Question: I work on a Mac with Final Cut. Many times I send videos to churches to be played in the service. Most churches are using Windows machines and some form of presentation software like MediaShout. Often times they don’t have the quicktime codecs installed and so they can only play Windows native video formats. WMV seems to be the logical choice. Am I wrong? I have not found a good file converter for the Mac that converts to WMV. I don’t really want to spend $50 on Flip4Mac Studio as I don’t charge the churches anything for the videos. Is WMV the best choice and if so, can you recommend a good converter for the Mac that doesn’t cost $50?

Answer: A few ideas come to mind:

1. Churches who have the VLC media player can play any video format without issues.

2. Have them download the codecs – most are free – or provide it for them with your videos

3. If you really have to convert to .wmv try using this free online converter

Other than that, there’s really no free wmv/mac conversion software. I found Flip4Mac to be the best, and worth the extra $

4. There are default formats supported by Windows Media Player here

5. The cheapest I know of is the combination of Flip4Mac WMV Studio and iMovie or QuickTime Pro.

6. Download Visual Hub (now called FilmRedux).

7. Export the movie as uncompressed full quality DV and then run it through Windows Media Encoder

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