In article <391f6101$1@news.povray.org>, "Jetlag" 
<bga### [at] microsoftcom> wrote:

>How many people would find it useful for POV-Ray to save directly to an
>MPEG-1 file?
>
>I'm just fact-finding for those wondering.

The Macintosh versions of POV can save directly to Quicktime. It sounds 
like it would be a useful feature, but in practice I never use it, even 
though about half of what I do ends up becoming a Quicktime movie. I 
think the only time I've used it seriously was in writing a tutorial 
that included how to use it :*)

The reason it isn't quite as useful as it sounds, is that rendering your 
frames usually takes longer than collating your movie. I don't want to 
have to render my frames again just because I chose poor settings for 
the movie-making process. So I still always render the frames to PNG and 
then use separate software to convert the frames into a movie. That way 
I can try all sorts of different compression settings and other options 
to get what I need.

Jerry

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