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  Output size and players…

  Posted by Randall Murphy on May 25, 2007 at 1:34 am

  I’m looking to output a video and have it constrained to that size. It will be viewed either on a CD or DVD. How do I do this? Maybe use director?

  Randall Murphy replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  May 25, 2007 at 12:17 pm

  Constrained? When is a video not constrained? In Flash?

  My point is, a video is always constrained to a particular size unless:
  a) you set its Quicktime properties to play bigger, or
  b) you set up a Flash movie to allow for scaling, or
  c) the movie is a WMV and the last time a user used the player, it was set to a non-100% size.

  Now then. If you want the video to play on a computer, I recommend DVD. Render to 720×480 (if you’re in NTSC-land), use a compression app to compress it to MPEG-2 (still at 720×480, of course), then a DVDAuthoring app to make the DVD.

  Only make it on CD if:
  a) the target users do not have DVD players and/or
  b) you expect to use interaction that DVDs can’t do.
  For that, you can use Director and make an executable file.

  Does that help?
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  Randall Murphy

  May 25, 2007 at 9:46 pm

  What I mean by constrained is any video played on a computer, the user can make it “screen size” or stretch the video. I am making a corporate presentaton that looks great if I shrink it down slightly, so, what I want to do is put it in a player that can’t be stretched. It stays a fixed size. That’s why I was thinking embedding it into a projector file with director. This is used for such things. I may want to add some buttons, so this will work as well. I didn’t know if anyone knew any other ways of doing this.

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