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[goodcow]

Basically, I just need to output files that are readable by Windows, such that I can encode them with Windows Media Encoder.

I've tried...

1) MPEGStreamclip - Any of the "AVI" codecs I pick seem to rely on Quicktime codecs, which both Windows Media Encoder and VirtualDub can't open and error out on. Other formats, like MP4 using H.264 also cause WME to error.
2) QuickTime Pro - If I try to output an uncompressed AVI, and it gets over 2GB (not a FAT32 limitation), the file will work on Windows, but only after I have VirtualDub reconstruct the corrupt index file and output another uncompressed AVI of it. This process takes far, far too long.
3) Flip4Mac - The encoding options aren't flexible enough for me, nor did I like the test encoding results from the demo version
4) ffmpegX - If I drag finished HDV files into it and try to convert to XviD or DivX, ffmpegX just errors out, saying it can't open the file, even though I can convert these same HDV files fine to iPod video format.

I'm fine, in terms of drive space outputting uncompressed AVIs to convert to WMV, but I don't want to have to reconstruct the file indexes in VirtualDub before I can proceed.

How can I just simply take a video file I'm done with on the Mac, and output it to a high quality, Windows (and Windows Media Encoder) complaint file so I can convert it to WMV?

Thanks.

 

[OnkelC]

visualhub, perhaps?
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

 

[goodcow]

visualhub, perhaps?
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

Nope.

Visualhub relies on ffmpegX anyway.

 

[Servbot #42]

i dunno if this will help but how about divx converter?

 

[goodcow]

i dunno if this will help but how about divx converter?

Doesn't support HDV.

I guess I can try it with other content (and for HDV content convert it to PNG Quicktime via MPEGStreamclip first), but I'd really like to minimize the steps required here.

It really shouldn't be this difficult to make an AVI that's Windows complaint over 2GB.