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Rendering WM9 for Mac?
Does anyone know the proper settings for rendering a movie in Windows Media 9 format that will make it look good on a Mac? The movie looks great on a PC, but if I open it on a Mac it looks like apes**t. (Horrible resolution.)
Thing is, if I render in H.264 format to make it look good on the Mac, and then use Flip4Mac on the Mac to convert it back to WM9 format, then *that* WM9 file looks great on both PC and Mac! But I want to render directly from the PC to make it usable on both PC and Mac without having to do it twice.
(And for all you Mac users – No, the answer is not “Get a Mac!” 😉 I’m stuck with the PC solution, and need a way to get this to work.)
Anybody?
Knut Högvall
Documentation Manager
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In our experience, it’s not the transcoder that is giving you trouble. It’s the Macintosh WMV Player.
If you are decoding with Flip4Mac to play in QT, you are seeing a different result than you will get viewing the same file played in the Microsoft WMV player.bogiesan
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there is a setting in quicktime that may help you.
open quicktime, choose preferences and make sure that the option for ‘use high-quality video setting’ is checked.
why this is not the default setting, i have no idea….
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[Kevin Camp] “open quicktime, choose preferences and make sure that the option for ‘use high-quality video setting’ is checked.
“Doh!
Please let us know if you get this figured out. The whole WMV topic comes up way too often around here and there are so many different ways to approach the various issues. Your experience and progress will help with future inquiries.
bogiesan
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Thanks for your input.
I’ll look into things further, and see if I can find some way other than the workaround I already mentioned. After searching the forums it seems I would get the same problem if I tried reversing the workflow, only at the other end.
Regards,
Knut Högvall
Documentation Manager
Polystar OSIX -
After trawling the forums for similar reported problems, I gathered it might be the built-in AE transcoder that was the cause. So instead of rendering in AE, I instead tried rendering the comp in Adobe Media Encoder, and it solved the problem. The resolution quality is now great on Mac, too.
The file size is still double of what I get if I render in Flip4Mac, though…
Knut Högvall
Documentation Manager
Polystar OSIX
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