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You can export a movie as a QuickTime movie on the Windows platform.
QuickTime supports several compression schemes. The following descriptions should help you choose one; however, you’ll probably want to experiment with different compressors and settings to identify the best settings for your work. You may also have additional compression methods available.
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The Animation method works well with areas of continuous tone. If you set the Quality in the Compression Settings dialog box to Best and make every frame a key frame, this compressor is lossless. For most Corel Painter animations, this compressor is a good choice. |
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The Cinepak method produces acceptable motion and image quality at remarkably small file sizes. It is the preferred format for CD delivery and transfer across the Internet. Cinepak can take a long time to compress, and it can be difficult to find the best compression settings for certain image types and frame rates. |
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The Graphics method is limited to 256 colors. It compresses the file at a greater ratio than the Animation compressor, but does not play as quickly. |
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The None option uses no compression, so the images retain all of their quality. With a large frame size, some computers might not be fast enough to play at a high frame rate. |
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The Photo-JPEG method allows high compression ratios while maintaining excellent image quality. However, it does not play at high rates. JPEG is an international standard for image compression. |
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The Video method is designed for recording and playing back digitized video at high rates. Because of the spatial compression method it uses, the Video compressor does not provide optimal results for images with large areas of continuous tone, such as those in most animations. |
The compression ratio is inversely proportional to image quality. The Quality slider allows you to set an optimum level between the amount of compression and image quality. For most work in Corel Painter, it is best to set the Quality slider to High.
You can specify the number of frames you want displayed per second and, with some compression methods, the frequency of key frames. Key frames are used in temporal compression methods. Each key frame is stored in its entirety. The next set of frames, up to the next key, are saved only as changes.
With some compression methods, you can also limit the speed of data transmission with the Limit Data Rate option. The data rate limit overrides the Quality setting, if necessary, to keep the compressed movie within the set limit.
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In the Save Movie dialog box, enable the Save Movie As QuickTime option. |
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In the Enter Movie Name dialog box, choose a location, enter a name for the file, and click Save. |
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In the Compression Settings dialog box, choose a compression method from the list box. |
Save As.