flip4mac

Hi
just wanted a few opinions on the flip4mac application...has anyone used it as a compressor? if so waht problems have you encountered (if any) does it improve the qualifty of your footage particulary if you plan on streaming footage onto to the internet

regards
viktor

Flip4Mac does a good job.....not paraticularly speedy in quicktime to WMV conversion - but creates good looking streaming and standalone Windows Media Player. Check out Compression Master www.popwire.com if you are compressing to various formats....very speedy...multiple format conversion...batches etc....not inexpensive but does a great job. Also Sorenson Squeeze - however it uses (and you must purchase separately) Flip4mac as a component to compress windows media...and I've found in head to head comparisons...Compression Master is faster.

One of nicest things about Flip4mac is ability to play Windows Media within quicktime player and inside your web browser (works great with Firefox) ...the quality of playback is lightyears better than with Microsoft's own Windows Media Player for mac....plus you can scrub through pause etc the WMV within quicktime...something that is hit or miss or impossible in MS WMV Player for mac Andy

I think the converted wmv files from flip4mac look great. It IS slow so build in the time accordingly. You can also find it in Compressor and make a preset so you can batch encode.