At 14:43 -0400 07/02/2002, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:

>I've been wondering for some time now, what's the difference (practically)
>between protected movies and casts (.dxr, .cxt) and shockwaved movies and
>casts (.dcr, .cst)?

In addition to what Kenneth send I'd add that shocked casts are 
compressed, sometimes quite heavily, and that can make a difference 
in size when you're dealing with a lot of images.

The tradeoff is that if you compress your images too much they end up 
looking pretty bad.

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