From: johnsh@rpi.edu (Hugh Johnson)
Subject: Re: QuickTime movie available
Article-I.D.: mustang.johnsh-060493161931
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In article <johnsh-040493161915@mustang.stu.rpi.edu>, I wrote:
> 
> I've used the recently-released Macintosh application MPEG to QuickTime to
> convert the excellent MPEG "canyon.mpg" into a QuickTime movie.  While
> anyone who would want this movie is perfectly able to convert it
> themselves, I thought I'd let the net know that I'd be glad to mail copies
> of mine out.  The movie conversion took close to SIX HOURS on my poor
> little IIcx; in other words, unless you've got a Quadra, you might not want
> to tie up your machine in converting this file.
> 
> The movie is a fast fly-through of a fractal-generated canyon landscape. 
> The movie is 58 seconds long, and uses the compact video compressor (i.e.,
> QuickTime v1.5).  The movie looks okay on 8-bit displays, and looks
> absolutely awesome on 16- and 24-bit displays.
> 
> I'd be happy to mail this movie to the first 20 or so people who ask for
> it.  The only caveat is you need to be able to receive a nine-megabyte mail
> message (the movie was stuff-it'ed down to seven megs, but binhex ruined
> that party).  If more then 20 people want this movie, then it's just more
> evidence that the net needs a dedicated QuickTime FTP archive site.  C'mon,
> someone's gotta have a spare 1.2GB drive out there...

Okay, I've received a whole lot of requests for the movie, so for
simplicity's sake I can't mail out any more than I've already received (as
of 16:30 EDT, Tuesday).  Maybe it'll pop up on a site sooner or later.

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