Demo Reel = Freaking Out

[tealin]

Hooray! Copperbadge has come to the rescue. If you still want to see me losing my mind to Video Format Dysfunction, it's here.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

How do you convert a WMA to an AVI (or, in a perfect world, a MOV)? I can only use Windows Movie Maker to put together my clips (... as far as I know ...) and stupid Microsoft only saves in WMA format (unless there's some super secret hidden switch I cannot find) and AAAAH.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Maybe I can ... upload it to YouTube as a WMA ... then use that video grabber thing to save it as a Flash file ... then import it into Flash ... then export it as an AVI ... then somehow convert it to MOV ... Because THAT won't degrade the picture or sound quality at ALL! Does QuickTime Pro open WMAs? Maybe I should ask the tech guys, or someone at the school...

[whimper]

EDIT: Okay, well, here's a webby version of it (neither AVI nor MOV) so you can see what I'm freaking out over. It was all done five years ago (back when my drawings were so soft!) but it's pretty much all the animation I have. And somehow the audio has gotten a couple frames off sync. Gnurh.

Comments

[mothos.livejournal.com]

Media Coder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/index.htm) is a free open source transcoder that may be what you're looking for.

Quicktime Pro does do WMA to AVI.

Toast reportedly can too.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Media Coder only imports MOVs, so that's out... Glad to hear QTPro is a friendly one. Perhaps there's a computer around here that has it.

Toast? a.k.a. grilled bread? I'm guessing this is an amusingly named media program.

[mothos.livejournal.com]

Media Coder doesn't? Oops, I thought it did. Toast is disc burning software which I have just discovered is Mac only. But Roxio (toast's maker) do make a program called Copy and Convert. It's not free but there might be a demo that lasts long enough to serve your purposes.

Isn't WMA audio? Shouldn't you be converting WMV to AVI? I'm kind of lost in the Windows world.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Erm... yes, Windows local video file format, whatever it is. I suppose V makes more sense than A, doesn't it? Distressed! Not thinking clearly. Thanks for the heads up on Roxio; I'll check it out if the other options don't work. I seem to remember being really frustrated with something of theirs a while ago, possibly a burning software, but I'll give them a second chance.