enabling slider control of .wmv files

[David Roth weiss]

Yo ho Chris… You have to increase the number of keyframes. Go into the advanced dropdown and increase the number of keyframes per second to every 1 or 2 seconds and see if that helps…

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Chris Borjis]

will try that.

thanks David!

[David Roth weiss]

Windows Media Player seems to have completely lost its ability to scrub in its latest version. You can jump around using the scrub bar, but no realtime scrubbing. That’s a serious deficiency in my opinion. So, I’m afriad rasing the keyframes per second only works for Flash and QT.

David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY

[Chris Borjis]

What I really need to be able to do is this.

I launch a .wmv file.

It plays.

I grab the slider and move it from the 5 second mark
to the 45 second mark and it plays FROM the 45 second mark.

For some odd reason as I make them now, if I grab the slider
and move to the 45 second mark, it goes right back to
the 5 second mark. I in effect must watch the entire
clip in realtime, it won’t allow me to advance forward or back.

thats what I need to fix.

[Erik Pontius]

This is usually caused by the WMV file not being properly indexed. Ordinarily on a Win PC this can be resolved by using the Windows Media File Editor, which can simply re-index the file. Not sure what you’d do on the Mac.

Here’s some info on the problem:
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/knowledgecenter/mediaadvice/0064.mspx#EKG

Erik

[Chris Borjis]

Thanks for the tip!