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WMA 10 Pro Encoding on a Mac
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I’ve you sure you looked through WME carefully. Windows Media Audio 10 Professional is available. If may depend on how you’re setting it up though since it may not be available if you’re starting with certain presets.
Dual boot is a good thing. I do it too for the very same reasons. If Squeeze for Windows can do it that would give you more input options since WME can be finicky over the type of source files it can handle.
BTW, I did send a message to Telestream about 10 Pro support. I noticed it’s not there in Episode either.
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It’s possible that I just overlooked the setting since I was rushing.
Squeeze for Windows and dual booting it is. Any idea if the ON2 VP6 plugin I bought yesterday for the Mac version of Sorenson can be transferred over to the new PC copy I have to buy?
Thanks for contacting Telestream. 10 Pro support would indeed be a nice update.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
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Looks like the solution will now be a dedicated PC for encoding.
Opinions on specs I should look for? What do you think of this Dell?
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
If time is money I’d consider getting an 8 core beast.
If you want an ultimate Window Media encoder consider Microsoft Expressions encoder.
For all around I’d suggest Telestream Episode over Squeeze but they are both good and both cross platform so compressionists bouncing between Mac and Windows won’t have to learn an new interface.
If your needs are light the the free Windows Media Encoder is still good. Keeping “light” in mind a Core 2 Duo is fine if you don’t need it done “yesterday.” -
I don’t mean to ask the world of you, haha. I’m rushing around looking to. This project is suddenly rush.
$1000 to spend on PC.
I’m thinking 4GB RAM quad core 2ish GHz….trying to buy today!
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
And you have any experience with Gateway? I used to edit with Avid on a Dell, but my general thoughts on Gateway aren’t good. I don’t know that I have any particular reason to think that though…
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
Murphy’s law is at it again. Windows 7 release is tomorrow and most all computers are preloaded with Windows 7 and cannot be sold until tomorrow.
Awesome.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
OEM Windows 7 is already available. You can’t get that from Dell though since they’re the OEM in question. Many places sell OEM if you’re a system builder.
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Yeah, since I was in such a pinch I had to go to Best Buy to buy a PC, but they couldn’t sell me one since they updated their stock with only Windows 7 machines.
Luckily I have a PC that I had to buy in college which was up to the task of these encodes. Although yesterday was chaotic, it’s turned out for the better since I now can find a computer that better suites our needs here.
I guess Windows 7 isn’t officially supported by Sorenson yet, so I’m hesitant to run it. Also, I didn’t see any info on Sorenson’s sight, but do they support 64-bit systems?
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse
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