Flip4Mac So what are you going to do if you are asked to provide video content to a website within a corporation which only supports Windows. A corporation which has blocked out the use of Quicktime! Windows Media my friends, Windows media. I was asked to take a DVD and post the content on a hospital website. Let’s see….3 GB shrunken down to a web viewable video. Well I used the GPL’d app HandBrake to rip it to mp4. Quicktime opened it up but it will not export to Windows media. D’oh. Hey… along comes Flip4Mac Studio. Flip4mac allows all your Windows media files to be opened up in Quicktime, and, it plugs right into Quicktime Pro 6.5>. It provides a multitude of features as well as integrating into Safari. I was able to export to a Windows media file small enough to view on the corporation’s website with IE6 viewed via Windows Media Video 9 player. This ability to customize your output has such great advantages. Bandwidth limitations, server space allocation, etc… On my PowerBook 1.5, I took a 2.5 GB DVD, exported it to a mp4 file created via the HandBrake app, and shrunk it down to a viewable 15 MB file via Flip4Mac Studio. Ok, so it works very well exporting, how about day to day use watching those annoying wmv files you get from your Windows friends. Each link opened up the Windows media file in Quicktime without a hiccup. Browsing wmv files with Safari did the same. Take that Firefox. Check out the Flip4Mac website to see all its attributes, but from my experience using it for the first time…. no probs here. You can talk about sampling rates, variable bit rates, but to the “beer in one hand, mouse in the other” Mac web constructor, it works. Period.