Re: CD ROM Capacity?

Stephen Sorentos (sorentos1@earthlink.net)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:55:37 -0800

>io!
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>>I'm a pretty experienced video producer/editor, and I've just gotten a gig
>>to produce an archival CD ROM. The client has about 6 hours of VHS video
>>he'd like digitized to CD, with accompanying text and simple graphics. I'm
>>thinking 160x120 AVI video, 16 bit 22K sound, running in a window on the
>>right. Text and graphics to the left, all set up in Director. My question:
>>how much of this kind of program will fit on a CD? I have no idea how big
>>my AVI files will be. If you can recommend a good source book (or web site)
>>for this kind of tech info, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks -
>

Apparently Heuris has a new MPEG-1 software codec (included with Media
Cleaner Pro 3.1 and 99.00 direct from Heuris) I participated in some
discussions on other lists and the upshot was that this was the way to go
to get the most data at the best quality with the lowest data rate onto a
CD. Check it out. If you use it please post your results.

Stephen Sorentos
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