Attached Link: http://digitaldreams.bbay.com/supermodel_strut.avi

I hate to even suggest this, as the file is 4 1/2 MB, but if you have a fast connection, and BBay's server isn't too busy, you might want to take a look at this AVI file. The animation is from DAZ's Motions CD, with some modification (and it needs more work), originally was over 20 Mb, incidently. Most Windows machines should be able to view the movie, Macs will need the Indigo Quicktime Player upgrades which are at Apple's FTP site (and very hard to find). Oh- and the movie is 28 seconds long. I wish we had a animation gallery, but the bandwidth could be a major problem,

Ive never heard of that Indigo Quicktime Player... Can you post the link?

Attached Link: http://asu.info.apple.com/

Actually it's Indeo -- a video codec developed by Intel and used in .avi files. Search Apple's software downloads for "Indeo" and you'll find them. At the moment there are versions 3, 4, and 5; later versions don't supersede previous ones, they implement different methods of compression, so you'll need them all to be able to view most of the .avi files out there. They go in the Extensions folder, where Quicktime uses them as needed. http://asu.info.apple.com/

Hi Jim Really nice job..You should do more.. Have you tried using QuickTime to compress your animations? I use the windows version of QuickTime 4 Pro with the Sorenson codec for animations with no sound and the 2x CD setting for animations with sound. The file sizes are very reasonable and the quality is also very good IMHO. I compressed a 228Mb uncompressed animation with 4 sound tracks to 11.4Mb with no visible loss in quality. Ed

Thank you very much, petercat. Ill get them now.

Attached Link: http://www.bigtimeweb.com/events/sca2.html

I Second Ed. Or use Microsoft Windows Media Encoder, its free, fast, and mpeg 4 is a very good looking codec. For instance, the link below contains a Poser anim composited with video, full piece is 12 minutes long, and ranges from 8MB (for the 240x180) version to 43MB for the high resolution (640x480) version. I have a tutorial on using WME to make web videos there, as well, on the "Main Site" link. I can host animations at BigTimeWeb, as long you send folks to my site to see them (limits of the ISP, not mine). Feel free to email me if you'd like more info.

Ed- I tried the Quicktime compression in Premier 4.1, it did better then the Microsoft compression, but not as good as the Intel compresion. I got the Quicktime updates from Apple's FTP site, after trying a lot of broken links, it is something like: ftp.apple.com/apple_support/apple_software_updates/english_northamerican/macintosh/system/quicktime/indeo_video_3.smi.bin (also get 4 and 5, as petercat mentioned). Also as he mentioned, they are extensions, after decompression just throw them in the System folder, your Mac will put them in the right place.

Guess everyone thinks I'm running a Mac because I use QuickTime, but I use the windows version of QuickTime. I have all the Indeo codecs but never really liked the way the videos looked or played when I was finished. BTW I do all of my conversion from avi to mov in QuickTime. Ed

Yeah, best thing about QuickTime (IMHO) for demonstrating animations is the ability to step forward/back frame by frame, and jump precisely to a particular frame. While I think that both Real8 and WMP7 codecs have surpassed QuickTime (even with the very expensive and slow to compress SorensonPro) for quality, neither can step through an animation to see just what happens where. Hopefully, QT will soon get the long promised Mpeg-4 codec already available with WMP, and still have this unmatched frame-by-frame control.