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

[John]

Ian,

There is certainly and advantage to finding a friend with a PC. We have an old NT with a Osprey card that we capture anything that needs to be turned around in realtime. Having Flip4mac available in compressor really comes in handy when you’re working in FCP and at the end of the day you need to make WMV files of all 10 of your timelines and the client wants a high and low version of each. Set the batch and when you come in the next day your 20 WMV files are all finished. Regarding the time to compress I have discovered that choosing variable bit rate (VBR) encodes faster. The down side it that if you will be eventually streaming this file you will want to choose constant bit rate (CBR). CBR files stream better than VBR.

John