Need to find a program (Free or Paid) for high bitrate HD WMV conversion

[Hoover1979]

I am planning to make a fix for the 2D cutscenes on my Steam version of a game called "Resident Evil HD Remaster" I discovered the reason the audio and video on these cutscenes go out of sync (Even though I well surpass the recommended requirements) is the video streams (WMV) have no sound and the audio for these cutscenes is in a seperate folder as renamed .OGG files.

I started work the other day, using PowerDirector 14 to combine the video and audio streams together, then I worked on touching up the video to remove the banding artifacts as best as I could (I can see Capcom just lazily grabbed the old Gamegube videos that were DVD res and upscaled them with bilinear filter and added some film grain). then I enabled Nvidia ShadowPlay and enabled Smooth Video Project and played the video in MPC-HC and enabled Desktop Capture and tidied it up back in power director.

End result. Visually improved 1080p cutscene with native 60fps and the audio in the movie file.

However I need to convert it to a WMV file and powerDirector has no option to set a custom output and the max is "1080p 25FPS, 10Mbps" as the original files were 30Fps I would lose framerate.

The Original soundless files are WMV 1080p, 20mbps, 30FPS and I want to save to WMV 1080p, 30Mbps, 60FPS.

If I can do this I can start testing by replacing the original cutscene file, deleting the Audio file (As it is now in the video) and start the game to see if it takes.

However I tried Format Factory and Any Video Convertor and got the same results. I set WMV9 30Mbps 1920x1080 60Fps. and got a heavily compressed 100mb file and although it was 1080p it looked like a 352x288 upscaled to 1920x1080 in nearest neighbor. At least it was 60fps.

If anyone knows a program where I can convert to a high quality 30mbps, 60FPS, 1080p WMV with, please assist.
If all works and I get all videos done I may upload a cutscene fix mod for others that own the game. (If I get can express written permission from Capcom)

[Baldrick]

Have you tried the old Windows Media Encoder? You can make custom profiles/adjust the bitrate and fps under Compression and Edit.

[El Heggunte]

Besides WME, you can also try microsoft Expression Encoder, or Mainconcept Reference.

[Hoover1979]

Thanks for the quick response guys. I will try the two freeware ones and if they don't work I will go the paid one.

EDIT: the first 2 programs were a bust for me (Windows Media Encoder and Microsoft Expression Encoder)

WME always fails. gives me 33 instances of the same error:

An operation requested for a particular time could not be carried out on schedule.(0xC00D002E)

And Microsoft Expression Encoder has an issue with the audio and won't let me encode. It seems it wants a non audio source and won't let me set anything in the target audio section and won't encode due to a source and target audio settings conflict. So Doing it without audio may improve the framerate of the cutscenes but the audio/video sync issue would persist and may get even worse with 2x the framerate in the video.

I will have to look into the third one but it will be some time until I get the cash together to buy it. It is $449.00USD ($461USD with Paypal) so for me it is over $651.00AUD ($669AUD with Paypal + Paypal currency conversion fee) which is a ****load of cash for one conversion task. Even PowerDirector 14 was significantly cheaper and does all I need except for custom WMV encoding.

This job is going to either send me to the Poorhouse or the Nuthouse!

EDIT2: I gave Expression Encoder another go and got it to encode (Don't know why it wouldn't work first time) and am encoding as I type this edit. In half an hour it should be done and I can test it first by running the video file and second to import it into the game, remove the audio only file and test it ingame. I hope it passes both tests.