I plan on buying a Mac Pro as soon as Leopard comes out and I had a few questions. Does anyone know if you can render in the .wmv or .x264 codecs in Final Cut Express HD? I've seen this program in action and I think I can get really great quality especially with two Nvidia 7300 GT's and two Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz processors. If anyone can help that would be great ;-).
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Rendering in .wmv or .x264
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Lets not all answer at once now.. haha actually pay no attention to that other question answer this please: what if I wanted a movie to be widely visible to Windows users as well as Mac users. A format that could maybe be played in Windows Media Player?
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Windows media is reasonably universal up to version 9, then is gets complex, so I would not go with that.
h.264 is pretty much an MPEG4 ad-on, is a standard and can be played on almost any machine that can run Quicktime. In fact, any MPEG output can play on most machines that have the appropriate CODEC. h.264 is quite resource intensive, so you have to have a fast CPU to decode it. MPEG2 files can be very large, but can be played on virtually any machine made in the last 8 years.
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