wmv problem?

diesoft · Post by **diesoft** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:30 am

Hey, guys. I've kinda new to video studio, so don't kill me!

I like using this program a lot to join together various different clips and also to change its format to make it smaller harddrive space. Which then comes the problem: I've been doing it fine before I had to reinstall my computer, but after I reinstalled, I've found that I can't convert other file formats to .wmv. I loved taking a large .avi and compressing it to a .wmv.

But for whatever reason, when I click on share, create video file, then custom and try to fiddle with the settings when trying to save it as a .wmv, it won't let me change it to what i want. The profile now only seem to think I have windows media player 8 and severely limits the choices I can have. I have media player 10 and don't know why it's doing that now. What can I do to fix this? Is this a simple fix?

MAN, I hope that made SOME sense to somebody who understands what I'm talking about...

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:42 am

The version of MediaPlayer doesn't matter, it's the version of Windows Media Encoder that's installed that gives you the WMV profile options. The latest is WME9;

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... fault.aspx

Personally I prefer to export an *.avi then use WME to do the encoding as it's UI is a bit better than working through the Ulead (or anyone elses) encoding dialog.