Saving a Windows Media Format File |
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Saving a file in Windows Media Format renders your file in a compressed format for streaming over the Internet. For more information about Windows Media Technologies, refer to the Microsoft Web site.
Click anywhere in the data window to select it.
From the File menu, choose Save
As or click the Save
As button on the toolbar
to display the Save
As dialog.
Use the Save As dialog to specify a folder and file name.
Choose Windows Media Audio (*.wma) or Windows Media (*.asf) from the Save as type drop-down list.
Click the Save button to display the Save to Windows Media dialog.
Choose an encoding template from the Template drop-down list. For information about creating your own templates, click here.
If you want to create a redirector file, select the Generate Redirector files check box and click the ASX Settings button. For more information about redirector files, click here.
Enter summary information about your media file in the Properties boxes. This information can be displayed by the Windows Media Player, and the Rating setting (None, G, PG, or R) can be used to prevent distribution of inappropriate material to vulnerable Internet users when using a content-sensitive Web browser.
Select the Use markers in the source file check box if you want to include any markers that are defined in the source file. If the checkbox is unchecked, the encoder will ignore the markers.
Select the Use script commands in the source file check box if you want to include any script commands that are defined in the source file. If the checkbox is unchecked, the encoder will ignore the commands.
Click the OK button.
Click anywhere in the data window to select it.
From the File menu, choose Save
As or click the Save
As button on the toolbar
to display the Save
As dialog.
Use the Save As dialog to specify a folder and file name.
Choose Windows Media Audio (*.wma) or Windows Media (*.asf) from the Save as type drop-down list.
Click the Save button to display the Save to Windows Media dialog.
Click the Custom button on the Save to Windows Media dialog to create a new template, or select a template from the Template drop-down list and click Edit to edit an existing template.
Only
custom encoding templates can be selected for editing.
Enter or edit the template name and description and click the Next button. This information is used to identify the template on the Save to Windows Media dialog.
Specify the bandwidths for which the encoding template will be used:
Click the radio button that corresponds to the type of connection your target audience will use to connect to the Internet and click the Next button.
If you're encoding an AVI file, you can choose Use multiple bit-rate video or Single bit-rate video. A multiple-bandwidth video file includes multiple video streams in a single file and can switch to a lower bandwidth to compensate for network congestion.
Using
multiple-bit-rate video requires an encoding platform that has at
least a Pentium II processor running at 266 megahertz (MHz).
Multiple-bit-rate video content can only be accurately decoded by
Windows Media Player 3.0 and Windows Media Server 3.0 or higher.
Specify whether Sound Forge should resample the audio component of your file:
a. Select the Resample prior to encode check box to enable audio resampling using Sonic Foundry's algorithms.
b. Click the down arrow to the right of the Resample rate drop-down list and select a new sampling rate.
High
sampling rates produce high-quality audio, but can result in
stuttering audio with low-speed Internet connections. When the check
box is cleared, codecs resample audio using default resampling algorithms.
c. Click the Next button.
Choose audio and video codecs.
a. Click the down arrow and select an audio codec from the drop-down list.
If
the selected codec has multiple formats available, use the Format
drop-down list to select the amount or type of compression. The
format of a codec is the sampling rate (in kilohertz [kHz] or hertz
[Hz]) and sample depth (in bits). The larger the sampling rate and
sample depth, the more information is recorded. When more information
is recorded, the audio content usually sounds better; however, the
audio portion of the total bandwidth allocated is also larger.
Remember that the audio file must share the bandwidth with any video
or script commands.
b. Select the Use Video check box if the encoding template will be used with video files.
c. Click the down arrow and select a video codec from the drop-down list.
d. Click the Advanced button to display the Advanced Video Settings dialog.
Click the Finish button.
You can use the Save to Windows Media dialog to set up parameters for creating a redirector file for your encoded Windows Media Format presentation.
The Save to Windows Media Format dialog is displayed when you choose Windows Media Audio (*.wma) or Windows Media (*.asf) from the Save as type drop-down list and click the Save button on the Save As dialog.
Select the Generate redirector files check box.
Click the ASX Settings button. The ASX Settings dialog is displayed.
In the ASF server path box, specify the path where the Windows Media Format file will be stored on the Web server. This is the directory path where you will transfer your media file with an FTP program.
Select the Use alternate destination folder for ASX files check box if your redirector file will be stored in a different folder than your media file.
Click the Browse button to specify a folder.
Specify the amount of the file that you want the redirector file to play back. If the Play start position and Play length settings are set to 0 (default), the entire file will be played.
a. In the Play start position box, specify the start of a segment that will be played from the encoded file. This information is stored in the redirector file.
b. In the Play length box, specify the length of a segment that will be played from the encoded file. This information is stored in the redirector file.
By
specifying a Play
start position and a Play
length in a
redirector file, you may create multiple playback options using a
single encoded file. For example, one redirector link on an HTML page
might play a ten-second preview of a video, while another link plays
the entire file.
Click the OK button.