For those who use Macs, any app. that is QuickTime saavy can produce MPEG-4 video (assuming the presence of QT6). It is a beautiful thinkg to behold at a NTSC size (a.k.a. full screen), using a 1/4 frame and the automatic image smoothing of the codec. I use FCP 3 for that. For MPEG-1 stuff, I prefer Cleaner working on a high-quality DV-codec video file.

Ron Woodland


Ross Clutterbuck wrote:

I would strongly recommend the DirectMedia Xtra for playing MPEGs in
Director. I use it religiously at work (yes, I am finally employed!!) and
it's great - a Cue point editor as part of the Xtra interface is just sweet.
You'd still use all the same digital video Lingo to control your MPEGs
however.

As to the encoding of the MPEG itself, there are lots of ways of doing it. I
personally use either the MPEG export in Adobe Premiere 6.5 or TMPGEnc
(http://www.tmpgenc.net/) but then again I haven't had a need for anything
other than 1/4 PAL (352x288 25fps) on my CD-ROM stuff.

Recommend a Google search to get some MPEG-ing tips.

Ross



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