WMV format missing in AE CS3

[Tl Westgate]

I’ve found the free Windows Media Encoder does a better job of making WMVs. Download that from the Microsoft site and just render out your comp as a Microsoft DV AVI file. Then, load that into WME and off you go!

— TL

[Lyle Pascoe]

I am working on a Mac and there is no mac compatible version of this encoder!

Any other suggestions?

[Tl Westgate]

Oh, sorry. I’m a PC guy. I’m not up on Mac solutions. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

— TL

[Mark Titchener]

Hi

You could use one of the flip4mac studio components for Quicktime.

https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

Render out in a format you can open in Quicktime Pro then export and select ‘Movie to Windows Media’ and set your wmv options.

[Sean Corcoran]

VisualHub can convert to WMV, and it’s $23.32.

[David Bogie]

Many happy VisualHub users around here.
We have Flip4Mac.
Cleaner 6.5 also has a decent encoder for WMV, it’s $600 I think.

Caution, converting to WMV takes time, very intensive processing, tons of options. Study the readmes and manuals carefully, you will need to boost the gamma and change the contrast a bit. PC monitors work in a different color space than Macs.

If you want to make your clients move into the 21st Century, get them to use Flash Media Player and start delivering h.264 files directly from QT. You just change the .mov to .flv.

bogiesan

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

[Gary Hazen]

Flip4mac is offered in 4 different versions based on the users needs.
I think the studio version ($50) will allow WMV output from AE.

https://www.flip4mac.com/store_wmv.htm

[Lyle Pascoe]

Thanks for all the advice.

If i don’t want to invest in any of this software, what would be the most compatible file format in AE to render out the clips in for windows pc’s and youtube?