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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Quicktime natural bit depth
- Message-ID: <D2150035.lkm6ne@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 01:07:35 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <168C19755.AVERNON1@ua1vm.ua.edu> (comp.sys.mac.system), AVERNON1@ua1vm.ua.edu (Andrew Vernon) writes:
- > Jeffery,
- > In article <1gqjp1INNni1@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
- > You ask:
- >
- > >What is the natural bit-depth that Quicktime movies use? If I use a different
- > >depth, will I see a serious performance hit?
- >
- > QuickTime is based on a 16 bit pixel. If you use another depth, Quicktime will
- > redither the movie to 16 bits. The only major slowdown is if you try to use
- > QuickTime on a 1-bit display (Then it will also look crummy ;-)
-
- Well, wrong on a few points.
-
- The "natural" bit depth of a QuickTime movie is dependent on a number
- of variables such as which compressor was used and what options were
- used with that compressor.
-
- The Video Compressor does use 16-bit as its "natural" bit depth, but
- the Graphics Compressor uses 8-bit. The Animation Compressor
- can use a wide variety of bit depths.
-
- Also, QuickTime 1.5 displaying a movie on a 1-bit device isn't
- really too bad - beyond the obvious limitations. They do a nice
- dither and it is really quite fast!
-
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