Rather URGENT question on exporting a file to work in Window Media Player

[Steve Connor]

You can always export an Mpeg 1 from compressor, that will work in QuickTime and in WMP!

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Debe]

You need an app that will convert to WMV, like Popwire’s WMV Component or Flip4Mac.

Popwire is less expensive, but F4M has more options. Head-to-head comparisons show no real huge difference in quality between the two at default settings. If all you need is to convert to WMV, then Popwire is probably enough. If you think you’ll need more options, then Flip4Mac is probably your best bet.

debe

[David Bogie]

popwire or flip4mac from telestream

These are QT export components, not free. You can google them or search here, the question comes up daily. Depedning on your machine and settings, exporting via Compressor to WMP can be a 6-to-1 ratio so you’ll need lots of time.

Look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your best bet is to find someone who understands their needs and can deliver in the time constraints, which are totally absurd. If you do not understand the process of providing the correct image formats and bitrates and can talk to their webhead in his/her language, you’re dead. If your client doesn’t understand bandwidth, lowest common denominators, target machines and the trade offs between image quality and file size, you’re just as dead.

Hire it done.

bogiesan

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

[Ed Dooley]

And also make sure you know what they mean when they say “stream”. True streaming video will
not work on a regular everyday http web site, it needs to be on a streaming server. If what they/you
mean is that the video will play after enough of it is buffered, then that’s progressive download video.
The WMV *and* QT route is a good one.
Ed

[David Bogie]

[Ed] “The WMV *and* QT route is a good one.”

We’re hearing more an more on all of the forums about folks using only Flash video on Websites. “Everyone has Flash” and “the quality is acceptable” seem to be the mantras. Our encoding experiments with Flash video are less than encouraging but to be able to mount only one version of our videos is enticing.

bogiesan

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

[Ian Ian]

Just bought the flip4mac studio package and it didn’t do the trick for me. you can’t adjust anything and the wmv file turned out huge! A 4 min. film took over an hour to come out and looked terrible. So in the end I exported the films to video tape, went to a friend with a PC imported the films in windows movie maker and exported them as WMV files which was a matter of minutes. So safe yourself a lot of troubles and headaches and find a friend with a Windows PC

[Debe]

Ian-

I’m not an experienced F4M user, but I KNOW you can make all kinds of adjustments in your compression in F4M. I’ve watched a client do it on his copy of F4M.

You must’ve missed an option button somewhere.

Go back and look again, or perhaps an experienced F4M user will point you in the right direction.

debe

[Jeff Newton]

thanks guys for the help..I ended up purchasing the $30 program from Popwire and it worked great…thank you so much…you guys helped me make my deadline.

jeff.

Jeff Newton
https://www.jeffnewton.com

[Jeff Newton]

thats actually an interesting idea…would I be able to import my quicktime/windows media player file directly into Flash and convert it. Flash is the one freakin’ program that thought would be awesome to learn but never had a chance.

thanks, Jeff.

Jeff Newton
https://www.jeffnewton.com

[Jeff Newton]

after going to both sites I decided that it looked like popwire was the best..the description on flips site seemed wrong for some reason…I paid the $30 for the Popwire WMV9 export and it worked great…exactly what I was looking for…

Jeff.

Jeff Newton
https://www.jeffnewton.com