From: William Waizenegger To: 3dsmax <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Subject: Re: How to get it reeeeelly small? Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:13 PM Hello everyone: Again, thanks to all who have come to my aid about compressing my 1.5 gig animation (QuickTime) to something more web-friendly. I'm still having problems, though. It seems that, in order to have as many people see my animation as possible, mpeg is the way to go. However, I spent all day yesterday downloading an incredible number of different shareware/freeware encoders and none really seem up to the task. Either they don't bring the file down enough (down to over 100 meg) or they leave an ugly watermark in the lower right-hand corner unless I put up over US$ 200 or something. Some were command line based, but, because of my ignorance at using such things, didn't work out for me (did I mention that I'm using a Windows NT 4 machine?). And some left my animation, not only still prohibitively large, they also left it too lossy. So far, the best I've been able to do is a combination of using Sorensen QuickTime at a resolution smaller than 320x240 at a "poor" compression setting--giving me 34,155 bytes--and then compressing it farther using RAR compression--giving me 19,711 bytes. This is still too large for web distribution. I really want to have my little 3-minute animation critiqued by the list but I just don't get how so many people can get their animation so small (at 320x240) for downloading. Any other ideas? Willi Waizenegger waizen@earthlink.net -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net