THE GREAT DIVIDE
The Halloween Documents |
The MSBC Superlist of Anti-Microsoft Web Sites |
MacAttacked! |
A Hundred Computer Related One-Liners |
Windows NT comes of age |
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| Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism By JAMES GLEICK |
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"I've got nothing against Macs -MAKING MOVIES PLAYABLE ON BOTH MACINTOSH AND WINDOWS ---------------------------------------------------- To make a movie playable on a PC, on a Macintosh open a movie file using the Movie Converter utility (part of the QuickTime Starter Kit 1.0) and choose Save As (File menu). In the resulting dialog box, click the radio button labeled 'Make movie self-contained' which tells the utility to sever any links to other movies after incorporating the relevant video into this movie. Also select the checkbox labeled 'Playable on non-Apple computers'. This causes the movie to be saved as a single forked movie. The resulting movie is cross-platform and is still in the QuickTime file format. Once you save the movie, it will be playable on both Macs and PCs without further translation or file conversion. Before you transfer the movie to a PC, remember to give it a filename that is no longer than 8 characters, plus the extension .MOV for example, MYMOVIE.MOV.
Those eager beavers at the Justice Dept could well pay some attention to the Adobe/Apple dominance of the commercial DTP industry. Here in NYC and elsewhere it being virtually impossible to obtain high quality color output of PC files. There is some glitch that appears insoluble in the color handling. A PC originated tiff, say, looks perfect on the Mac screen but prints wack. The Mac solution - refuse to touch PC files.