Flip4mac v’s Popwire

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac Universal is in beta. Encoding times for version 2.1 should be many times faster than 2.0.2. I’ll probably be doing speed tests on the next build or so as I’m a beta tester.

Keep in mind Flip4Mac has a range of products which can encode right on up to WMV HD. Flip4Mac can also wrap WMV in MOV (no compression loss) if you need to edit WMVs in FCP also.

[Michael Calvino]

How can I get my hands on it…?

Will be needing to encode wmv in the next 2 weeks.

[Craig Seeman]

Head thisaway
https://www.flip4mac.com/fusetalk/forum/

[Chris Poisson]

Well,

Until now, Compression Master was about twice as fast as F4M, so we’ll have to wait and see. This morning I did about 14 1-2 minute movies from DVNTSC to 512k and 56k streaming WMV movies in about half an hour with CM3. So go figure.

CM# is just fantastic, except of cource for one glaring glitch, there are still muxing errors going on in DVDSP with it’s m2v files, but I know they are working on it.

Have a wonderful day.

[David Bogie]

If you need to make a bunch of WMV a tthe best quality, buy a cheap PC that will run Windows WMP encoding suite. It’s free and super fast. Using the not-inexpensive Mac tools is fun and it feels right but it’s silly to tie up a perfectly good Mac to spit out .wmv when a $200 PC will do it for you for free.

And be aware of the restrictions on the file formats you get out of both of these products. Read the fine print carefully. You may not be able to create files your PC users can actually use.
Umm, we use Flip4Mac and it takes for freakin’ ever! My dual 2.7 (non-core) G5 took more than 10 hours to encode less than 30 minutes of DV material.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Mitch Ives]

[Craig Seeman] “Flip4Mac Universal is in beta. Encoding times for version 2.1 should be many times faster than 2.0.2. I’ll probably be doing speed tests on the next build or so as I’m a beta tester.”

Craig,

See if you can get them to fix the terminal bug in 2.0.2 that makes multi-pass generate green video. We have to use single pass as the official workaround. It’s been 3 months and still no fix nor any commitment to have it in the next release. This is NOT a small thing… makes version 2 pretty much useless…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

Apple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5

[Michael Calvino]

so basically their is no solution to WMV encoding on the
intel mac platform?