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QTW supports a wide variety of codecs, as does AVI. Indeo is good (certainly better than Microsoft Video 1!). But there are two things QTW has that AVI lacks regardless of which codecs you use: ability to precisely synchronize audio with video, and ability to run on a Macintosh. When producing animations for CDs, both are important, especially if you want to make one CD that will run on both Mac and Windows. Oh, and QT 2.0 also supports palettes for 8-bit. But if you're going to do 8-bit animations, Smacker beats the socks off both AVI AND QT!