Exporting a flash CS4 movie to Quicktime

Greetings:
I am exporting a flash movie to quicktime format. It exports but then does not save the blue progress bar goes to the end and then just stays there. It never completes. I have to stop in order to exit the export. I have tried all kinds of work arounds and problem solving to no avail. If anyone can help email me at [email protected]

Actually there is no QuickTime video format, rather there are video formats that the Quicktime video player will display... including .mov and .m4v files.
And as mentioned, its dang near impossible to display the video directly in the email itself. I'd say the best you could do is to provide a LINK to an HTML page. So create that page with just the video in one single <div> container.
And since you want to use a QT format... why would you want to forsake all the Windows users that may not have the QT browser pluggin???? Why do you think Flash is so successful and popular??
So how about this as an option... use the .m4v format (the iProducts version of the mp4) and use a video player that will play that in both iProducts and regular Windows browsers as well??
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players
Sample of .m4v video that plays in IE as well as iProducts:
http://exploreolympics.com/reports/?p=3499
Test the videos on both Windows IE and iProducts... the player does a GREAT job.
I used QuickTime Pro and "Export for Web" to convert the video.... and am VERY happy with results.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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