ODG to WMV Converter

ODG to WMV — When a Windows Media Pipeline Wants a Drawing

ODG (OpenDocument Graphics) is the vector drawing format of LibreOffice Draw and Apache OpenOffice Draw — an editable canvas of shapes, text and embedded images. WMV (Windows Media Video) is Microsoft's video format, carried inside an Advanced Systems Format container. This converter renders the drawing and holds each page as a silent, motionless frame, which is the right file only when a Windows Media tool, an old Movie Maker project or a legacy PowerPoint workflow refuses everything else. For anything else, a picture or an MP4 is the better answer.

What You Keep and What You Lose Going ODG to WMV

If a normal, usable file is what you actually want, these keep far more of the drawing: ODG to PDF for printing or sharing with the geometry intact, ODG to SVG for something still scalable and editable, ODG to PNG for a lossless picture, and ODG to MP4 for a still-as-video that plays on phones and browsers instead of only on Windows.

How to Convert ODG to WMV

1. Upload Your ODG File: Drag the .odg onto the page or click "+ Add Files". Upload several and pick "Merge images" under Merge strategy for one combined clip, or "Video per image" for a separate WMV per file.
2. Set the Image Duration: Under Image Duration → Duration, choose how long each rendered page is held — from a 1/60-second frame up to 10 seconds, with 5 seconds the default when you change nothing.
3. Choose the Codec, Quality and Resolution: Video Codec offers WMV2 (preselected, the Windows Media Video 8 codec) and WMV1. Leave Quality Preset on "Very High (Recommended)" under File Compression, and set Video resolution — "Keep original", a preset, or an exact Width x Height — to the size the destination expects.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save the .wmv. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours. No sign-up, no watermark.

WMV Format at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does this rasterize my drawing, and can I keep it scalable?

An ODG is vector — shapes and paths that resize without loss. A video frame is a grid of pixels, so the page has to be rendered onto a fixed grid before it can be encoded, and from that point it is no longer scalable. If keeping the drawing scalable matters, ODG to SVG exports the real vector geometry through LibreOffice Draw's own SVG filter, and ODG to PDF does the same in a page format.

Why is my converted WMV silent?

Because an ODG is a still drawing with nothing to encode. The converter renders each page, holds it for the Image Duration, and writes a video with no sound — for an image source no audio codec is written at all, and the Audio Codec group does not render on this page. To add music or narration, convert first, then bring the .wmv into an editor such as Shotcut, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut.

My ODG has several pages — what ends up in the WMV?

Each page becomes its own held frame inside the same clip, in page order, shown for the Image Duration you chose. Nothing is silently dropped and nothing errors out. If you would rather have one file per page, save the pages as separate .odg files in LibreOffice Draw, upload them together and set Merge strategy to "Video per image".

Does the Quality Preset actually do anything on WMV?

Less than you might expect. WMV1 and WMV2 are not CRF codecs: they take ffmpeg's 1–31 quality scale, where lower is better, so the Constant Quality control is the one that bites and the Quality Preset has a much smaller effect than it does on H.264. The other real lever is frame size — for a still drawing, a larger Video resolution changes the output far more than any quality slider.

Will converting to WMV make the drawing look better or HD?

No, and that is a limit of the operation rather than a fault in the tool. The page is rendered once, and wrapping that frame in a WMV cannot add detail — the WMV2 encode is lossy and may soften it slightly. Choosing a bigger resolution stretches the frame onto a larger canvas without inventing pixels. For maximum fidelity, keep the drawing as an image via ODG to PNG or as vectors via ODG to SVG.

Which codec and container does the output use?

WMV2 — the codec of Windows Media Video 8 — inside an Advanced Systems Format container, which is what a .wmv file is. The Video Codec group also offers WMV1 (Windows Media Video 7) for genuinely old targets. Neither is WMV 9, the version Microsoft submitted to SMPTE and which was standardised in March 2006 as SMPTE 421M, better known as VC-1.

What is the Background Color for, and when does it show?

It fills whatever the drawing does not cover. A Draw page is often a different aspect ratio from a standard 16:9 video frame, so once rendered the page is fitted into the frame and the surrounding area is painted with the Background Color — White by default here, or any of the other 24 named colours. If the page exactly matches the resolution you chose, no fill is visible.

Should I convert to WMV or to MP4?

MP4, for almost everyone. WMV plays well on Windows but has thin native support on macOS, iOS, Android and in browsers, where VLC is usually needed. H.264 in MP4 plays natively almost everywhere, which makes it the safe default when a tool wants video and you have a drawing. Choose WMV only when a specific Windows Media workflow demands that container — otherwise ODG to MP4 is the universal route.