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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!rxf10
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:49:32 EST
- From: <RXF10@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92315.104933RXF10@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: QuickTime and Fast Dithering
- References: <40577@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- Scott,
- Your idea of placing JPEGed images into Director as QTime
- movies is an interesting idea (I've never tried it), but
- there's an easier way. Use the "paste as PICT" command in
- the Cast menu. If you have a JPEG image in the clipboard
- choosing "paste as pict" will retain any QuickTime
- compression associated with that picture. It will also keep
- the small file size when the MacroMind (excuse me, "MacroMedia")
- file is saved.
- On the other hand, if you really wanted to do it your way,
- then why not dither the image in a paint program (Photoshop)
- before you make you movie file of JPEG images.
- The easiest way to keep track of files is to use the
- "link to file" option when importing, but to keep a bunch of
- aliases to the files you need inside the same folder as your
- Director Document. This should make your link alittle more
- robust. Director should really use alias records instead of
- keeping the absolute path name. Oh, well, can't have everything.
- If you will be porting your Director Movie to another
- platform, one which doesn't have aliases (Windows), then you
- could keep all of the files needed for your movie in the same
- folder as the Director file itself and reference them via
- Lingo by using "the pathname & picturetitle" to create your
- own pathname.
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- Hope this helps.
-
- Robert Falco
- Training and Multimedia Systems
- Penn State University
- RXF10 @ psuvm.psu.edu
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