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   Alfa & Omega, a company located in Norway, is using Flip4Mac Studio Pro in    conjunction with Final Cut Pro to export files to clients with PCs.  Without Flip4Mac, the    company would be unable to send the files to these clients. 
   “I cannot deliver without Flip4Mac,” concludes Anders Roede a member of Alfa &    Omega.  “It is absolutely essential.”
Aries Production Inc., located in Texas, purchased Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro to upload editing revisions for client review.  Before this software, Aries Productions could only send .mpg or .mov files to their clients, which are not compatible with Windows Media player. 
“Flip4Mac saves on shipping and increases compatibility for Mac users whose clients are Windows users,” said Wynn Winberg of Aries Production.
   Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chris Craig Productions    provides digital media production services.  They use Flip4Mac WMV    to convert video programs, produced in Final Cut Pro and After Effect,    into Windows Media for review and final distribution on the web.    Before Flip4Mac, converting video clips was a complicated process    that involved outputting a large uncompressed QuickTime movie from a Mac NLE, converting it to an .AVI file with QuickTime Pro, and transferring it to a PC where WMV files were created for review and distribution. 
“These redundant steps created time inefficiencies and required an inordinate amount of disk space,” explains producer Chris Craig.  “Now, in one step, I can create high-quality WMV files and tag the fields with title, author, description and copyright information for immediate distribution.”
   Hans Eklundh, of eklundh.com, located in Sweden, purchased Flip4Mac    WMV Studio Pro so he could view Windows Media files in his Mac web    browser and convert QuickTime files to the Windows Media format. 
   “Flip4Mac gives me much more flexibility,” says Hans Eklundh.  “I prefer    QuickTime, but I can now easily publish both in QuickTime and Windows    versions.”
   Frame Productions is a full-service video production    company, located in Southern California, that specializes in    corporate work and non-fiction television for clients nationwide.  In order for project teams and collaborates to be involved in the review of cuts in-progress, Frame Productions encodes the videos, using Flip4Mac WMV and posts them on a password-protected Client Extranet for clients to view.  Flip4Mac eliminates a two step process for Frame Productions and allows them to encode straight from Final Cut Pro.
“Our business is simply to deliver what our clients need, when they need it,” comments Dan Zukowski, a principal at Frame Productions.  “Streaming media is an essential capability; some of our projects never go to tape or disc.  In addition, the ability to reliably deliver cuts or work-in-progress to clients in multiple locations simultaneously is a key selling point for us in working with global Fortune 500 firms and their agencies.” 
Frame Productions clients include Verizon Wireless, Shell, Sony, and Kia.
  Orlando, FL based, GeniusDV is a digital video editing training   center.  Their classes include Avid Express HD and Final Cut   Studio.  In addition, the company offers a one day video   streaming and compression class.  Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD is one of the software applications that is featured in this class.
“Flip4Mac is an ideal product to highlight in our class because it allows QuickTime Pro and Final Cut Pro users to compress Windows Media downloadable and real-time streaming files straight from the application,” says Derrick Freeman, the video streaming and compression specialist for GeniusDV.
GeniusDV also shows their customers how to compress video in Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite using the Flip4Mac WMV Export Component.  “This is a huge benefit for our customers that have workflows doing batch compression of multiple files,” adds Freeman.  Visit their website at www.GeniusDV.com. 
InterMountain Digital, located in Ashland, Oregon, InterMountain edits corporate videos using Final Cut Studio 5.1.  They use Flip4Mac Studio Pro HD within Final Cut Pro to convert their video clips to the Windows Media format. 
“Flip4Mac has opened a new window, so to speak, for us,” comments Mark K. Brown of InterMountain Digital.  “Now we have the confidence to tell other clients we can deliver broadcast quality webstreams.  We are currently working with a new client on a series of testimonials to appear on their website.  Another client saw what we delivered to the Shakespeare Festival and has a keen interest in giving us their business.”
Lyman Gilmore Middle School students in Grass Valley, California, use Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro to convert Windows Media files to QuickTime files.  These QuickTime files are used for school projects such as Power Point presentations and animation. 
“Students now have greater access to web video content that they can edit and add to school-based projects,” says Stan Lathrop, a teacher at Lyman Gilmore.
Maximum Digital Communications, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, shoots and edits movies.  They use Flip4Mac WMV to convert their videos to WMV files for viewing by their PC customers.  
Currently, Maximum Digital Communications is shooting “lifestyle videos” for a project called “My Coorslife” (www.mycoorslife.com).  They also produce music videos for Scion of Puerto Rico.
“Here at the studio, we use Macs, but because this is a world of PCs, we have to deliver the final product in Windows Media format,” explains Luis Castro.  “Flip4Mac enables us to convert files to the WMV format and send copies of works-in-progress through email for client approval.”
   Located in Wales, Radiant Productions uses Flip4Mac WMV    Studio in conjunction with Final Cut Pro to produce WMV files    for draft copies of films.
“The fact (that) we can export clips straight out of FCP (Final Cut Pro) saves us a lot of time,” said Adrian Lort-Phillips, Director of Radiant Productions.  “The clients already love the clientside service we offer, but this quick turnaround gives them a really rapid service when time is tight.  We save time and money in workflow, they (the clients) love us more.  How can we do better than that?”
   Located near Philadelphia, Stanford Creative is an    independent production company that specializes in  one-    man-band” documentary style videos and believes in    “persuasion through reality.”  Prior to Flip4Mac, Stanford Creative could not post WMV files and their clients got frustrated when movie files would not open in QuickTime.“Flip4Mac has become almost a daily part of my editing workflow,” comments Ron Stanford, director of Stanford Creative. 
“I use Final Cut Pro to edit documentaries for clients who use them in a variety of media.  I post WMV files for approval throughout the life of my projects, so that more people can view them without difficulty, unlike QuickTime movies.” 
Flip4Mac speeds up the approval process, making life easier for Stanford Creative and their clients.
Wendy Shapard is a school teacher working with a high percentage of low-income students, many of whom are still learning English.  To improve the effectiveness of her curriculum, the school district purchased a membership to United Streaming, an online resource for educational video clips.  Shapard was downloading these clips on her Mac and burning them to a DVD so she could play them on the television for her students and then would pass them around to other teachers.  However, Shapard ran into a problem when United Streaming eliminated support for QuickTime.  Flip4Mac fixed her problem. 
“After downloading the trial software, I tried streaming the video I wanted.  It worked flawlessly,” says Wendy Shapard.  “I tried downloading the clip and import it to iMovie.  No problem.  I tried sending the clip directly to iDVD.  It worked like a charm!  In fact, compared to trying to even install Windows Media Player, Flip4Mac was darn near miraculous.  I was back on (the) website and ready to purchase the full version within half an hour.” 
Now, Shapard can import the movie clips from United Streaming into iMovie, and then she sends the clips to iDVD to burn them onto a DVD just as she did before.