Jim Tinsley wrote:
Why, when we have a perfectly good AVI, do we have to trace anybody? Google gives me, like, 400 converter programs immediately. I just thought there would be someone here who could _do_ it with more expertise than I.
OK, here are a few reasons why the original AVI _isn't_ perfectly good: - It's extremely low resolution (240 x 180), not good in a Hi-Def world - It's blocky - It has many visible compression artifacts - The audio is uncompressed but at 22 KHz, again not very Hi-Def So, there are a few ways we could improve it: - Increase the resolution - Use a more modern CODEC - If we're _going_ to use MPEG-1, use a more modern compressor - Increase the audio fidelity - Create a losslessly compressed version (feasibility?) - Create a version using an open format (Ogg Theora + Vorbis / FLAC?) - Add audio into the MPG - Include an increased bitrate version for those on broadband+ And, of course, the reason why we shouldn't start off with the original PG versions: they're low-fi and they aren't going to get any better by re-encoding them. I second the other poster's suggestion to revisit the files. I'll even help if my help's needed. Cheers, Holden