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    Scott,
        Your idea of placing JPEGed images into Director as QTime
    movies is an interesting idea (I've never tried it), but
    there's an easier way. Use the "paste as PICT" command in
    the Cast menu.  If you have a JPEG image in the clipboard
    choosing "paste as pict" will retain any QuickTime
    compression associated with that picture.  It will also keep
    the small file size when the MacroMind (excuse me, "MacroMedia")
    file is saved.
        On the other hand, if you really wanted to do it your way,
    then why not dither the image in a paint program (Photoshop)
    before you make you movie file of JPEG images.
        The easiest way to keep track of files is to use the
    "link to file" option when importing, but to keep a bunch of
    aliases to the files you need inside the same folder as your
    Director Document.  This should make your link alittle more
    robust.  Director should really use alias  records instead of
    keeping the absolute path name.  Oh, well, can't have everything.
        If you will be porting your Director Movie to another
    platform, one which doesn't have aliases (Windows), then you
    could keep all of the files needed for your movie in the same
    folder as the Director file itself and reference them via
    Lingo by using "the pathname & picturetitle" to create your
    own pathname.

    Hope this helps.

                            Robert Falco
                            Training and Multimedia Systems
                            Penn State University
                            RXF10 @ psuvm.psu.edu