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Jim Ventola (jiventol@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:

: How do MainActor and Magic Lantern stack up?  I have early
: versions of both, and MainActor seems to do more.  (You can't
: even view a frame from within ML, it seems.  So what is
: version 2.0 like?  I am impressed with both.

I have and use Main Actor Pro and Magic Lantern (think it is 2.0).
Each has its strengths but I tend to use MA for about 90% of my anims 
intended for my Picasso board.

Main Actor does have many more features and IMHO is somewhat faster and 
easier to use.  So far, I've not been able to play Picasso anims using
Main Actors player.  Have to load the anim back into MA and then play it.  

Magic Lantern has more options to allow you to balance between anim file
size (24 bit anims can be incredibly huge) and playback speed.  The anim 
players with Magic Lantern are freely distributable and work (on my 
Picasso-II anyway).

Picasso anims created in Main Actor seem to be smaller than anims created
in Magic Lantern (using the automatic selection between speed and file 
compression).  But then, whats two or three megabytes on a 25MB anim ;)

Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com