Premier Pro CS5 (Mac) to WMV Workflow

I’m looking for a recommendation on a process that eventually yields a good quality WMV file. I’m using Premier Pro CS5 on a Mac and I need to have a finished WMV file for a corporate intranet. Normally, I deploy a H.264/.MP4 combination via the Adobe Media Encoder, so I’m not sure what settings and process I need to get a nice looking WMV. The final size will be 640 x 360.
I really appreciate your advice.
Thanks,
Andy

First of all, there is no such thing as a "good quality WMV" from a Mac in my experience. It's a horrible codec, and always looks like garbage to me, no matter how high a bit-rate I set.
But, that's a personal opinion; not scientific; an "eye of the beholder" thing.
I try to talk my clients out of using / requesting WMV. FLV and MP4 look much better, are cross-platform, and can be exported from Pr Mac.
Anyway, when I lose that battle, I export ProRes from Pr, and use QT Pro with Flip4Mac installed to make WMVs. The Flip4Mac plug-in lets you save presets to use within QT Pro. I also use QT enabled apps like QT Amateur and Sorenson Squeeze to do batch exporting. One could even use FCP just to do batch exports, as it allows WMV from within the application, unlike Pr for Mac. And as others have posted, other apps like MPEG Streamclip also offer batch transcoding.
My sister has both Macs and Windows machines, and she says the quality is much better when using a Windows system to make WMVs. So, perhaps my beef isn't so much with WMV, but with the Flip4Mac plug-in (which is the only way to get to and from WMV with a Mac).

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