[Claude Lavallée]

Thanks for your response, Charles. I am in no way wed to any codec, method or application at this point; I just need to know how to get to the result I want, or as close to it as possible.

I was going to compress my QT movie to Flash and then have someone else put it on a CD-ROM so that when users put the disc in their computer, the movie automatically opens up in whatever web-browser is installed in their computer and just plays. If MPEG-1 can work the same way, than I’m fine using MPEG-1. I’ve been under the impression that MPEG-1 doesn’t get any bigger than 320×240 though: am I mistaken or is there a way to keep my window at, say, 800×600 (in Compressor or another application)? The thing about the window size is that my client wants their movie to open up big on computer screens. But you know, if there’s no way to do this and have the movie actually play smoothly, then that’s that: it’s just going to have to be smaller, like 640×480. I’m also probably going to offer two versions of the movie on the CD-ROM – a big one and a smaller one for slower computers – in an attempt to respond to my client’s desire for a big movie, while addressing users’ various CPU capacities.

Is there any other way that you can think of (using other applications &/or other compression codecs) that I can create a movie or animation that will play off a CD-ROM and show up big and sharp?

Thanks again,
Claude