>I'm one of those poor suckers still delivering off 2xCD-roms onto low-end
>(486&up) pc's running Windows 3.1. I suppose I should be greatful that
>I'm not delivering pizzas- but that, at least, would be more
>straightforward.
:^)
>I've been asked to compress a large avi file, and to convert some qt files
>to avi's.
My advice:
-- Go with QuickTime 2.1.2. It's been proven on tens of thousands of
titles, and tools to make QuickTime movies (i.e. Media Cleaner Pro) are
better.
-- Be careful with "QuickTime-to-AVI" converters. Many of them have issues
(often due to AVI limitations...Microsoft didn't abandon it for nothing),
so if you do this, test the results on all the machines you can get ahold
of.
>I'd be interested in indeo 4.1 if it was cheap...
If you're serious about 486s and Windows 3.1, Indeo 4.1 CPU requirements
are probably out of your league. Stick with 3.2, or go with Cinepak.
>I need to run the images through windows debabelizer (which cannot see qt
>files...
Debabelizer for Windows supports QuickTime 3, so this should work.
>My other question: can I use Premiere 5 on a mac to make an avi file?
I don't believe you can.
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