In article <web.40de007a60236aa43e7b70250@news.povray.org> , "tpwaterh" 
<tpw### [at] alumniuwaterlooca> wrote:

> I thought of that too, but QT Player 6.5.1 doesn't have an Export command.

Ah, forgot, you need QuickTime Pro for that.  It is a good idea to have
(unless you have some other movie editor - iMovie is for editing digitized
video) if you want to publish video on the web to have a tool to compress
movies for optimal playback online.  POV-Ray can only store one frame after
the other, and it has to close and reopen the movie after every frame in
order to allow recovery in case you abort a render.  As such, movies created
by POV-Ray will never be efficiently compressed anyway - that is also why
you should select a lossless (i.e. PNG) or not very lossy compressor (Motion
JPEG with low compression) when selecting QuickTime movie output in POV-Ray.
You can then feed that movie to a program to do a final and very effective
compression using a compression method much more suitable for web use (in
particular MPEG-4 or Sorensen).

If you have Classic, you could try to use the older MooVer to do this.  It
will allow you to compose single frames POV-Ray will render if you select
any other output file format; and MooVer will turn them into a movie:
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4977/espsw/moover.html>

    Thorsten

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