CompuServe Thread

Dear Brian, I have been working to solve a development program for quite some time now and have come very close to a solution. I am attempting to convert AVI files to FLC file format. There is a company called In:Sync that has a Windows application that allows you to edit AVI and FLC files and to convert between the two formats. It seems though that when an AVI file is converted to FLC file format that the animation contains redundent color information. For example a 100 frame AVI file that is converted to a FLC file is approximately 24MB in size. The FLC file's color pallete fills all 256 colors, though, each frame of the FLC only utilizes 16 colors (THE SAME COLORS UTILIZED THOUGHOUT ALL 100 FRAMES). Reducing the number of colors the the 16 that are used reduces the FLC's file size dramatically to about 50 KB in size. I tried something else, I exported the 24MB FLC file to a series of GIF files using Animators POCO PIC program. Then I used the POCO program to load those GIF's back into a new FLC. Interestingly enough, the new FLC had a similar file size as the 50KB file whose colors had been reduced, but the new FLC's pallete retained all of the colors that were in the original FLC. Is there a way to convert my original large file without having to go through this routine. Thanks for your help, Erland Blume