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Exporting DNxHD material for Windows Media Palyer
I’ve completed an HD project, edited in DNxHD… Looks terrific.
Shot 720p / 50fps (PAL project) at 1280X720.The client wants to put these several clips (2-3 minutes) on a Disk-on-key so it can be played on any computer with Windows Media Player.
I’ve tried exporting the clips as AVIs and they play wonderfully on my computer, but on my test desktop (windows media player 11)the video freezes or skips and gets kinda jerky. Don’t know why.
I’m assuming the best export would be to Window Media Player, but there are so many options I don’t know how to navigate this to get the right export.
Any suggestions?
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AVI is a container just like MOV. It can house 100+ codecs in there so since we don’t know what you put in there, it’s impossible to say why it didn’t work well. That aside, you’d have to use a codec that was native to the OS, and none of those is suitable for HD video playback.
As for WMV, choose a video bitrate around 4-5 Mbps, and an audio bitrate around 192-320kbps. Windows Media 9 as your video codec. This should give a universal file that will play on any decent machine with WMV on it.
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Thank you for the reply.
I used Mircosoft Windows Media Video as the codec choice from the Avid (AVI export). I thought (no doubt incorrectly) that this would make the video compatible for Windows Media Player… I’m still learning this end of editing ( I started my off-line editing career with CTC 3/4″ in “another universe”).
I appreciate your advice and i will try the parameters you suggested for the WMV. Thanks.
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You cannot put a WMV codec successfully into an AVI container. It must go into a WMV container. This is probably why its not working for you. I don’t know if Avid can export into a WMV container. I’ve never tried. You can do it in Squeeze though.
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Avid can indeed export as .wmv. Should see it as one of your choices on the export dropdown. Your Help file should have more details.
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Steve, thanks for your information.
Yes I saw the Windows Media Player export option. A more experienced user may have known which parameters to use as there were many choices.
In the end I exported as a DNxHD media file. Then I used Sorensen Squeeze to create a WMV version. I followed what Perrone had suggested above, with a couple of modifications and after a couple of “bugs” I had to “kill”, I got a very good quality WMV clips that, as my client wanted “will play on ANY PC with Windows Media Player”… frankly the VLC player is a much better and free download, but he wouldn’t here it.
Being a neophyte with exporting to WMV, no doubt I added a step (and lost time) by doing it this way… just something else for me to learn.
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