Hello , 

i bought the flip4mac plug in , but i still cant find any way to export an wmv from the avid....

i can export an quicktime ref and then export an wmv ....

anybody out there that knows a trick ....? 

Peter 

Hamburg 

Hi Peter,

I export uncompressed QuickTime, and then convert to wmv with either Squeeze or Episode.  I'm on a Mac (as I presume you are), and I've had an ongoing problem with the resulting wmv files:  the audio isn't in sync when I play it in QuickTime (which uses Flip4Mac).  Weird, because when I use VLC to play the same wmv file, it's in sync!!!

Don't know if this helps or not.  Except to say that you can't export out of Avid directly to wmv.

Malcolm

Keen to know if anyone has got anywhere with this - client wants wmv and keeps telling me how useless QT is, but graphics finisher has given me just a big QT file of the final version. Trying to convert this in Sorenson Squeeze as bundled with MC but it crashes every single time - is there something obvious I'm missing?

Loaded back into MC but a QTref export doesn't fare any better. Is Sorenson failing, or is there a problem making wmv files on a Mac?

Thanks for any help

Clients, pah.

Anyway. What codec is the QT from your graphics guy? QT is just a wrapper, it means nothing in itself.

Good Grief!

I'm in more trouble than I thought! I'll try to find out.

But even QTrefs straight out of Avid are a problem. Sorenson seems to agree to try but then gives up every time I try to make a .wmv file. Is there a fundamental problem with .wmv on a Mac?

Hi Susi, 

if it´s a QT , why don´t you install Flip4Mac plug in for QT? 

And then Export wmv.

I´m working with Avid 3.5 and Squeeze 5 . And i dont have any Problem. 

How did you import the clip into the Avid ? Wich resolution ?

Susi:

Is there a fundamental problem with .wmv on a Mac?

I personally feel there is a fundamental problem, at least with wmv and MY Mac – all of the wmv files I create seem to have audio sync issues – but other Mac users don't seem to have this problem.

I've used both Squeeze and Episode, with - it seems to me - the same results.  However (and the people at Telestream/Episode have been very helpful and patient), it seems that audio sync issues that I have with my wmv files don't appear as such on other computers.  I don't know.  Maybe a PC plays the files differently.  There's something weird going on, I think.  I keep trying to talk one client out of using wmv files, but they insist.

At least I'm able to export to wmv, though.  I don't know why you can't do that.  My workflow again:  export out of Avid as QuickTime file.  Then load into Episode or Squeeze and convert to wmv (there are a million tweaks you can make re data rate, etc).

Good luck, 

Malcolm

Thanks for this - it's good not to feel alone in format limbo.

Squeeze just wouldn't run for even the tiniest simplest wmv export so I took the postproduction final and huge QT across the office to my PC and converted using a cheap download software called 'OJOsoft Total Video Converter'.

Fairly idiot proof and very tweakable - results look fine.

Yes, my strategy for wmv in the future might be to convert in PC mode on my Mac (via VMWare Fusion).  I've already invested enough money in Mac versions of Episode and Squeeze, so maybe I'll try the cheap software you recommended.

Cheers, malcolm

Let us know how you get on. Bad news my end was that the client's own webwrangler, having asked for .wmv and divX files, then decided he'd get better quality ripping the DVD I also supplied (and had originally accepted the commission to supply, needless to say.)

Found this very confusing!

Keep trying to stick to film-making, drat these pesky formats...