[Mike Petty]

Yep…still gettting the hop. But not on all cuts it is random but happens more often than not.

[Mike Petty]

Actually think I have it whipped. I took the original file from FCP into Compressor and cooked it as a QT H.264 at 1280×720. Then I exported that from QT as a .wmv file using Flip4Mac HD Studio. Quality is excellent and it played fine on my client’s crummy office computer. A new workflow is born.

Thanks for all of the thoughts guys.

[Mike Petty]

I have a second question. Is it reasonable, assuming I committed to upping the ante on my skill set, to redoing the logo at the end of the trailer I posted from scratch in Motion. Seems like i might be easier than it might appear. Thoughts?

[Mike Petty]

I’ll try both way’s…thanks guys. I was just trying to remember much I paid to have this produced in 1989…probably a couple hundred grand (we being a major studio happy to pay ridiculous LA prices for anything)

Now I can go knock it out back in our little micro production company studio for time spent. Of course if I had it produced by an agency today it would still be a couple hundred grand!!!

[Mike Petty]

I’m not going to the web – They already have the spot up on Vimeo/YouTube – They want a file they can carry around on a thumb drive and transfer onto customer computers.

Why they want to do this mystifies me but I am not inclined to argue with their sales strategy,

I am currently trying a bunch of different .wmv presets in Flip4Mac StudioHD. In the first couple of tests I can live with the lower picture quality but the film stutters to the point of being unwatchable. Anybody have any magic presets for Flip4Mac HD Studion that might work?

I am also going to take another run at creating an MP4 file. I tried it with the file chaged to .mpg (and that would not play on WMP) now I’ll try it in compressor and leave it at MP4 and see what happens.

Is there and H.264 setting that will play in Windows media player?

Thanks for all of the input BTW…I’m sure all of us, including me, have other stuff to do.

[Mike Petty]

Concur…but the problem is they are going to be giving the file to their customers…so I have hundreds of people who need to play this rascal. I keep recommending to just push them to the web but they are old school (you know – 2002) so this is what I have to do.

How do I get a 1080P30 File converted to play on Windows Media Player on crappy office computers???

[Mike Petty]

OK kids here’s an update…

I cooked the file in compressor as an mp4 ( .mpg) it looked pretty good. I just got back from the client and it played fine in QT but would not play in Windows Media Player! And as has been so correctly pointed out…90% of the world will watch it that way!

The flip side is I did do the upgrade for fip4mac HD and ran it through that and the result was horrible. I messed with all sorts of setting and there results were wholly unacceptable.

So I am back to square one it seems…Any ideas???

[Mike Petty]

Thanks for keeping it simple…always the best way.

[Mike Petty]

I concur that those trailers are excellent…can you give me/us some insight into your H.264 workflow?

[Mike Petty]

I actually did decide to pop for the Flip for Mac Upgrade…it was only $80 from what I had. Small price for making my clients in the WIndows world happy.