The Ultra-High Quality WMV idea worked for the EYNTO show. Am now transencoding to XViD; using RAD Video Tools (free!). Those tools also saved me when I found out that the audio for the movie files taken by my digital camera were at the wrong rate, permitting me to transencode to AVI files w/o this audio hurdle.
As far as I’m aware, this is the only program that can convert WMV to XViD as well.
Update: Using VirtualDubMod to process the 2nd processing render for the XViD, as RAD can’t recognize its non-standard (maligned) output of the first. At least I can use it now, as the files are no longer unrecognizeable WMVs, but AVIs. Next up: rendering into MPG for DVD output.