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Encoding Clips

Create your RealAudio and RealVideo clips with RealProducer (a free product) or RealProducer Plus. These tools have easy-to-use, wizard-driven interfaces that let you quickly produce a streaming clip from a standard audio or video input format, such as WAV, AVI, or QuickTime. They encode files as RealAudio or RealVideo, both of which use the .rm file extension.

Additional Information
You can download and purchase RealProducer tools at http://www.realnetworks.com/products/index.html.

When you run the wizards to encode a file, be sure to choose a single-rate clip for Web server hosting. As described in "Limitations on Web Server Playback", Web servers cannot host SureStream clips encoded for multiple playback rates. Also note that single-rate clips support only RealPlayer G2 or higher. Earlier versions of RealPlayer, such as RealPlayer 5.0, cannot play these clips.

Choosing Single-Rate Clips in the Recording Wizard

Additional Information
For background on preparing video and audio files for encoding, as well as improving audio quality with a sound editor, see the audio and video production chapters in RealSystem G2 Production Guide.


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