Priscilla--
I hope I'm not insulting your intelligence, but QuickTime, by itself, doesn't
do anything. It's merely an environment, if you will, whereby programs (such
as Debabelizer -- proof of the existance of God, as far as I'm concerned -- or
Media Cleaner Pro or Adobe Premiere) can create time-based pictures. Thus the
name QuickTime.
The long and the short of it is that you need to get a copy of QuickTime 2.1.2
(from apple.com, probably), and install it on your computer. Then, you can use
Debabelizer or Media Cleaner Pro or Adobe Premiere to output your movies as
QuickTime 2.1.2 .MOVs with a good codec such as Cinepak. Your target (486s and
2X CDROMs with Win3.1) dictate that they probably won't handle Sorensen or
Indeo 4.1. But Cinepak has been proven time and time and time and time again
on that platform.
Your distributions might need to include an installer for QuickTime 2.1.2 -- I
don't know about the licensing issues with this version, you might have to ask
Apple, or mebbe some noble person on this list has that info.
If I were making the decisions, I wouldn't use Debabelizer for compressing
your movies. Spend a couple of bucks and get Media Cleaner Pro. I love
Debabelizer to distraction, but I use it solely for still image conversions,
or on occasion to convert a series of TGA files from some unwholesome PC 3D
rendering program to a QuickTime file using the Animation codec. It's strength
is still images. Media Cleaner Pro's strength is QuickTime. Grand program...
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