Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
> 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?

The only thing I have to offer is that you may find that if you turn it into a
full-colour-image with anti-aliased text the compression will be much better.
What you are trying to do will probably work better with AVI.

Remco

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