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>From: "Charlie Fiskeaux II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Lingo List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: <lingo-l> QuickTime problem
>Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2001, 5:44 PM
>I'm having problems with some QuickTime movies looking pixelated. Depending
>on how I compress them, sometimes they look pixelated (like QT movies look
>when they are resized smaller than they should be) on all computers here in
>the office, and sometimes only on mine (they look fine on other PCs and on
>Macs). In Director, if I turn off Direct to Stage to let Director play
>them, they look fine, but if I turn it back on they are pixelated again. I
>am compressing them the same way that I compress other movies I have done
>which have always looked fine!
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QT movies running NOT directToStage will look pixelated, especially if
they are compressed with codecs that have smoothing, like Sorenson. With
Cinepak, which itself looks pixelated, the difference is not so obvious.
If you take a QT movie and open it in QT Player Pro, then set the
Graphics Mode to something other than "copy", you'll see the same thing
happen.
This is because Graphics Mode settings in QuickTime, and running NOT
directToStage in Director, both change the way the video is rasterized,
making blocks of pixels available for changes like the various Graphics
Modes in QT (transparent, straight alpha, etc) and the "inks" in
Director.
For straight, untouched rasterization, and smoothing in Sorenson Dev
codec, you need to run directToStage.
Steve Bennett
www.ifmp.net
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