[Craig Seeman]

WMP7.1 which can run on WIndows 98 (Pre SE) and Windows NT can play WMV9 files.

[Craig Seeman]

Of course one may wonder what will happen with the entire G5 price structure pending what Apple’s move to Intel is really about. We’ll know very soon though.

[Craig Seeman]

Final Cut Pro 5 handles HDV “natively.”

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac INCLUDES WMV Player Pro which allows you to import and edit WMVs in Final Cut Pro (as well as QuickTime Pro). Not only can you export Quicktime to WMV, you can go the other way and convert your WMV files to Quicktime MOV if you want. Popwire Export component is just an export component AFAIK.

[Craig Seeman]

As Walter said, Flip4Mac will export to WMV out of FCP, QuickTimePro, even iMovie and FCE as well as Cleaner and Squeeze4.1.

[Craig Seeman]

What are you playing your file with, WMP9 Mac, WMP9 or 10 on Windows, Popwire WMV Player? Can you send a link to your file?

[Craig Seeman]

Read this

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/cc_legal_fcp4.html

Also note the book he mentions in the above article.

Also consider “Practical Color Correction for Final Cut Pro 3 and 4” from Intelligent Assistant (It’s a CD)
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_cc_ia.html

and this
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_cc_dft_dvd.html

It’s to give a simple answer to such a complex subject. If you have to ask about what the scopes are you should start by reading the FCP manual.

[Craig Seeman]

Flip4Mac supports Quicktime 7. Fixing bugs with Tiger though. It’ll work in FCP, FCE, iMovie, QuictimePro. The exporter also comes with the player which, depending on the version you get, play WMV files in Quicktime and for the Pro version, allows you to import WMV directly into FCP for editing.

[Craig Seeman]

[jaser] “craig, if you can wait another week until wwdc, at least see if stve will make any new announcements:
“

Yup, aware of it and plan on waiting. My hunch is that the new machines at January Macworld will be a major change. That’s why I’m thinking cheap.

My concern about PCI vs PCI-X is that I am thinking that a year down the road I might be dealing with DVCProHD (HDCAM not likely though) but the Panasonic DVCProHD deck doesn’t tax the system though as it’s only 4 times DV25 (DV100) and can use firewire. Although a few of my clients hand me BetaSP, they don’t want to pay the price for component and RAID uncompressed so I end up dubbing to DVCAM. I’ll probably get DVCProHD before I get DigiBeta.

[Craig Seeman]

Yes to Flip4Mac. especially the WMV Studio Pro version
https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

You not only can create WMV, you can create WMV HD (with surround sound). In addition it includes Player Pro which will allow you to play WMV in Quicktime, import WMV into FCP so you can edit WMV files, convert WMV to MOV (Quicktime). You can export to WMV from FCP, FCE, iMovie, Cleaner, Squeeze, QuicktimePro.