monday, 1/7/96

today i experimented a little with movieplayer and moviestar and premiere.
made movies

dimocopo,249k,124k/sec, 2secs,15fps, 553x120 made in movieplayer from dimocopo f0001 logomotion animation.
dimocopo.movie, 32k, 16k/sec,2 secs, 5fps, 80x120 made in premiere with cinepak comp.-the movie is no good.
dimocopo2.movie, 33k, 17k/sec, 2secs, 5fps, 120x80, cinepak, premiere. - very blurred.
dimocopo3.movie, 33k, 17k/sec, 2 secs, 5fps, 120x80, cinepak, premiere - higher data flow set but didn't seem to make a difference.
dimocopo4.movie, 99k, 49k/sec, 2secs, 10fps, 200x80, cinepak, premiere - concrete is blurred seems to be too fast.
dimocopo5.movie,237k, 59k/sec, 4secs, 5fps, 240x180, cinepak, premiere - concrete hard to read still.
untitled2.movie, 116k, 29k/sec, 4secs, 5fps, 240x80, cinepak, premiere, - this seemed to be the best quality for least size.
dimocopo7.movie, 132k, 16k/sec, 8secs, 5fps, 120x80, cinepak, premiere, - this was blurry and pixelated.

from untitled2.movie i made dimocopo1.mov in movieplayer and dimocopo1b.mov in moviestar. i also made from untitled2.movie dimocopo2.mov, directly into moviemaker. none of them are very satisfactory. i noticed that moviestar has a compression selection similar to premiere so i tried making the original logomotion animation into various compressed versions.

dimocoms.mov, 91k, 41k/s, 5fps, 16 clour, cinepak - very good quality, like the original.
dimocoms2.mov, 54k, 24k/s, 5fps,4colour, animation - came out black and white.
dimocoms3.mov, 47k, 21k/sec, cinepak, least res - just as blurry as the previous batch, but lower in size.
dimocoms4.mov, 72k, 30k/sec, 5fps, video, least. - good quality.
dimocoms5.mov, 44k, 20k/s, 5fps, photo-jpeg - a little jerky.

this is the dimocopo animation compressed with video in moviestar maker.hit me!this is the dimocopo animation compressed with animation(16 colour) in moviestar maker.hit me some more!
i believe the video compression with moviestar is the best so far comparing favourably with the animated gif which is 91k, and close in quality to the original which was 250k, a considerable saving of loading time.
the quicktime internet maker could be useful in converting qt movies for use on the net, but to prove this i will have to try all the compression choices in premiere first. i quickly remade the dimocopo logomotion animation in premiere using video, least compression at 5fps and got a 44k file which i then processed through quicktime internet tool. it gave even better results than the moviestar clips.look, look!

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