Compressing to WMV

Hi,
I installed the Flip4Mac plugin and followed Ken Stone's instructions on how to use it with compressor.
Everything is good until I click the submit button. The movie history gives me a failed result but does not explain what went wrong. I have looked over all the settings, but cannot see why it won't compress.
Any ideas?

That's progress! That did indeed work. I got my 30 seconds which was explained in the trial setup.
Unfortunately, now I got 2 questions instead of one!
Any idea why it does not work in compressor? ( that was the "easy" one)
I have seen some really high quality WMV files ( not HD as far as I know) It seems crossdisolve, zoom in and out are always painful to watch, and I find interlacing is also obvious with any type of motion.
I am wondering, how high does one set the bitrate? Is the only way to create really sharp movies to have huge files and just stream the content?

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I need compressor to compress to wmv

does anyone know where i can get the wmv plug-in that would help a ton thank you

Dave.bringle wrote:
not quiet what i was looking for i was more looking for a plug in for compressor so i can export a video to wmv so i can play it on a pc also im looking just for any kinda of different video format for compressor my employer really wants every possible option< </div>
You were looking for something that is free? Doesn't exist.
Compressor is an Apple product.
Windows Media is a, umm, Windows product. Neither company licenses the other's technologies for free. You must pay someone for the ability to transcode between incompatible and competing media formats. That company is Telestream and the best product is Flip4Mac. They also make two advanced WMV transcoders. There are far more expensive alternatives and a simple google search will yield several.
Unless she is planning to be in the media transocde and delivery business, your employer needs to determine what your delivery formats will be and attempt to focus on just one or two. If you are thinking you need to be in the biz, you need an education. Transcoding is a huge sub-niche. There are literally hundreds of incompatible, proprietary, obsolete and competing delivery codecs and each requires a plugin of some kind and most require some kind of fees.
However, you can forget all of that. You really only need to be conversant in one format: Flash. Flash is an Adobe product and that's where you should be spending your time, on the Adobe Flash forum.
bogiesan

Wmv :30 limit when compressing

First time compressing to WMV and even though the previewer and the inspector shows the complete full length, compressor only makes a 30 second movie. What am I overlooking?????
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) FCP-Compressor
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9) FCP-Compressor

You are using the free Flip4Mac plug-in to do the compression to WMV. The free version of the plug-in will only encode up to 30 seconds maximum, as a trial/demo.
In order to encode your entire asset, you must purchase a more full-featured version of the Flip4Mac plug-in.
Or, if you have access to a PC, you can download the Windows Media Encoder free from Microsoft and do it that way.
Good luck.

Editing PAL wmv clip and converting to NTSC

I have a 50 min clip (given to me by a client) which was captured in PAL, edited, and compressed as .wmv file; the audio rate is 44.1KHz, square pixel ratio. I need to edit in FCP and convert to NTSC. I've tried rendering in FCP after it's imported, converting to NTSC before bringing it in (probably at the wrong settings), and changing the sequence settings.
I can view it fine in the viewer, but once I put it in the timeline, the sound is completely unsynched (probably the 44.1 thing), which is why I changed the sequence settings to 44.1.
I did find the macworld article from March '06 on how to successfully transfer to PAL using Compressor 2 and will use that. Here's the link for those who want it:
http://www.macworld.com/2006/02/secrets/marchcreate/index.php
Here's my question, do I first transfer the huge clip through flip4mac to make it a .mov, or do I put it through compressor? Or, do I edit it down to the 7 - 1 minute clips I actually need from the clip, export those using ???? and then do the other conversions?

Do you think the out of sync sound is due to the
44.1KHz as opposed to 48KHz?
No.
I did try changing the
sequence settings to 44.1 bringing the exact clips
in, and then rendering (which should convert from
.wmv), but it was still out of sync. Doing it that
way, should I make the sequence settings 44.1KHz but
leave it PAL until I later do the compressor
conversion?
I'd use flip4Mac to get the files to .mov's... then edit in PAL. Export the PAL sequence to compressor for the NTSC conversion.
I think once you get them to .mov's you're possibly home free with the sync problem. FCP just doesn't support wmv's... so that could be the sync problem.
Jerry

