Re: WINDOWS MEDIA FILE EDITOR - HELP!!!

Hi Neil,

Thank you for your advice.....I'm very grateful and will look into it.

Cheers

Jason

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> Yes, well this has changed somewhat since v4 which uesd flat text
> files.The "script" file is now an XML file format - which is generally
> a *good thing* as it can be machine processed easily with scripts.
>
> But editing in notepad is going to be a much more hazardous than
> before (You might want to look at programs like microsofts XML Notepad
> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xmlnotepad.html or XMLSpy
> http://www.altova.com/products_ide.html before going further).
>
> The actual file format (because it's XML) can be defined by a DTD
> document, so the format is documented here :
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmencode/htm/thebasiceditconfigurationfile.asp
>
> A sample file is here : Try this and then in the file editor go to
> File->Import Header File and see if that reproduces the example
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmencode/htm/sampleconfigurationfile.asp
>
> And finally, if you want to create let's say a visual basic
> application to do this, then you'd need to read here for the example :
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmencode/htm/postprocessing.asp
>
> To be honest if you're mixing slides and markers with video, you might
> want to consider looking at Producer (even though it's also getting
> quite old now) cause it's designed to work with Powerpoint to automate
> some of the production and publishing for you :
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/technologies/producer.aspx
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:26:01 -0700, "JM"
> <JM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I am in desperate need of some help with Windows media File Editor (WMFE).
> >FOr a long time now we have been using Windows media Encoder 4 (Old I know
> >but it is all our clients protocol supports) and with this, been encoding asf
> >files, and then, indexing the asf with slides and markers to be played back
> >later. Some of these asfs have up to 80 individual markers The process of
> >enetering these was via a notepad template which we added the times into, and
> >then, imported that template into media Encoder 4's ASF indexer. This,
> >although took a little time was quicker than individually going through and
> >adding each marker point through the indexer.
> >
> >So, therein lies the problem. I can't sem to be able to do this with Media
> >Encoder 9. It doesn't recognize the same script file as I once used...get
> >the error 'It is not possible to import the specified header file...'
> >
> >If anyone can let me know a way that I can import an easy template into WMFE
> >it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
.

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