CompuServe Messages

I left the block limit set very high while messing around to see what effect it had, if any, on image quality. I hadn't noticed any difference so I left it. I was working on deadline for a local TV spot. We had to call DPS to find out why our animations were not playing. They would start off fine but when the images began to get complicated, ie. dramatic light changes, complicated effects, lots of motion etc.. the animation images turned to many colored squares and other corrupted looking junk. When we manualy scrolled through the ani the individual images seemed fine. Upon closer inspection the individual fields were corrupted looking to verying degrees. DPS asked me to check my block limit setting and sighed. I checked, told him, he said set them somewhere around 220 – 240 for the micropolis 2217. I do not recall the exact explanation but it went something like this – the drive will record all the information that the limit setting will allow. BUT it cannot manage that much information fast enough when playing the animation back, at least on my Gateway 486-66. I recopied the tga's to the PAR with the BLS set to 240 and have had no problems since thank you. ComWorks Communications, Inc.