[Pdr]

Hi JP

Am not too sure myself, but you can check out these two companies, as they both make QuickTime Export components that export to WMV; take a read through their doco and see if there is Eventstream-esque functionality.

Popwire – WMV-9 Export Component – USD 29.95
https://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?products_id=7

Flip4Mac – WMV Studio – USD 99.00
https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

Both of these components will allow you to encode from Cleaner 6, so your workflow shouldn’t really have to change much. And they all come with a good set of presets to make setup pretty fast. We did some extensive testing a couple of months back on both of these tools, and both of them are good.

I personally think the Popwire tool is better, as it encodes a lot faster and it is cheaper. But we ended up purchasing Flip4Mac, because it is the only one with which you can encode from Apple Compressor 2 — don’t ask me why you can export from QuickTime, but not Compressor!!! — so Flip4Mac was much better suited to our workflow.

Now theoretically, since Eventstream is Cleaner’s way of making media interactive, it may be able to work on WMV, but you will only work this out through experimenting. And I said theoretically. Remember that QuickTime is the bees knees, and WMV is not as nice playing with others!

But I know for a fact that WMVs can contain clickable links, so there has got to be a tool out there for you, somewhere…

Best of luck and I hope this helps.

Regards
Peter

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raycity* media – pdr@raycity.com

PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz, 4GB, Mac OS X 10.4.1
PowerBook G4 17″ 1.67 GHz, 2GB, Mac OS X 10.4.1
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[Pdr]

Hey Andy

What I didn’t say on the other posts was how wonderful the photograph is

[Pdr]

Many thanks Walter.

Do you mind if I ask a couple of further questions regarding your setup?

[Pdr]

Hey Andy

If you have everything activated on your Sequence > Render All menu, then opt-R should render at best quality.

This in an awesome article; it really helps one get their head around RTExtreme and rendering.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/rendering_rt_fcp_4_balis.html

Hope this helps.

Regards
Peter

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Peter Dominic Ryan – Freelance Editor
raycity* media – pdr@raycity.com

PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz, 4GB, Mac OS X 10.4.1
PowerBook G4 17″ 1.67 GHz, 2GB, Mac OS X 10.4.1
FCPro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, DVD SP 4

[Pdr]

Hey John

Check out:

[Pdr]

Hey Daniel

Sorry to hear you’re having problems.

I would recommend an erase-install of Mac OS X and then a complete reinstall.
It sounds like a lot of work, but constant de-bugging an existing setup can take more time and grief in the long run.

And you might want to see i that disc mounts on the Finder. Get a new one from Apple before you reinstall, if you can wait.

Regards
Peter

[Pdr]

Hi Robert

Do you mean you want to author a DVD-Video, or just store footage on a DVD-R?

Final Cut Pro won’t do either, you’ll need either:

[Pdr]

Hi Andy

Sorry mate, but I think a clarification is required here: this photo wasn’t scanned at 72dpi
— it’s attributes are now SET TO 72dpi.

Think about it, as you say:
25.5 Inches wide x 17.056 Inches high and resolution 72 pixels/inch
— A slide that is 25.5 inches wide??? Man that’s HUGE!!!

The best way to work out the dpi at which it was scanned is to do this:
1. Measure the width of the original slide (eg. 1.8 inches)
2. Divide horiz res (ie. 1818 px ) by horiz width (in inches)
— that gives you true dpi (in my example, 1818

[Pdr]

Hi Joe

Do you have access to a deck eg. Sony DSR-25, DSR-45?

These decks can write timecode to tape from an external source, and thus you can make perfect tape to tape backups with timecode intact. We do it all the time.

Regards
Peter

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Peter Dominic Ryan – Freelance Editor
raycity* media – pdr@raycity.com

PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz, 4GB, Mac OS X 10.4
FCP 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, DVD SP 4

[Pdr]

I am a night owl!

And a friend in London is having DIRE FCP Studio upgarade problems