CompuServe Messages

I would load the 640×480 flic, turn on Time, and CEL/CLIP. I would then enter the CEL/CEL ANIMATION and save the CEL animation. At this point, you would have your 400×300 (or so) CEL. To make this a flic at this resolution, you have to FLIC/FILES/Load and change the wildcard selector to *.CEL. Load the animation, then save it as a Flic. You now have a 400×300 FLC. There are a couple of ways to reduce the Flic to 320×200. If you use Optics to scale it down, you don't get as good looking a reduction as you would using ANICONV. I would use ANICONV in this way: Load ANICONV. Select 320×200 Screen Size and load the 400×300 FLC. In the first pulldown menu, select SCALE and select the Default 320×200. You can either save it as an FLI or an FLC at this point. It takes a while to convert everything, but this is where it does a better job than OPTICS at scaling. You might not like the fact that the 320×200 image does not maintain the same aspect ratio as the original. You might have to play around with Maintain Aspect ratio, or adjust the Width and Height, and deal with the fact that either part of the resulting Flic will have a blank area, or that you lose part of the sides.