video tribulations & congratulations

[Trevor DeVore]

On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 02:09  AM, DVGlasgow at aol.com wrote:
> I am *still* struggling to get my video tutorial stack to work (which 
> is
> designed to train users in the use of Affinity 2.0, my new assessment 
> tool).
> Incidentally, this was a rewrite of VB software, and is much improved 
> by
> being in RR)
>
> I captured QT movies of the various screens, with me droning on about 
> this
> and that.  Then my dear partner discovered the major crash that ocurrs 
> if the
> movie is fast forwarded to the end reported in use-revolution digest, 
> Vol 1
> #1340- I don't think anyone had any ideas about that did they?

I didn't see your original post and don't know where to find it based 
on the number - do you have a url or thread title?  There should be an 
easy fix to whatever was causing the problem so you won't have to use 
avi.

> In the absence of any solution to the problem, I decided to convert 
> the QT
> movies to AVI and bypass QT on both platforms using playvideoclip 
> rather than
> a player object.  To my horror, the AVIs were enormous.  For example, a
> perfectly viewable QT movie of 11.5 megs, balloons to 715.9 after 
> exporting
> from QT.  Is this right?????

Depending on the codec you used when you exported to this can be 
expected.  If you were to export your screen capture to a QT movie 
using DV NTSC the file would be much larger as well.  I am not very 
familiar with the avi files though so I don't know how you could 
improve file size.

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com