WMV Clips wont open browser

They use to work fine until i installed flip4mac as i recommended this but as it did not do what i wanted i unintalled it and then the clips stopped working so i reinstalled Windows Media Player and now when i go to play a wmv clip in the browser it looks af it its goons start downloading the file in the status bar but then just hangs the machine.
Any one any ideas?
thanks

The instructions are an issue. One the dilemmas with something like Flip4Mac is that it's not a stand alone product. The player is dependent on Quicktime, the web plugin uses Safari, the encoder/exporter a variety of apps.
If you've ever used Flip4Mac encoder in Squeeze you'll get an entirely different interface than using it in Compressor or QuicktimePro.
You can join WMV files in Quicktime Pro just as you can join mov files. It's a bit of a pain and I don't think too many folks know how to do it with mov files either.
It's easier in FCP but that's expensive way to go if you don't have FCP.
You can do it in iMovie. That should be an easy and familiar interface and it's free for most folks (even Quicktime Pro costs $30). You'd edit them like any other file. In my playing I've found it's easier to save the WMV in a MOV wrapper in QuikckTimePro and then edit the MOV file in iMovie or FPC (whatever your comfortable with). If you import the WMV directly into iMovie it'll work but might be a bit sluggish depending on your Mac.
One issue that some have raised with this approach is that one has to recompress the joined file as wmv. Ideally one should simply save it (no further compression) as wmv as I think one can do with MS Movie Maker on Windows. I think the Flip4Mac folks are aware if this (if not, I'll make sure they're aware of it) and see if they'll come up with a way to join wmvs with a simple save to wmv instead of recompression.
In any case you can join the files in QuicktimePro (kind of kludgy) or in iMovie or FCP (much easier since they're editing apps).
If you do want to do it in QuicktimePro, my bet is Quicktime Kirk can give a better explanation of it than me. With Flip4Mac wmv works the same way as mov in QuicktimePro.
BTW I do plan on writing a users guide at some point.

I DON't want to be right!

Hi all,
Our website is viewed by the general public at large. We hate WMV - but unfortunately most of the world uses it extensively! On our website is full of QT compressions - but alas, many "good" people just won't, or can't download QT player.
Sooo . . . we must put a few movies on our site as WMV. We use flip4mac to compress in wmv, so PC'ers can view them on their PC's without QT.
When we add a link to our site - of course the wmv must "download" first - then the PC'er can watch it. My question! Is there a way to allow a PC'er to view the wmv video without first downloading the entire thing - which is what we do now? I guess I'm looking to allow a "progressive" download - so viewers can view the wmv like they do a QT - as it loads. And NOT have to wait until it finishes. If you look here, you'll see what I mean.
Please - somebody prove me WRONG and tell me how to allow watching a WMV as it downloads. BTW, this .mac account is not given to the public. We just use it to play with. We release everything on another URL for the public.
Site is here . . . http://web.mac.com/larrycohen3/iWeb/Trivue/Home.html
Thanks
Larry
Macbook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4)

I would think that uploading your movies in Flash would be much more user friendly then either WMV or Quicktime. Well, that is excluding the iPhone right now.
Kind Regards,
--Eric
Ash Films
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High-Def Codecs

Is there a way to get the High-Def codecs (other than H.264) to work on Windows? I'm specifically talking about the Apple Intermediate codec and/or the HDV codec. I would like to get my HD footage over from my Mac (in FCP) to my PC so I could compress into WMV HD files, but I can't find any way other than compressing to H.264, which introduces another recompression, not to mention it takes an eternity.
If there is no way to do this, can anyone else recommend a workflow on getting HD footage over to the PC so that it can be compresses into WMV HD?
Thanks a bunch,
mike
PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

http://www.flipformac.com/products.htm
Great product. Allows you to create High-def Winodws Media files right from FCP.

