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#Frame Differencing FLCs

    20-Jun-95 09:03:34
Sb: #Frame Differencing FLCs
Fm: Paul Hempstock 100043,551
To: all
At present we produce all our animation work on Macs. We are able to produce a kind of full screen (640×480) animation for display on the computer by creative use of the "Frame Differenced" PICS file format. For the uninitiated or dedicated PC user this format is basically equivalent to FLC. We would like to be able to play our movies on the PC. There is a Mac product called DeBabelizer which purports to convert from PICS to FLC but which actually removes the frame differencing, creating enormous FLC files which play very badly on all but the fastest machines. My questions are: Is there a utility which creates frame differenced FLC files from a sequence of individual full frames? Alternatively, can I do this using Animator Pro or Animator Studio? Is Animator Studio likely to be on show at the Multimedia 95 show in London this week? TIA Paul.