At 20:57 -0400 6/8/10, M Christol wrote: >FCP doesn't read .wmv natively. >If you have Flip 4 Mac Pro it should work because that is a Quicktime Plug In. >If you don't have the Pro version of Flip 4 Mac, it is probably just going to >waste your time importing a file with a big ugly watermark. >AFAIK, you have to pay money to interpret .wmv on a Mac.
I have had some luck on a Linux box using mencoder to expand wmv into avi. A second pass with ffmpeg can then convert the avi to, for me MPEG, but other choices are available. Perhaps not Apple's MOVIE though mencoder is part of mplayer. ffmpeg probably uses some of the code. All should work OK on OS neXt but you would have to install them from source or perhaps through one of the porting systems. You will surely be into operations with Terminal.app. The ffmpeg step will convert images to pixels using a screen-ready intermediate step so it's possible that some fidelity is lost. The command lines I used came from the internet and I don't claim to be an expert. Ask if you would like my notes which are in a text file. wmv and avi are both collector formats. Internally there can be a whole lot of divers encoders in play. The headers somehow identify what will be used and many are proprietary. -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <-- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