Posting slideshow to video.google--size matters

I posted earlier about compressing a wmv file I had created to email and decided just to post it to video.google.
So I posted a slideshow to video.google but no matter what I do, I can't make it "full screen." See here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=874330041612533639&q=Navy+homecoming
I'm not sure what is needed so here are the particulars: Windows XP, PSE5.0, and Organizer. I created all images as 800x600 at 72 dpi, layering the photos onto black pages. I had a couple scans and zooms. Again, the base "page" was 800x600 and I scanned and zoomed within that.
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Has anyone had any experience with video.google and know what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Barb,
I was a little rushed when I wrote my first reply, I had to go to the
dentist. I'm back from the appointment and did a little more research on
Google Video.
It looks like things are a bit more complicated. Like YouTube and other
video services, GoogleVideo re-encodes the uploaded videos. When you play
back on the web in a browser, you're seeing a flash movie. In addition, you
can download it, and that seems to give you a mp4 for ipods or gvp/gvi
(custom avi format for use with the google player) for computer viewing.
The issue is the re-encoding. I don't know what Google is doing with the
video. At the very least, they are converting to different formats and
codec than the original (flash, mp4, and gvi). They also appear to be
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download, but the embeded source for the web page seems to say that the
flash movie is 400x326. So, it doesn't look like John will be able to
benefit from a higher resolution wmv as far as GoogleVideo is concerned. In
fact, it could even make it look worse depending on how the resizing is
accomplished. A higher resolution wmv will certainly look better on a
computer. And, the resolution he has will be fine for viewing on a standard
TV.
I don't upload to GoogleVideo so I'm not familiar with the process or the
requirements.
John's choices for resolution are very reasonable if his main intent is for
viewing on a conventional TV. (NTSC resolution is 720x480 pixels but the
pixel aspect ratio is 0.9 -- this is equivalent to 640x480 square pixels)
In general, you'll want to resize the images to close to your intended
resolution before you make the slideshow with the exception of frames that
will be panned and zoomed which will need to be larger. Resizing in
Elements or Photoshop is generally better than what you would get scaling in
PE 3, for example, and using full sized 6mb images, for example, can result
in very long render times and may cause other problems if processed in a
video editor such as PE 3.

Can I Preload External MPGs?

I have a lengthy piece that uses a lot of external MPGs in
addition to embedded content. It's fine on my development machine,
but I just viewed it with the client on their plant network and the
movies took
forever to load. I'd put a "Loading" animated GIF in-between
them, but it didn't animate and, even if it had, the piece really
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> Thanks for the good advice, as usual. By compressing to
WMV I reduced the
> size
> by about 87%, but the video shows black for about 3
seconds before the
> actual
> video content plays. However, the WMV file itself has
picture from frame
> 1. Is
> this something I have to live with? I've tested it in
both the web player
> and
> local, AND with a6wmp32.xmo in the same directory for
both. I'm using AW
> 6.5.
WMV files are played in the movie icon via the Windows Media
Player ActiveX
control. On some machines there is an unavoidable delay while
the AX control
initialises as it loads up the movie for playing. It has been
a source of
frustration for me for years!
You can try hiding it off screen, then use a zero-second
motion icon to move
it back on screen as the movie starts to play. On many
machines this appears
to happen cleanly, but on others you will see a momentary
black flash as the
movie begins to play. Seems to be a hardware thing that's not
controllable
by us. You may find the momentary black flash more preferable
though. You
could, for instance, put up a black box with "Please Wait,
Loading". The
text disappears just as you move the video back on screen.
>
> BTW, I also liked --- and totally agree with --- your
answer to "Funny
> Videos". I can't believe the hacker types are hitting
forums now! Too bad
> they
> can't find something productive to do...
>
:-) If our data and time were not so important, I would care
less, but all
too often these things are malicious :-(
Steve
EuroTAAC eLearning 2007
http://www.eurotaac.com
Adobe Community Expert: Authorware, Flash Mobile and Devices
My blog -
http://stevehoward.blogspot.com/
Authorware tips -
http://www.tomorrows-key.com

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Don,
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Just curious if Compressor or better yet for what I am doing final cut can compress to a wmv (windows media format)? for the sake of downloading of our website.
thank you

Actually once you install Flip4Mac it works within compressor too. Just select quicktime export components when creating a new compression proifile and you will see all the WMV options.

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Someone has given me two .wmv files that they wanted putting on a DVD as at the moment they will only play on a computer.
I have put them on the timeline of FCP and exported using compressor then with it set to fastest encode I have left it to compress. It is only 24minutes long but so far has been on all night and still only 50%.
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Therefore:
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Hope this helps.
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Question is just as it reads in the title.
I have a client using a pc and they are running into all sorts of problems when trying to open .mov's.
Im assuming that a .wmv will play on thier computers.
Will apples compressor convert mov's to wmv's? if so, what setting should i use?
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