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Up until today I was under the impression that the DivX codec was the best to create high-quality small size files. Yet when I redid the animations for the MAC users and used the QUICKTIME format (.mov) with the Sorenson Video 3 codec I could not (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Video Compressions (and a little Apple propaganda)
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Yeah, I have heard that Sorenson is the greatest thing in the world. Apple uses a pro version to compress the movie trailers on their site: (2 URLs) for info on Sorenson. If you don't know already, Apple is really big into video. <Apple propaganda> (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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Are you sure you don't work for the apple? I know that a PC will NEVER EVER beat a MAC in video/animation proformance but that's not enough to push me over the edge into appleland.... =) Thanks for the input on the Sorenson codec. Do you know of a (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hmm.. james@apple.com. Nice.. Not anytime soon. I do my good share of evangelism though. In education (where I am at) Mac does really well, but I guess that means we are under the gun more than other areas. Remember Bill Gates' settlement (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I've beem trying to push this idea pass my other half (my wife) but alas have been unsucessful. =) She calims we can't afford and rerally don't need another machine in the house. Plus she has a serect weapon. New machine = NO LEGO PURCHASE (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LOL! (...) On my Mac, I can view .mov, .mpeg or .mpg (most of the time), .raw (RealPlayer?--most of the time), .asf (Windows Media player--most of the time), and I was able to install the divx system extension and view your .avi's. The quality (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad)
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Which flavor was that Kool-aid? I did not find any deep information on Apple's website. The material I found, a comparison of different codecs, only stated the obvious: Sorensen 3 is good like MPEG but demanding, use DV for DV, Cinepak is good on (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.animation)
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