Summary
Terrific product for exporting Windows Media streaming video and audio files from Quicktime-based applications
Target Apps
Importing and exporting Windows Media files from QuickTime-based applications
What It Costs You
$179
What's Cool
SD and HD presets, custom preset creation, metadata input window, B-frame support, encoding speed options, advanced compression options and decoding of VC-1 content. Support for Simple or Main profiles plus broadcast profile support in WMV 9 Advanced.
What's Missing
Ability to trim video and audio files, an output file preview window and batch compression capability. It would also be nice to be able to crop video sources.
Specs
Intel or PowerPC Mac OS X versions 10.3.9 and 10.4 or later; QuickTime versions 6.5 and 7.0 or later (for playback of Windows Media content); QuickTime Pro Versions 6.5 and 7.0 or later (for export to Windows Media content)
REVIEW: Telestream Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD 2.1.1
Solving an Important Workflow Issue
Derrick Freeman
October 1, 2007 Source: Studio Monthly
Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD (version 2.1.1) solves an important workflow issue for those of you who need to get your video and audio content in the Windows Media format for downloadable, real-time streaming, mobile devices and other output formats. This is a terrific tool that does one-pass and two-pass encoding and imports and exports Windows Media content. It also does HD Windows Media encoding from QuickTime-based applications— easily converting DV, Motion JPEG-A, Motion JPEG-B and Photo-JPEG QuickTime videos. If you’re working in a nonlinear editor, such as Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro, you can export to Windows Media directly from your timeline. Flip4Mac also lets you export Windows Media content from applications such as iMovie, Cleaner, Sorenson Squeeze, QuickTime Pro and Compressor.
Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD comes with a host of compression presets for creating Windows Media content. The included presets range from low-bit rate dial-up to high-bit rate HD. If you know your target audience, you can easily select a preset and then export your files. Flip4Mac caters nicely to both beginners in compression as well as to more advanced users. Beginners will love the included presets, while advanced users should appreciate the ability to create custom Windows Media presets.
Compression Presets
Metadata Input
If you need to input metadata with the video and audio files you’re encoding, you’ll find a tab for this within Flip4Mac. In the Content tab, you can include information such as title, author, description, copyright and rating. Each compression preset can save specific metadata information.
Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD also features advanced settings for keyframe, every frequency, buffer size, B-frames and frame input/output type. One of the biggest benefits here is that users can have control over how fast their media files encode by adjusting the coding complexity in the Advanced options for video. Again, this is a terrific tool with a reasonable price point that squarely delivers on promised features.
Comments (4) for "ROI Review: AJA Ki Pro"
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Flip4Mac is a plugin so it works in Compressor also. In Compressor you can certainly crop the video and use Compressor's processing filters.
Flip4Mac works in Final Cut Pro, Express, iMovie, Squeeze, Cleaner too. All this in addition to QuickTime Pro.
Posted by craig on Friday, October 12, 2007 @ 09:54 AM
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When will flip4wmv support MS Photo Story 3 which yses MS codec wmv10?? We use this software for narration of stories, but can not send to a Mac user.
Posted by Bill on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 @ 12:20 PM
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I am finding that a QT H264 (MPEG4-10) encoded 720x30p or 720x25p still chokes when viewed in QT on a Windows XP Dual Core computer. Is there a way to increase the compress in Flip4Mac to minimize video degredation and still not stutter during playback ?
Posted by LR Walker on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 @ 04:30 PM
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thanks
Posted by James R McDonald on Saturday, August 30, 2008 @ 12:41 PM
