.mov problems
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I tried to make a .MOV file in Animator Studio
and play it in the Media Player without any success
I use the MCI Quick Time driver for Windows.
I would appreciate help.
Daniel
If you didn't change the compressor, you saved as Autodesk RLE,
which the MCI Quicktime driver wouldn't understand. It doesn't use the
codecs (COmpressor/DECompressor) available through Video for Windows, but uses
the QuickTime for Windows codecs in \windows\system\qt*.qtc.
Try changing the compression to Indeo or Cinepack, which exist on
Windows and Mac (but unfortunately are both lossy).
Thanks, Mr. Taber. I had the same problem (.FLC to .MOV). I tried the
compression to Cinepack, and it worked for me. Really appreciate it.
Somehow, Indeo does work for me (I tried both options).
One more question for you. When I convert .flc to .mov, I lost a great deal of
quality. Colors don't look as nice as before. Is there any setting I need to
change to improve the quality (I even set the compression quality to 100%
without knowing what it is supposed to do). Or it is just what I can get out of
conversion to .mov format using this package?
Thanks in advance.
Mike LIU
Indeo and Cinepak are both lossy even at their highest settings (100%).
There ARE lossless formats on either platform:
Mac- animation (rle), graphics (smc), raw,
PC- Autodesk RLE (aasc 8 or 24 bit), Microsoft RLE (mrle 8 bit),
uncompressed-full-frames (dib 8 or 24).
but none yet in common.
Perhaps soon someone will port a codec to the other platform.
If you're just trying to get the exact images over to the Mac, you
might consider saving as a TIFF or TGA sequence.
A good book on the subject:
How To Digitize Video,
Nels Johnson,
The San Francisco Canyon Company