Cant Use WMV Files

cjohnson6 wrote on 11/22/2001, 3:48 PM

Why can't I put .WMV files on the timeline. I also cant import them to use in Video Factory. Does anyone know why?

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discdude wrote on 11/22/2001, 9:45 PM

That's cuz Video Factory doesn't support opening of WMV (and WMA) files. You can make them but you can't open them with Video Factory.

The mighty Vegas Video 3 can open WMV files so I assume that Video Factory will gain that functionality sometime in the future (VF3?).

kkolbo wrote on 11/25/2001, 8:20 PM

Very few products can open and decode the wmv format. MS holds the patent and is very tight about it. Transcoding from wmv to anything else is rare.

k

DirkyBoy wrote on 11/27/2001, 12:23 PM

If you need a file previously encoded as a WMV file, you can convert it to MPEG using "Cleaner 5". Thre are others out there that may possibly work as well (TMPEG? Don't know...) but I have seen some FREEWARE multimedia video utilities claiming to be able to convert WMV files to another format. If you want to keep the quality as best you can, however, I would suggest uncompressed .avi so you're not re-compressing an already mpeg-compressed file :)

Hope this helps... I had a segment in WMV I needed to import into VF2 and this is how I did it.