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In article <BuF73L.FMq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, chenp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (pai-lin chen) writes:
> Dear netters,
> 	I have a project which requires heavy use of still video in MicroMind
> Director.  To save the memory space that the color images may take, I took
> the folowing steps:
> 	First, I reduced the image size, resolution, so that each image will
> take about 450 K. Then I used QuickTime utility to compress the image, so that
> the size of each image is about 45K.  So far so good.  However, when I imported
> the image into MicroMind Dir. 3.1, the size of image turned back to 450K.
> 	It seemed that Director 3.1 decompressed the image; however, this is
> somewhat strange.  If MMD is QuickTime ready, it should be able to read the 
> file in JPEG format with original size.  Could someone out there give me a
> clue?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Pai-lin Chen
> chenp@ucs.indiana.edu

What's happening here is this: You do an "Import" command on the tiny
jpeg file, Director reads it in as a PICT file (it gets automatically
decompressed by QuickTime) and Director stores the bitmap in it's own
format (the 450k size). One way around this is to use the "Link To File"
command, which will cause Director to read the picture in on demand. The
big drawback to using "Link to" is that it builds in hard pathnames and
so when you install your software on someone else's machine it tends not
to work right. In general, I've been fairly disappointed wiuth
Director's support of QuickTime, and the still compression in
particular, and for our project I'm writing a series of XObjects that
overcome Director 3.1's poor implementation of QuickTime.

Scott

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Scott Kelley, sakelley@ucsd.edu, (619) 534-8560
Multimedia Interactive Learning Laboratory (MILL)
Department of Biology, UC San Diego
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