Encoding WMV on MAC

huh... i haven't had that problem. i hope it isn't because of the version i'm using, because i am just about to license a new one for a new computer...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Alex_Manifest_M

It wasn't only the watermarking issue (which is a big problem in my book) but the fact that batch encoding different formats (MOV WMV FLV) always caused it to crash. Certain WMV files also had a definite green tinge when the source video was on the dark side (high contrast lighting or moody dark backgrounds)

So to make it work, I had to not mix formats, not encode more then one file at a time which made the batch feature almost pointless. Our 5 minute video clips are about 3gig prior to encoding down to 60mg so it takes a lot of muscle to make that happen and Sorenson came up lacking.

Episode Pro gives me no trouble at all. It will take everything I push at it and sends it back looking great. I can put in four 5 minute clips at 3gig a piece and 4 hours later I get back 24 encoded clips in two formats and three sizes each. Worth every penny. We do shoot in prosumer hd 16:9 with stereo audio.

---

Mine was a pretty new one. Less than a year old and with all the updates installed.

I gave up and went to Quicktime, never been happier. AND it plays on the iPhone.

But... in the Darker Days I used flip4mac and it worked ok. But since there's no plugin API for the new iMovie, you can't directly export from it. Yuck.

man sorrenson is the best one also very easy to use, and very fast , you can do wmv hd on it and the final quality is very good.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by GPallan

Is it not possible to encode movies in WMV format on MACs? My new editor is having the hardest time encoding vids to WMV on his MAC. And when he does, the video jumps and skips and the audio is off.

Can anyone suggest anything?

Thanks guys!

Allan

---

We had been doing our WMV movies on Squeeze on a Dell Workstation, but we found that using Flip4Mac Studio Pro within Compressor on a Mac G5 was much faster and produced better looking movies. You do have to play a lot with the settings to get what you want, but that's the same with any program.

We've stopped using our Dell Xeon workstation for WMV creation and now use it only to test our sites. Everything else is done on Macs. Even when we run Windows we now run it on Macs. No more desktop Dells. Our only Dells are our servers, and 4 of the 5 run Linux and 1 is a Windows Media Streaming Server.

--Jake (tech geek pornographer)