On my laptop pc running windows I have; made a short anim that I rendered in Lightwave. I rendered it out as frames. On my G4 Macintosh I have; done some batch-work in Photoshop, imported the frames in Flash MX and added a few extras like fading text and such. I exported the file as a Quicktime movie, leaving me with a 12 seconds long movie file (3,2mb), that I can view with Quicktime on both my mac and pc. So far so good. The problem I've got is that when I send the file as an attachement via email, my friends can not view it with Quicktime player on their pc's running Windows. I tried different compressions while exporting from Flash MX (divx, avi, Mpg4, Quicktime,...) but none of them will play on a Windows machine. They get an error message saying it is not a movie file. After sending the mail I can view it in my 'send items' and I get a window within my email where I can play the movie... Does anyone know why my friends can't view my movie? Thanks in advance, Mike

if the original movie file is on yer mac, save it with the appropriate 3-letter extension, then zip the file and attach it as movie.zip, e.g. if it ain't zipped, the mail app at the other end may decode it wrong.

F*ck, forgot about extension stuff... Had some similar problems in the past with exporting lwo/obj- files without typing extensions... Gonna try it with added extension and zip it with stuffit deluxe... Then send it... Thanks Miss

or use finder file command "create archive" in OS X. zipping files is native to os x now. stuffit not needed.

Actually, you don't have to zip it - just make sure it has the .mov extension and you're good to go.
If their server doesn't kick them off while downloading (I've had cable for years, now FIOS - not a problem for me, but those who have dial-up...), they can play it.

-Lew ;-)