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- From: dlileiki@AFIT.AF.MIL
- Subject: Review: StarWars VideoClips
- Message-ID: <dlileiki.27.728057580@AFIT.AF.MIL>
- Keywords: Quicktime
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- Organization: Air Force Institue of Technology, WPAFB OH
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:13:00 GMT
-
- I just bought 'StarWars VideoClips' and thought I'd give the net my
- impressions.
-
- This is an application that does essentially what Soundmaster does;
- but instead of playing sounds, it plays Quicktime Movies of various scenes
- from the original StarWars movie. It comes with over 15Mb of movies which
- turns out to be about 25-30 movie clips which vary in size from 50k to 1Mb.
- It requires 4Mb RAM if running Sys7. It ships with Quicktime extension 1.5.
- It says that it will also play any movie that was made Quicktime compatible.
- It cost me just under $50.
-
- Well, it works great. It's features allow you to specify one or more
- clips per finder event or system beep. If you designate more than one
- movie for a given event (i.e. empty trash), then you can choose to play one
- at random or play the next in sequence. You can choose to have the movie
- popup in the center or any corner of the screen, or you can have it popup
- at random over the entire screen.
-
- The picture quality is quite good, although I'm not very familiar
- with Quicktime movies (this is my first experience). I don't notice any
- slowing down of my machine, however I'm running a IIsi with A Daystar 40MHz
- Powercache with FPU and 9 MB RAM. It may run slower on an unenhanced
- machine.
-
- Well, I'm pleased and have dumped my 3+ Mb of sounds in lieu of 6Mb
- of movies. At least these are not loaded into memory, so valuable RAM is
- not wasted.
-