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Flip4mac
Hi,
I purchased flip4mac in the hopes that i can capture and edit clips in FCP 4.5 for
faculty at my college to be able to use in a PC Powerpoint.
It is for them not me, I just make the clips. I thought it would be as easy as
all the normal steps and then exporting -using quicktime conversion -0export as
windows media player. All goes well,until i bring it over to a PC and when I
try to insert in a powerpoint, it tells me that my quicktime format is not set up correctly.
I don’t understand, the clips says .wvm and looks and acts like windows media.
Anyone tried this yet?G4 dual 1.25 all OSX 10.3.8 – FCP 4.5, Flip4mac PRO
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5 Replies
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Hi Scott,
Just to clarify. You’re WMV file with Flip4Mac out of FCP? You said you’re getting a message in PowerPoint that
[scott] “my quicktime format is not set up correctly”
Have you actually created a WMV file?
What version WMV Player does your PC actually have?Can you post your settings in Flip4Mac (Standard or Advanced/frame size, etc for example)?
To be safe and check work flow I’d recommend creating a QuickTime Reference movie in FCP and then doing the convert to WMV in QuickTime Pro (and it doesn’t tie up FCP that way). Then check your file on the PC using WMV Player.
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Yes and make sure you add a .wmv extension to it too. If I remember correctly, F4M doesn’t add it by default but I could be wrong.
I’ve had nothing but great success using this little tool. I highly recommend it to anyone’s workflow that requires sending WMV files straight from your FCP timeline (the vast majority of my clients are Windows based so this makes life easier for me). The only downside I see with F4M is that it can be a little slow to encode sometimes… even on a G5.
I do wish there were settings for cropping though. That would be a nice addition.
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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A LITTLE slow? Ahem, try an eternity. Very handy tool, yes, and I have a lot of clients like Marco who are on PCs. But I’ll tell you what, Compression Master3 is much faster, pllus it does beautiful mpeg4s as well. Well worth the price.
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[Chris Poisson] “But I’ll tell you what, Compression Master3 is much faster”
This looks enticing. I’m not so much interested in their stand-alone app, but their $30 export encoder looks great. I just need something easy to spit WMVs out of the FCP timelines. And the GUI looks very similar to F4M! Still doesn’t appear to have a cropping option though! Grrrrr. I’ll definitely have to try this out. I have to believe it runs faster than F4M!!!
Marco Solorio | OneRiver Media
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Marco,
My guess is about 30% faster, but you will love it for the mpeg4s. Unbelievable. And I believe it has cropping, you apply a preset, then control click on it and go down to edit job, and you have access to everything.
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