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flc file pal in windows

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#121565From: Paul BrinckmannSep 1, 1994 1:41 PM
I am having fun with palettes in windows with flics and gifs. I am running in 256 color mode in windows and a bunch of gifs and some flics. I need to get all of them in the same color palette and run under windows with the mci commands. It seems that I always get a color flicker going from gif to flic and back again. even though the gifs and flics say they have the same palette in ani pro. If I load the flic in Video for windows and look at the palette, its different than the gif. How can that be. Hope there is someone with knowledge out there.
#121739From: Brian Rudolph [Adesk]Sep 2, 1994 11:46 AM
Michael, Windows reserves the first ten and last ten palette positions of the 256 color palette for its own use. To minimize palette problems, convert your animations to 236 colors, leaving the first and last ten positions unused. -Brian