Compressor MPEG and AVI

about 6 months ago when I was shopping for an edit system a big thing I noticed was that apple advertised for a third party plugin that allowed compressor to make windows format media files such as mpeg and avi and now I am in a position where I need to make those formats and was wondering if anybody could help me locate it and also if you have used it, is it good?
thanks,
Jeremy

Hi
I used Flip4Mac trial for Windows Media and works really good (I believe is the same as Episode). Here's the link: https://store3.esellerate.net/store/checkout/CustomLayout.aspx?s=STR1307002805&p c=&page=OnePageCatalog.htm
The one I use is VisualHub wich is easy of use, really cheap and works great on different formats (Flash, WMV, AVI, MPEG, etc). But it's an external application so you've to export your movie and then convert it with VisualHub.
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