson codecs and it's not  
featured because of that. I have version 4.5 on my machine, and it  
does do H264.

The batch program someone mentioned was called Compression Master.  
It's an alternative to Sorenson Squeeze, and is able to export to  
Flash 8 video (that's the On2VP6 one, if you have paid for the extra  
Flash module), WMV, any QuickTime format, and others. It had a name  
change a while ago and is now known as Episode. It's not cheap though.  
If you just want to batch compress to WMV there are cheaper options.