[Craig Seeman]

[Mark Palmos] “as far as flip4mac and fcp goes, as i mentioned earlier in the thread, my 8 core said 78 minutes to render a 3 minute wmv to mov,”

You can import directly into FCP or in QuicktimePro Save AS the the WMV as MOV. It wraps it in MOV. It takes seconds.

Yes, it will have to render to the timeline codec once you edit with it. Is that what you’re doing?

Like any other render that takes hard drive space and that depends on where you’ve set that in FCP as well as what codec it’s being converted to.

If you’re compressing the WMV to MOV first . . . Don’t do it. Save as Mov or import the WMV DIRECTLY into FCP. Wait until you’re editing to let FCP use the timeline codec to change.

[Craig Seeman]

You could use Episode to convert WMV to whatever. It’s very fast. It’s very not free though. $399.

BTW with Flip4Mac (Player Pro and up) you should be able to import WMV right into FCP. I find they can play all right in the Viewer but will drag in the Canvas once in the timeline. You can also do a Save As in Quicktime with Flip4Mac and simply wrap the WMV in MOV. FCP handles that even better and there’s no loss since you’re just wrapping the file in MOV and it’s fast.

[Craig Seeman]

[David Rowan] “-4-Mac exports WMV7
“

Nope. WM9 and WM9 Advanced.

[Craig Seeman]

Does your client know that Windows Media Player 7.1 can play WMV9 files?
Microsoft’s auto update takes care of that (unless they’ve turned it off . . . then they can do it manually).
That should cover most computers back to antiquity.

[Craig Seeman]

Cleaner is now up to 6.5.1 but given the infrequent updates it’s not a program I’d depend on for my business.

Have you considered switching to Squeeze or taking advantage of the Cleaner crossgrade to Episode. Both do excellent Flash (includes Flash 7 and Flash 8 is $100 option).

I just don’t think you’re going to find much support for Cleaner issues. I have Cleaner 6.5.1, Squeeze 4.5 and Episode Pro 4.3. I never use Cleaner anymore. Basically if you’ve found an issue/bug in Cleaner and no one has a workaround, Autodesk isn’t likely to help you or fix the bug.

[Craig Seeman]

Wags finger, cheating!

[Craig Seeman]

I’ve never known anyone to have a reason for such a setup. If you have Studio just install the whole package. I can imagine there can be all sorts of problems with parts coming from different versions. Are all the apps from FCS1 or FCS2?

As a first step, I’d recommend a complete reinstall of FCS and then run software update until it’s current.

If that doesn’t work, there are more drastic measures.

[Craig Seeman]

QT 7.2 update resulted in a Flip4Mac export bug on audio. The workaround is change your FCP sequence audio settings to 44.1khz before export. Flip4Mac is working on the fix.

[Craig Seeman]

I’m not sure I see the marketing value given the poor video quality you’d get with dial up data rates. Also someone on dial up may not have the latest players.

You might try a data rate of 40kbps, no audio so all the data would be in the video. 5 to 10fps, 192×144 frame size. You could use WMV9 since that’ll playback on players going back to WMP7.1.

I think you’d be better off with jpegs (stills). With real estate you’re selling images. Certainly video can give a better sense of the real estate but you’re not going to get any nice moving video for dial up users. While dial up use might be passible for talking head stuff, camera motion is going to fall apart badly.

[Craig Seeman]

Please do reread my first post

32×24 (it’s 4×3 ratio and both numbers are divisible by 8, that’s good). So this is a pretty good base unit of measure.

32 by 24 multiplied by n (best and good frame sizes).

Both the height and width would be evenly divisble by 8. The relationship between the two is 4 to 3.