Any way to speed up Flip4Mac?

I'm having one hell of a night, and apologize for being a pest.
Is there any way to get flip4mac to render faster? I'm in danger of missing deadline.

I'll answer my question now. Don't do an "export" when trying to save a WMV as a QT. Do a Save As. This saved me an hour of render time.

Not that you can do now. A faster computer is probably your only option. Rendering takes its time. I wish the little bar would do something interesting, like, I dunno, progressively draw a picture, or read me a story or something. Invest my money wisely on the stock market and show me a little graph of my wealth increasing.

Of course, that would pull processing power away from the actual rendering...

> Don't do an "export" when trying to save a WMV as a QT. Do a Save As.

That doesn't work without Flip4Mac. It puts a WMV into a QuickTime wrapper; the underlying codec will still be Windows Media, not a QuickTime codec. If you are making the file for somebody who only has QuickTime, for example, s/he won't be able to see it without Flip4Mac.

For a true conversion, an export is the only way.


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We like Episode -- it's not cheap but it's the Swiss army knife of compressors -- from anything to anything and its WMV conversions are very quick.

Episode is far more flexible than Compressor. It has many more filter capabilities and far more input/output formats than Compressor will support. You can also use multi processors to divide big job among many processors or computers.

go here: Telestream Episode Engine

Flip4Mac is great for viewing WMV in quicktime -- not as great (or fast) for converting back the other way. We get far better results with Episode

Going to WMV. 1 Pass encode, Advanced, Complexity, Live Fast. The cost will be quality.
Exporting to MOV is all up to Quicktime as any other MOV encode. Wrapping to MOV if you're just using to edit locally which is Save or Save As as someone else noted.
If your business depends on it (speed), get Episode as someone else noted.