MOV vs AVI please help me decide?

[mitchelt]

I am creating a Macromedia Director piece for an interactive CD-ROM, it's going to be 12-15 individual minute or so video clips, which file format will be more likely viewable by most PC users?

Once I decided on the format, should I stick with Sorenson for MOV and CinePak for AVI? Are those standard compressors?

Thanks for the help!

Mitch

 

[SilverBack]

By far and large, most Windows based PC's will have an AVI codec installed.
MOV was meant originally for MACs and was ported over to PC's.

Best bet AVI

 

[LethalWolfe]

I agree w/what SilverBack said. But I'd just like to add that, IMO, Sorenson is a better codec than CinePak and you could always include the quicktime viewer on the CD so people w/o QT could install it. But in the grand tradition of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) making a AVI would be the simplest way to go.


Lethal