Formatting a movie for PC on a Mac

Squamish
Have you considered going old school and burning a DVD?
Might be the best and easiest answer. Most all schools have DVD players, monitors or projectors.

Hope this helps, Greg

Hi Greg,

Your suggestion made me smile: a DVD was where this whole project started out. My problem was that it's a fairly big file and to get it onto a DVD required much compression and therefore a large loss of detail. At that time the group behind this wanted to use my video to sell for fundraising. I squashed that idea because the quality of the test DVDs I burned wasn't high enough that I was willing to release it.

Now the same video is intended to be used for presentations in schools so I'm not as concerned about the quality since this is not being offered for sale. This was discussed in detail in a previous thread.

I have managed to get another much smaller video test file onto a USB2 memory stick and run it on a really old PC. Having had success with that I'll keep trying to make this approach work a little longer. Hopefully I won't get to the point of deciding "you can't get there from here" because I am committed to helping out. So it's onward & upward for now...

Thanks

I don't trust anything but Flip4Mac. If I'm making a living, and dealing with clients, I want some real, qualified tech support handy for the product.

Wow Ben
I thought Flip4Mac died.
See they haven't. Not used it in long time.

thanks, Greg

Squamish
How big is the file?
DVDs = 4.7GBs and DL/DVDs are good for ~8.5GBs.
Most players can handle DL/DVDs.
Then there is Blu-ray Disc @ ~ 25GBs. Of course not all schools have BD players.
Just dubious of a USB2 thumb drive, some are real cr@p and none are that fast for playback.

Hope it works out.
Greg

Copy the file to their system drive, play it, then delete it from their system drive.