Completely befuddled - WMV conversion to MPEG-2?

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

I have a vid done in Windows Movie Maker. I'd like to submit to Escapade, but the instructions are as good as Greek to me. Can anyone help me figure out what I need to do to change the file to meet these requirements?

Electronic Submission:

1. Your vid should be submitted as two separate files: A video file encoded in MPEG-2, at 720x480 full-screen resolution, NTSC, using a 5500-6500 kpbs bitrate, and saved with an "m2v" suffix, and an audio file encoded at 48kz in WAV or AIFF format.
2. Each vid must have 10-30 seconds of silent black space at the beginning and end.
3. Use the following naming convention:

vidpriority_yourname_songtitle.{wav,m2v}
(Note: leave out spaces, all punctuation and special characters)

Example:
The files for the first-priority vid submitted by vidder Super-Amazing Vidder!! to the song I'm A Little Teapot would be named:
1_superamazingvidder_imalittleteapot.m2v
1_superamazingvidder_imalittleteapot.wav


When I look at the saving options for WMV, these are my options. I have no clue if any of those match up with the requirements above:



Any advice or easy answer?

Thanks!

Laura

Comments

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't know what Escapade is but as far as I know, WMM can only render as WMV and AVI (which will result in a huge file if it's using the basic uncompressed AVI codec). On its own, I don't believe it can encode as MPEG-2, I'm sorry to say. :(

There may be a freeware program that can convert it from WMV into MPEG-2 but I haven't come across it so far. :(

Wow, I'm just full of bad news, huh? Sorry! ;)

PS - Now I'm curious, though. What is Escapade? ;) And are they really asking you to submit your vid as a separate video file and WAV file? In other words, to separate the music from the video? Or am I reading that wrong? Thanks! :D

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

And oops, sorry I crossposted there... ;)

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

Yep, both. Confuses me too and I'm really new to vidding and WMV is the only software I have. :(

I'm saving it to dvd-avi and see if I can change *that*, but thanks so much for the advice!

Escapade is a slash con in California: http://www.escapadecon.net/index.php

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for telling me about Escapade and thanks also for the link! ;) I read the submission info and I see they won't accept WMV. You might be able to email and explain that you only have WMM and can't meet their MPEG-2 requirements and they may be willing to accept the AVI file. I see that they are willing to accept VHS submissions, though they warn that the quality will be lower because of it. And AVI is much better than VHS, lol! ;)

They're just trying to get the best quality vids that they can, understandably since they'll probably be shown on a large screen and lower quality vids will blur out to nothing when they get magnified that large! o_O ;)

Anyway, best of luck to you! Happy vidding! :D

[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

thanks so much, Aislynn!