Rich Rubasch
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Does the patch create problems on a Mac, PC or both? I too use MPEG-1 because of its universal playback and legacy compatibility.
Although Flip4Mac is a good option for playing WMV’s on a Mac, I don’t think you can convince an entire sales force using Macs that they will have to install a $100 plug in to playback your Powerpoint. Most of the Powerpoints I build are going out to a sales force that could have both platforms and wants no-nonsense playback and compatibility. It’s a challenge sure, but MPEG-1 has been the trusty video format for a long time.
That’s why MPEG-1 was so nice…no explanations or trick software to play it. And very old and tired computers could play it.
My guess is that the patch simply broke something that will be fixed. I can’t believe MPEG-1 is going away. Wonder if Microsoft has to pay some fees for enabling MPEG-1 playback and they are tired of paying it.
Not good news, Flip4Mac or not.
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Windows Media Encoder can capture from a firewire input. works pretty good. Not sure if I would do this and not babysit the encoding, but with the right encode settings it could probably do it with little effort.
I would make sure all power save/screen savers etc were off and that there was no wireless connections, and personally if i had the space I would encode to the internal hard drive. I would NOT use an external USB drive unless it was a USB2 drive on a USB2 port.
Basically give the encoder all of the laptops processing.
Should work great. Do a quick test, say 10 minutes with a certain setting and see how big the file is and multiply that by the total length you want the final and that will determine how much space you will need and how good the quality will be. Don’t expect full screen DV either, but rather go with maybe 480 x 360 WMV at even 15fps to be safe.
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One more thing….after DVDSP 3 installs rename the app file with a 3 at the end and return DVDSP4 back to the apps folder.
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Do you need a muxed Mpeg stream with audio and video or just an MPEG-2 stream? If you have DVDStudio Pro 3 discs, remove DVDStudio Pro 4 from the apps folder and install DVDStudioPro 3. It will re-enable the MPEG exporter so you can export directly from the timeline or Quicktime Pro straight to MPEG-2. You will need to use MPEG-Streamclip (squared5.com) to mux an audio and video file into a system stream with audio and video.
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All you Media Manager defenders out there wonder why we are constantly questioning this important part of our favorite editing program?
How common is this question?
How mangled is the Media Manager?
My guess, Oren, is that someone will suggest you search this forum and that it has been discussed at length in prior posts.
I’m grumpy.
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On the Episode Pro page it doesn’t really brag about its WMV encoding and I’ll stand up the Windows Media Encoder against any other WMV encoder for quality. I wonder if the Episode packages bundle in the same WMV engine that is in the Flip4Mac products (I’m not so impressed….great for quickie WMVs but not for really nice looking full screen encodes).
Again the Pro version is $995 or $495. The cleaner upgrade is $99, and the Flip4Mac is about $200.
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Why not get the cleaner 6.5 upgrade ($99 I think) which will give you the same familiar interface with the FLV encoder and all the rest. It pretty much does everything I need except for WMV (I do those on a PC) and MPEG-2 (I still use cmpressor for MPEG-2 exclusively). I also have MPEG-Streamclip for doing transcodes for the PC and other valuable uses.
So I have a compressor-cleaner-mpeg streamclip workflow.
Also see the post a few threads ago about the need for a robust stand alone encoder….add your wants to the list!
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There is no doubt that the 4K market will be driven by the projection market where the image will be seen on a big screen. Huge with indie filmmakers who want the best master format. If you can get these files into post imagine how you could manipulate them! Imagine flying around a 4K frame in a DVCProHD sequence. It is the same thing with HD in an SD environment. Creatively there is more latitude.
There is already a huge fan base for the Red camera. Mostly because it is the wow factor….sort of like the “how many megapixels is your digital camera,” even though 4 or so is probably enough for a decent print.
So for big, honkin wide shows that are projected and have the budget, or films that will be digitally projected, that’s where the market will be driven from. I can see Disney getting all jazzed about it for some of their screen presentations.
Is there a compressed codec that can handle the large frame size, or does the workflow require uncompressed througout?
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wonder if it would be possible to save one step and just export directly from P Pro the hi quality 1920 x 100 wmv in a square pixel aspect ratio instead of to an 1.33 par 1440 x 1080 avi first and then use that 1920 x 1080 wmv to encode to a 1920 x 1080 Real and Quicktime file and smaller versions
That could also work…it is like making an acceptable intermediary. I do this many times through AfterEffects. I bring the file there and scale it, deinterlace etc to the size I want to send to the encoder. It is usually compressed, like PhotoJpeg etc, so it is easy to save etc. Then it goes to the encoder. Do this a lot.
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I’m jumping in late but I agree with Danny. It almost seems like the intermediary clip you are using is not going to work with cleaner. However, once you have that intermediary, you might be able to run a pretty quick transcode to a different format, like the WMV Danny suggested, and bring that into cleaner. sometimes it is knowing how your encoding software likes to work and then accommodating it in your workflow. Since Procoder does’t like the intermediary you are using either, I think that’s the place to start.
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