Re: e-content movies

Thanks for the comments folks. I've was out of town for awhile so excuse my tardiness in getting back to this.

It seems like I'm getting the idea that if I post a Quicktime movie, both Quicktime for Mac and Quicktime for Windows will read it. Is that right? Before getting some feedback I was assuming I'd have to do a version for people with Macs and post a separate post for people with Windows machines.

I've got a Quicksilver dual 1 gig processor and use Final Cut Pro 3 to do videos and export them as Quicktime movies. This is the first time I've thought about posting these to the webs but I've got some problems. I haven't upgraded to QT 7 myself because I use OS X 2.8 and I'd lose functionality with some of my programs, so I havent' thought about trying to get it into QT7. I'm just looking for good quality with small size that the most-est players will play.

As for my current problems, the files for a two minute interview are coming in around 80 megs or so, at least if I want them of high enough quality to look decent on a computer screen. This doesn't seem right.

So, to sum up"
1) Do Mac and Windows Quicktime players read the same files?
2) Why doesn't FCP 3 save better quality movies for the size files I'm getting?
3) Yes, I know ... I don't know what I'm doing.

Thanks,
Richard