At 9:21 AM -0500 7/3/02, Howdy-Tzi wrote:
>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.
>

Making a .cct also compresses sounds heavily.  On my current project, 
we have a castlib full of sounds.  The .cst file is 85 Mb, the 
resulting .cct is about 7.5.

Irv

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