LnbolchPhotoelusplanet.net said to Photo at 02-04-03  13:27
 Subject: Re: Slideshow!

 >  Ln> These end up as AVIs and are much larger than FotoAngelo slide shows.
 >  Ln> Of course with CD-ROMs, this is of little consequence.
 >
 >  Check out the http://www.vcdhelp.com/ site, you can find a lot of
 >  freebie ways to convert avi's to mpeg's.   TMPGEnc comes to mind.
 >  A 2 gig avi becomes about 60 meg of mpeg.  That is unless your
 >  using DIV-X codec, where for some unknown reason they generate
 >  their files with an avi extention when the file is compressed to
 >  their own version of mpeg-4.

 Ln> And of course, there is WMV format, which I have found does a super
 Ln> job of compressing. It requiress Micro$oft's media player for the most
 Ln> part, but most people have it anyway. I have found that at the higher
 Ln> data rates the artifacting is minimal, but the compression is awesome.

 Have to give em credit there. It is the best of the viewers and gives
 the broadest range of outputs.  It's available for the Mac now too,
 but not Linux or other nix's.  I hate using the Apple QuickTime viewer
 with it's nasty, "do you want to give us your credit card number now
 or should we bug you next time" question.  Best part of the Winmedia
 player 9 is it will say this is an unsupported format when you tell it
 to be the default viewer for a .mov file, but after that will go ahead
 and open and run them with no problems for me on win98se.

 The same movie, a short at 1,314,224kb as an avi file is 418,057kb as a
 quicktime mov clip,  Shrinking it in quality a lot makes for a 127,457kb
 quicktime mov file.  As an mpeg1 it becomes a 58.838KB file with much
 better quality.  With a slight reduction in size and frame rate for the
 web, it is a 10,865kb wmv file.

 Ln> I do the conversion in SoundForge.

 I use the SoundForge Studio version mostly for eliminating clicks
 and noises. A really good program in my opinion.  I seldom stop at
 audio editing there though.  My sounds usually pass through several
 other editing and mixing stages before the finished product appears
 as a background sound track.

 You can download a free encoder here.  Gives you a few more option
 choices than the built-in's do.

 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp


 Bob Fer



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