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WMV from FCP6
My dear friends,
What is the best method and settings to use for delivering a ‘Full Res’ (or High Quality movies for presentations) & 10MB (for emailing) to be played on PCs with Windows Media Player by my client.
The source is a DV PAL sequence in FCP 6? I have Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD but currently get chunky ‘TV lines’ on the output files and break up especially on motion and fast cuts (of which there are many being an adrenaline sports film). I only have a Macs so can’t see how Windows Media Player will actually display the final film and so have to trust what I see when Flip4Mac plays it in Quicktime.
It’s my first job for this client so I want to deliver good quality movie.
Thanks for your help.
Luke
Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID
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It’s my first job for this client so I want to deliver good quality movie. < There are severe limitations on transcoding to WMV but the tow platforms are completely different. When we encode to WMV we only use the Mac (using flip) for an estimate. The same file on a PC will look completely different. Sometimes it looks far better, other times it's far worse. it all depends on the subtlety of the settings and the amount of time we have to experiment. My advie would be to hire someone who knows how to do this and then spend a few weeks trying to figure it out on your own. Get everything to can find on the topic if you plan to make compression a service for which you bill your clients. If WMV is your main output, invest in a PC because a cheap used PC is cheaper than most of the high zoot compressors. bogiesan
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