.MOV vs. MPEG-4

[eisman82]

We have an animation submission that says that it is a .mov file - however when we upload it we are being told that it is a MPEG-4 file. Can anyone clue me in as to what may be happening?

[KGood]

Didn't you post this in the Technical forums too?

[Bharat Nain]

Did you post this in the Technical forums too?

Moderators note: I deleted the other duplicate thread.

[Mark Rozitis]

We have an animation submission that says that it is a .mov file - however when we upload it we are being told that it is a MPEG-4 file. Can anyone clue me in as to what may be happening?

google out G-spot video codec appliance and once you have that on you're system open you're video file in there and it will tell you what it is.

I'm just getting into all this MPEG-4/H:264 .mov stuff myself but if I open a .mov it will show this file to be H:264 which is in the MPEG-4 container.

I'm still using MPEG-2 for what I shoot for the news but MPEG-4 is the direction I've been pointed in as well and I do remember opening .mov in GSPOT and it showing status MPEG-4 h:264.

So I am thinking that perhaps there is nothing wrong with what you're seeing.

My challenge is to make mpeg-4 broadcast quality files as small or smaller than mpeg-2!