I am considering a project to pitch to a client can any body comment on
the points below:
DVD hybrid (video and data)
Director dvd menus
Data V12 database of pdf documents and various director movies.
Xtras v12 and pdf
Is this possible, what are the approx costs involved for production and
does anybody in the UK interested in helping on the project.
Thanks
Tim Hilton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Chad Mefferd (Morris Publishing)
Sent: 27 August 2001 16:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> PNGs with transparency & user's color depth
settings
on 8/24/01 12:53 PM, Gene Fritzinger at
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wrote:
> <SNIP>
> I'm not sure it will be possible to display your images at 256 colors
> with out some degradation as they require a 256 color pallette and
> 8-bit images created within the range of that pallette to interpret
> the color. if you intend to display at 256 colors all of your images
> will need to be converted to 8-bit and you will need to create or
> assign an appropriate pallette. even so passing 8-bit images over each
> other will probably push some of colors out of the range of your
> pallette (hence the awful colors). do you really need to be able to
> display at 256 colors? <SNIP>
>
> Thanks Chad,
>
> I wish I didn't even need to worry about displaying at 256 colors, it
> would make my job a whole lot easier and I'd feel a lot better knowing
> my images are being displayed accurately. I'd like to think that most
> of the users using my training CD would be displaying at least 16-bit
> color, but I've seen even at our location, a number of programmers who
> are quite happy to keep their displays at 256. I realize that I could
> try to change the end users display settings, but I heard some horror
> stories that make me very reluctant to try. Does anyone know of any
> user statistics websites that don't charge for information? How
> common is 16 bit or higher color settings?
>
> Thanks again,
> g fritzinger
>
>
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Sorry I can't direct you to any hard data, however�
I think you would be okay requiring the projector to display at
thousands of colors as long as you aren't making your stage any larger
than 640X480. PC's from the Pentium I and on that I am aware of can
display this at the very least. Our PC programmer assured me before
beginning my last project, which will be distributed solely to PC users,
would me more than safe at 16-bit color.
At any rate using colorDepth you can check and set the monitor to the
desired color depth OR create a 256 color version of your movie that
would be played instead of your 16-bit movie. If the monitor is set for
16 or 32-bit color your 16-bit version would play. Although this is more
work on your part.
You could even use colorDepth to reset the monitor back to it's initial
setting when exiting your projector, so the transition between modes
should be seemless to the end user. I will conceed however that PC's,
being what they are, are open to an unknown variable for potential
trouble when making such adjustments.
For what it's worth�
chad mefferd
designer
morris publishing
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