WMV Advanced 9 Profile on MAC

[jsternberg_CP]

Hello,

I create LED animated signs for my company and use AE on a Mac Pro. These LED signs can only display .wmv Advanced 9 profile (8,000 bps) exports. The problem is that I am unable to render to this profile using a Mac computer. My current process is to render the project as an animation (.mov), drag the video to a shared drive, import the file to After Effects on the PC, then render to the wmv Advanced 9 profile from there. It's painful, and I hope to find a better solution for this process. The key factor in all this is that I would like to eliminate my PC all together and take care of everything on my Mac.

Can you help?

Thanks!

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

Not really, but feel free to wear out your purse on Flip4Mac --> Play Windows Media on your Mac &#x7c Telestream Flip4Mac &#x7c Overview . You're going to need the Studio Pro HD edition to gain control over advanced features.

Mylenium

[jsternberg_CP]

Thank you! I found some information on this software earlier and was wondering a few things. Is there a way to customize dimensions rather than use a preset? For example, the LED's have weird ratios like: 288 x 240, 1712 x 112 and 736 x 96. I don't want to stretch anything or be forced to use a preset ratio.

[Mylenium]

I can't answer any of that specifically. We only used it eons ago to encode standard resolutions. The way I remember it, though, you are limited in resolutions since you cannot access all CoDec options on a Mac, so this may not work for you, after all. Anyway, you might want to ask their sales department or just download the demo. It should allow you to encode clips for 7 days or something like that if they are no longer than 30 seconds. This should allow to explore the settings. If not, I'm sure they can generate a temporary license key.

Mylenium