• Adobe After Effects

  Bad Quality WMV

  Posted by Caleb Armstrong on September 22, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  I don’t do a lot of work for presentation or web, but have a client who would like a WMV version of something I produced so that they can insert it into a powerpoint presentation.

  To be honest, compression isn’t my strongest suit, and I’ve run the project through Squeeze with every basic WMV setup they offer and the quality is pretty poor. The ins and outs of bit rate, etc. are still a bit murky to me so I’m sure that there’s something that I could be doing to make these WMV files look better.

  The project was assembled in AE, I rendered a lossless file out and moved that into FCP to mix the audio. Should I be burning out another lossless file and running that through squeeze? I’m sure that it’s not the most efficient workflow, or even the correct workflow, but the MOV files that I crank out have great quality and the WMVs still suck.

  Thanks for all the help!

  po****@***il.com

  Mike Clasby replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Clasby

  September 22, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  For the best quality wmv’s use Microsoft’s WMV Encoder, here:

  https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

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