killmoms
11th July 2008, 01:57
So, I'm trying to prep a Windows Media file that contains Windows Media 9 Professional multichannel surround audio. Unfortunately, my source files are coming from QuickTime (Final Cut Pro editing system) and so I'm trying to use Telestream's WMV Components for QuickTime (Studio Pro HD) to create the file. I can encode the video fine, but the audio seems to be more problematic. I have all six surround stems in my source QuickTime file with the proper channel assignments and have set up a flip4Mac preset that should encode surround audio but for whatever reason the resulting file doesn't have all the channels present in playback (on PCs in Windows Media Player or on the Xbox 360). I don't know if surround encoding is broken in flip4Mac or what, but I need to get this file prepared today or tomorrow or it's my head.
So, my question is, what's the best way to proceed? Do I take the six stems across to individual WAV files and use Microsoft's free Windows Media Encoder to make the file? (The reason I wasn't doing this already was because I couldn't find a way to make an uncompressed AVI from the source QuickTime file that Windows Media Encoder would recognize).
Essentially, if anyone here has any Windows Media Encoder experience and can help guide me through this process, that'd be awesome, because right now I'm feeling a little lost.
So, my question is, what's the best way to proceed? Do I take the six stems across to individual WAV files and use Microsoft's free Windows Media Encoder to make the file? (The reason I wasn't doing this already was because I couldn't find a way to make an uncompressed AVI from the source QuickTime file that Windows Media Encoder would recognize).
Essentially, if anyone here has any Windows Media Encoder experience and can help guide me through this process, that'd be awesome, because right now I'm feeling a little lost.