[Craig Seeman]

I was editing in FCP which can export AVI instead of MOV. I exported a DV.AVI file and it worked without issue!

It seems the 2 GB limit is still there for Quicktime .MOV files on Windows XP (SP2). While larger and longer files can certainly play in QT without issue, WME can’t handle more than 2GB of a MOV file. In this case I could say, “You learn something OLD every day!” I thought that 2GB limit was long gone across both platforms and formats.

Fortunately Final Cut Pro (Quicktime actually) can export DV, DVCPro and DVCPro50 as AVI. Unfortunately QT(on Mac) can’t export DVCPro100 (DVCProHD) as AVI though. Didn’t need to worry about that in this case but I need to think about that (and your suggested solutions, at least look at some method of near loss less conversion to something XP WME likes.

[Craig Seeman]

I’ve now tried this on two different files. They both encode to 9:27 in duration. One is the 3.34GB file and the other is 4GB. It makes no difference whether the file is on the XP SP2 computer’s NTFS boot drive or the Mac OS Extended on the network.

Seems like I’m hitting a limit and that duration sounds very similar to the old 2GB limit duration.

Didn’t think this would happen with NTFS formated drive but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the drive.

Anybody else have this experience?
Any idea how to fix?

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac Universal is in beta. Encoding times for version 2.1 should be many times faster than 2.0.2. I’ll probably be doing speed tests on the next build or so as I’m a beta tester.

Keep in mind Flip4Mac has a range of products which can encode right on up to WMV HD. Flip4Mac can also wrap WMV in MOV (no compression loss) if you need to edit WMVs in FCP also.

[Craig Seeman]

Head thisaway
https://www.flip4mac.com/fusetalk/forum/

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac Universal is in beta. Encoding times for version 2.1 should be many times faster than 2.0.2. I’ll probably be doing speed tests on the next build or so as I’m a beta tester.

Keep in mind Flip4Mac has a range of products which can encode right on up to WMV HD. Flip4Mac can also wrap WMV in MOV (no compression loss) if you need to edit WMVs in FCP also.

[Craig Seeman]

Squeeze 4.3 can also use On2 VP6 but I’m not sure if that’ll solve your problem. It may be worth it to contact Sorenson though.

[Craig Seeman]

Here’s my “instant” thoughts although nothing is ever one size fits all.

I’d find WMV9 safest for quality and reach.

Flash8 (if you mean On2 VP6 for example) requires Flash8 (won’t work with earlier players) and I’m not that crazy about the quality of the earlier/other Flash codecs for video. They work if you’re building that kind of interactivity but I wouldn’t use it otherwise. VP6 is good (and slow to encode) though. I’d give it more time for people to update to Flash8 Player before using.

H.264 looks great but requires Quicktime 7. Many people, especially Windows users, have not or will not update to Quicktime 7 though. Some complain of conflicts. Some Windows users abhor Quicktime, some corporate IT environments won’t allow it or won’t allow the update.

Many people though, who use their computers for entertainment (movie trailers for example) DO have Quicktime 7 (because they’re quality junkies) so if that’s your target H.264 is good.

[Craig Seeman]

How are you exporting WMV from Final Cut Pro? Both Flip4Mac and Popwire components must be purchased. Flip4Mac in DEMO mode will allow you to export half a clip or 30 seconds, as a demo.

[Craig Seeman]

I can’t do BetaMax dubs either . . . nor 2″

I can play WMV9 on my old Windows 98 (pre 98 SE) computer with WMP 7.1 (with that free download component). I’d have a serious talk with the client about this. If they need to use/view/market with web video they are doing a serious disservice to both internal and external decision makers since WMV 7 can’t provide the quality and/or file size efficiency of WMV9. Yes, I’ve had the talk with a client or two. They even discovered the IT department had no problem doing the small update to WMP7.1 since it didn’t require a major OS or software install.

You can use Cleaner on the Mac to create WMV7 (which can create WMV9 with Flip4Mac added). If you need to buy it then you might want to mark up the price for the “special service.” These days you can actually buy a cheap Windows XP Home edition box for the price of Cleaner and use Windows Media Encoder (free download for Windows).

[Craig Seeman]

I record many preformances. We almost always get a board mix to DAT or CD these days. We mix in camera audio for the reasons that Peter Ralph mentions above.

There are times when we can set up for a stereo field recording with two mics close to the stage or speaker stacks (close enough for direct sound without mic distortion added).

Keep in mind distortion/overloaded circuitry can happen at several points when using wireless mics. There’s the transmitter sensitivity that must be set, the receiver sensitivity, pre amp into camera or other recording device. You can have a level on the “final” meter well below peaking and still get heavy distortion.