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Comunicating with PC
Hi everyone.
I have this 15 miniutes edit in DV PAL. My client wants now a video clip that can be read on any PC. I
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18 Replies
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Purchase Flip4Mac and give the client a WMV file
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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Thank you Walter
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If you end up doing this often (and billing your client for transcoding services) buy a cheap PC and load up Microsoft’s free Windows Media Encoder.
bogiesan
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[bogiesan] “If you end up doing this often (and billing your client for transcoding services) buy a cheap PC and load up Microsoft’s free Windows Media Encoder.”
Just curious why you would do this over a $99 plug-in?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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He did say, ” video clip that can be read on any PC”
So I agree Walter that Flip4Mac is cool software,,, but why not encode it to mpg1,, is WMV totaly mpg1 compliant, I have clients still using 2000 era PC’s… I know Mpeg1 is PC compliant back to dirty old DOS… How far back is WMV usable? WMV9 is not to ugly done right.
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[edit] “but why not encode it to mpg1”
Because the quality is incredibly poor and the file sizes are fairly large.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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As we all know, any Intel Mac can run Windows
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
[Steve Eisen] “As we all know, any Intel Mac can run Windows”
yes, they can and I would strong recommend installing a second harddrive internal to the machine if you want to do that, or at least create two good sized partitions on your main drive.
I’m still going with the $99 plug-in. 🙂
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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“Because the quality is incredibly poor and the file sizes are fairly large.”
You are talking about WMV prior to #9 right??
I have always found the opposite. That to make a decent WMV file the files size is as big or bigger than Mpg1 and it is not “PC video player compliant on the older machines” granted some of my clients are gov’t and mid size coporate that do not need or have available the latest PC and PC software. And I use mpg1 for Video CDs always at quarter frame.
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[edit] “You are talking about WMV prior to #9 right??”
MPEG-1
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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