I think you might have to go to 1/3 of 1500 frames if you mean to upload
at p.b.a. just to hazard a guess. Have you compared 256 grays to 24 bit
color? I haven't but something makes me think the compression won't be as
thrifty.


GrimDude wrote:
> 
> I finally finished the models for this animation. Forgive my lack of
> realistic motion on people, when you finally see this thing.
>   The models take up 17megs of memory, the scenes takes 22 minutes to parse,
> and should render at 30min/frame. I haven't got the explosions completely
> worked out, yet, so that could be a little off for late animation frames.
>   Now for the question. What's the longest animation in mpeg format that is
> still uploadable (how many frames)? I'm using 320x240x256 shades of gray.
>   This thing could *easily* exceed 1500 frames if I want it at realistic
> speeds. 30mins. x 1500 frames = Oh, My God! :)
>   Maybe I can trim it down by a third, or so.
> 
> --
> GrimDude
> vos### [at] arkansasnet

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