Working with lots of large Forms

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed Mar 20 18:31:41 UTC 2002


Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> Yisrael Lowenstein <gte356h at prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > > I think you should look at the jpeg movie format that is in the latest
> > > Squeak versions. It will do most of this dirty work for you and you
> > > can consentrate on image manipulation.
> >
> > I will probably be exporting the final images in jpegMOvie format...but
> > when working in DVFX type applications, the rule is to keep all of the
> > data until the last step...jaggies from ANY compression will be VERY
> > obvious...and you will be doing things to each frame multiple times...the
> > compression artifacts will build up if you need to save and reload each
> > time....that's why I have to use either BMPs or some sort of form saving
> > technique.
> 
> You might try using JPEG movies at 100% quality.  This should be
> lossless.  On the other hand, it might not work, but it seems like it's
> worth a try.

There is also the old Squeak movie format. It has no compression and
should work 
out of the box

Karl



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