ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

13 years ago - Tim Hague

Probably the best people to answer a question about Withoutabox is Withoutabox:
https://www.withoutabox.com/index.php?cmd=public.support

Also, you can always look at online conversion tools, like:
http://www.online-convert.com/

12 years, 12 months ago - Mark Brindle

Hi Claire
I'd would suggest you install QuickTime in the pc so you can view QuickTime files.
For conversion then MPEG streamclip
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html
is a great free conversion utility for mac and pc that lets you cross convert from one format to another. It can build qt files and various flavours of mpeg. QuickTime itself will convert between file formats too although you will be best to export from premier in the original codec (not wmv) then convert the larger better quality file to qt.
Regards
Mark

12 years, 12 months ago - Connor Snedecor

Yes, definitely download Quicktime, no one on a mac or PC should be doing anything film or video related without it. It's free. I would suggest you don't deal with flash or WMV, they are generally bad ideas for video distribution. You're uploading something you want to look highest quality, right? MPEG-1 is ancient and looks bad, FLV doesn't have good tools to control quality, and WMV, while like Quicktime in that it can carry lots of codecs, is more limited. It doesn't have the absolute bar-none industry standard for high quality, low-data-rate internet video that I'm sure withoutabox, vimeo, etc. all recommend - H.264. Pretty much every website you upload to wants an H.264 file, and Quicktime is the way.

Echoing MPEG Streamclip as a good way to convert things to it. Or if you have Premiere you may already have Adobe Media Encoder which can do it?

12 years, 12 months ago - Peter Hastie

Hi Claire, first off, there is no Adobe Premiere Pro 7. This I am sure is an honest error on your behalf, but also suggests you are not reading the related instructions that might solve your problem with due care. Secondly, I could be wrong, but no matter what version of Adobe Premiere Pro you are using, it is highly unlikely that it will upload to Withoutabox directly, so you will have to save a final version of your film to your hard drive before uploading, and if you are using Adobe Premiere as you say, you have a huge range of formats which you can save it in. WMV files and MPEG-1 files may work on some sites on some occasions, but they are very much out of date and you should be saving any files which you intend to upload to the net in H.264 (which has been an available option in Premiere for many years). I have no idea why you believe Quicktime files will not work on Windows 7 - Quicktime is a free download and available on all platforms - however there is absolutely no need to use Quicktime at all. I have come upon many an individual who with honest heart states, as above, that you need to use Quicktime for video files - this is simply a hangover from Macs dominating the film industry over the past decade and has no real world value for low and no budget filmmakers using a PC.

12 years, 12 months ago - Dan Selakovich

Off topic but; I'd avoid using Withoutabox. The former co-founder of the Los Angeles film festival hates withoutabox, and says he's never met a programmer that liked it.

12 years, 12 months ago - Stephanie Walton

A lot of festivals only accept submissions through withoutabox so it would be very hard to avoid using it entirely.

12 years, 12 months ago - Dennis Mabry

As Peter said, v7 of Adobe Premiere *Pro* doesn't exist, but apparently v7 of Adobe Premiere was released around 2003: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro. Perhaps that is the source of confusion? Depending on your installation of Premiere, you may also have Adobe Media Encoder available. I'm unsure of earlier versions (and if you are using software from 2003 this probably won't apply), but with Adobe Premiere CS6 for example, you export from Premiere directly into Adobe Media Encoder. This file may be an intermediate file that you then transcode for final delivery elsewhere (MPEG Streamclip, etc.) or you can export to .wmv directly from Adobe Media Encoder. It's possible to download a trial version, which I believe is fully functional for 30 days; you can also subscribe to Creative Cloud for one month (much less expensive -- https://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production.html). Of course, generally speaking, if you can use a free app, that's financially a better option and sometimes less expensive or free software can produce better output (high file quality and low file size) than expensive software.