Okay, another question on the off-chance that someone here might have some Windows Media encoding experience.
I'm trying to prep a couple WMV files for delivery to a rather well-known online gaming service. Might be a trailer or something for something. I couldn't say.
In any event, I'm having trouble creating a file. Obviously I'm doing all my editing on a Mac in Final Cut. I've gotten back finished stuff from an outside house, including 5.1 surround sound stems as individual AIFFs. Since Flip4Mac's Studio Pro HD encoding components support surround encoding, I figured all I'd have to do is slap all six stems in the QuickTime file, do their channel assignments correctly, save the file, and then export using the proper settings in Flip4Mac.
WRONG.
When I play the resultant file (whose video looks great, I might point out), it seems at least the center channel is missing, if not others. In fact, it seems only the L and R channels get through (and they might actually be the Ls and Rs material). No dialogue anyway. Not good. Can't very well put that out for people to see.
So, does anyone here happen to have any experience with either Flip4Mac's encoder and can say "yes, that crap is broken" or "here's how you fix it," because Flip4Mac's documentation is... spotty, at best. Or, alternatively, how can I get my assets over to the PC so I can use Microsoft's free Windows Media Encoder to create a file that will work? Right now if I try to spit out an uncompressed AVI from QuickTime WME balks at it.
I'm trying to prep a couple WMV files for delivery to a rather well-known online gaming service. Might be a trailer or something for something. I couldn't say.
In any event, I'm having trouble creating a file. Obviously I'm doing all my editing on a Mac in Final Cut. I've gotten back finished stuff from an outside house, including 5.1 surround sound stems as individual AIFFs. Since Flip4Mac's Studio Pro HD encoding components support surround encoding, I figured all I'd have to do is slap all six stems in the QuickTime file, do their channel assignments correctly, save the file, and then export using the proper settings in Flip4Mac.
WRONG.
When I play the resultant file (whose video looks great, I might point out), it seems at least the center channel is missing, if not others. In fact, it seems only the L and R channels get through (and they might actually be the Ls and Rs material). No dialogue anyway. Not good. Can't very well put that out for people to see.
So, does anyone here happen to have any experience with either Flip4Mac's encoder and can say "yes, that crap is broken" or "here's how you fix it," because Flip4Mac's documentation is... spotty, at best. Or, alternatively, how can I get my assets over to the PC so I can use Microsoft's free Windows Media Encoder to create a file that will work? Right now if I try to spit out an uncompressed AVI from QuickTime WME balks at it.