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Convert from Quicktime Movie to Windows Media File
I have a series of 3-4 minute videos that I am editing in FCP but when I sent the QuickTime movies to the client they say they need to have Windows Media Files. I have viewed other posts that say to use the Flip4Mac but it looks like that’s for converting wmv to mov. Does it work the other way as well, or is there another way to simply change the .mov to .wmv?
Thanks ahead of time!
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Flip4Mac is primarily used to transcode Quicktime movies to WMV files, not the other way around as you have mentioned.
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Thanks Guys!!
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You need to upgrade your flip4mac from trial version. Then in quicktime you can export it to wmv.
Good Day
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You can export to WMV with Flip4Mac. You need one of the studio versions (which are NOT free). It works well. Look at the capabilities of each version and decide what you need.
https://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm
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Not the answer you’re looking for, but I’ve got my fcp computer connected to a windows comuter that’s running Super © (https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html). It’s not extremely user friendly, but it’s free and good enough for converting quicktime into internet and mobile phone content, like 3gp, swf, flv, mpeg1, wmv, etc, etc.
As said, it’s windows only so not at all the answer you’re looking for but perhaps it is of use to you.
Btw, doesn’t mpeg streamclip still require flip4mac to export wmv?
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As an aside…
When I export from FCP through Quicktime/Flip4Mac to .wmv I find that I need to add about a +10 gamma to match the image I see in QT.
Anybody else have the same experience?
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I believe Mpeg Streamclip can do this for you too… and Visual Hub (if it still exists out there) is one of the most user friendly programs I’ve ever used for conversions… there’s even several websites that do media conversion now too “google” media convert and you’ll find a few (I’ve never used them, not sure how reliable they are, probably slow).
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FCP uses different default gamma than QT player. There is a preference in QT to use the FCP gamma, if you so desire.
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Thanks for the information. I wonder, though, if that responds to my question. I don’t have an issue with the appearance of the QuickTime files that I encode (usually with Episode). It’s the .wmv files that I encode through QuickTime conversion using Flup4Mac. Those are the ones that need the gamma adjustment.
Wouldn’t a gamma setting in QuickTime (to match FCP gamma) affect both of those outputs…when the wmv’s are the only ones that seem off? Or am I not understanding this?
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