I'm working on an IRTC animation for which I believe about 120 words of
narrative introduction are necessary.  I don't want to put it in the TXT
file I submit, as I would lose some dramatic impact and I know voters
have complained when the entry's theme isn't self-explanatory.

Right now, I've made my text into a bitmap which scrolls up the screen,
and I film it as it travels in the +Y direction.  The problem is that
this part of the animation came out to be nearly 2MB, and it's still
difficult to read as it zips by over 11 seconds.  It's a two-color
bitmap, and I expected much better compression efficiency from the MPG
format.

The text fits legibly onto two 320 x 240 stationary screens. I tried
another MPG which was about 80 frames or more of each screen, but this
was 5 MB!

Any suggestions, technically or IRTC-PC-ally?

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