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WMV
Is it possible to encode a WMV file from FCP?
If not is there a standalone app that can do it?
Thanks..
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11 Replies
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Michael,
Go to the link below and read about Flip4Mac. You can use it within FCP, Quicktime, Compressor 2 etc. or it can be used as a stand-alone app.
https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
– Don
“Please take a moment to fill out your profile, including your computer system and relevant software. Help us help you.”
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Also works in Cleaner and soon Squeeze again.
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I’ve found that Flip4Mac is very slow encoding. (12 min. video takes at least 24 min to encode). We have a quad G5 and it only uses one of the processors to convert.
Also, it’s pricey, at and our version doesn’t allow for customization.
I’ve heard of a couple other things like Popwire, which is 30 bucks, plus another one that I can’t remember right now, but you can search this forum and should find it.
-Matt
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[Onomontopeka] “Also, it’s pricey, at and our version doesn’t allow for customization.”
$99 is pricey? It’s one of the cheapest things I’ve ever had to purchase for our shop. If everything I needed was $99, I’d be a very happy business owner.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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dude, for us indy people, 100 bucks is a day of shooting!
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[ben] “dude, for us indy people, 100 bucks is a day of shooting!”
I am an indy, just look at my shop. paid for everything myself. Again, if everything was $100 I’d be a very very happy business owner.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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dude, 100 dollar everything would rule!
my last film only cost 600 bucks, and got into some pretty awesome short film festivals, including cinequest, its amazing how far you really can stretch cash if you try!
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For the price of the FCP Suite, they should include a wmv converter codec
in compressor. It may not be apple’s favorite, but I need it to be in there.Add up all those “cheap” extras and it starts sucking bad!
-Matt
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Okay, maybe it’s my age showing again…
…but… the first room I edited in back in 1992 cost over three quarters of a million dollars to build. …and then there were the yearly maintenance fees of tens of thousands of dollars…
The edit suite I have in my office cost me roughly $50,000 to build, give or take bad math and the fact that I’ve spent three years acquiring gear and I likely am forgetting something…and I’m still not done yet…
I have WAY more capability in my $50,000 room than I ever did in that $750,000 room. Boris FX is comparable in results to the Grass Valley Kaliedoscope (oh…remember those days!?), which if memory serves, cost $250,000…(don’t quote me…). The $1400 (I think) I spent on Boris FX is a downright bargain. Other than the fact that the K-Scope was ALL real time…and boy do I miss that….the results I get out of Boris are comparable to the results I used to get from the K-scope. For less than 1% of the price…can’t beat that with a stick. I’ll take a 7 minute render for that price!
15 years ago, you couldn’t even DREAM of doing what we do for less than a half a million dollars. $50,000 is a bargain!
$100 for a piece of software to let you do something that no one even knew about 5 years ago is astounding. $1000 for 10 pieces of software is similarly a great deal.
I guess it’s perspective…
debe
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