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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