Re: making movies

[Jed Davis]

--On Friday, 14 January 2000 3:08 PM -0800 Doug Donalson 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I just sent Catherine an mpg file I made with Corel Draw/Capture.  Size
> 20K capture rate 4 frames/sec for 10 sec.  I made identical captures for
> .mov and .avi formats but both of those are 3Meg files.  (Catherine,
> arn't you glad I didn't send those as well?)  The only disadvantage I can
> immediatly see with mpg over the other two is that is runs through the
> playback at lightning speed.  The other two have embedded controls and
> play back at a more reasonable rate of speed.
I think the issue with the size is one of the type of compression and 
parameters given to the codec (compressor/decompressor) rather than the 
file format.  As for playing rate, I'm fairly certain that that is an issue 
with the player, although I might be wrong on that one.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Catherine Dibble <address@hidden>
> > But they aren't so friendly to share.  Avi requires at least
> > the RealVideo plug in to run, and compression requires
> > users to download and install TechSmiths little
> > compression utility.  It works great, but is nevertheless a
> > barrier.

I know QuickTime can read the AVI format (and MPEG as well) and is fairly 
common (again, correct me if I'm wrong).  If you wanted to use the 
QuickTime format it has a pretty good selection of codecs, from what I've 
seen.

Hope some of this helps.

--Jed

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