so i rendered what i call a showcase animation of my xwing this week
(movement is too robotic and it took all week because i had settings too
high.  won't make those mistakes again.) at 800 by 450 pixels.  it came
out to be 91MB.  obviously way too huge!  so i used a utility to chop
the framerate down a bit and it dropped to 7 MB; excellent!!  then i
made a smaller copy only 400 pixels wide which ended up being 3.5MB. 
all so far were avi files.  the custom in the animation ng is to post
mpgs, so i converted both of the smaller avis and got curious results
which are the reason for this post.  the larger file compressed to
1.17MB, but the smaller file only compressed to 1.16MB! the settings in
the utility were the same.  what could be the cause?  and what size
should i aim for in order to post in the animation ng?

ryan

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