Game Tape Exchange can upload and download 2 types of video files - Windows Media Files and MPEG-4 H.264 files (with an "avi" extension). What you receive from Game Tape Exchange depends on what your opponent sent to them. You may need to be able to handle both formats. With TD Video, you can create H.264 files to upload to Game Tape Exchange.
WMV as you might guess is a Windows Media Video file format. If your opponent is using APEX to process their video, you're likely to get WMV files from them.
If you receive WMV files from an opponent, you will need software to translate these to QuickTime movies. Microsoft endorses Flip4Mac WMV from Telestream. To translate files you'll need the $29 Pro version of Flip4Mac. You can purchase Flip4Mac WMV Pro at www.telestream.com. If you want to send WMV files to Game Tape Exchange, you'll need Flip4Mac WMV Studio ($49).
H.264 is a varient of MPEG-4 that produces compact and high fidelity video. A varient of this file format is used by newer high definition camcorders to store their video. You can export a MPEG-4 H.264 file directly from TD Video that can be uploaded to Game Tape Exchange. You need to change its file extension to ".avi" first so their system will process it correctly.
To view H.264 files from Game Tape Exchange, you'll need to install software from Perian. You can get it for free from www.perian.org.
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You can import multiple camera angles into TD Video. Just do one after the other. Don't enter Quarter data until you're finished importing video and trimming it into individual clips.
You'll want to wait until you have imported all of your Game Tape Exchange video before you enter data describing Quarters in the game. You might realize that TD Video moves video clips from folder to folder when you change the Quarter for a play. You'll need to import your video and Trim It into individual clips before TD Video will let you change the Quarter.
As you'll notice as you read this, internet video exchange involves changing your video from one format to another for upload and also after downloading. This requires lots of processing power. You will want to use a modern Macintosh to do this. You may see some benefit from running the latest version of Mac OS X too.