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Ok, someone in another thread recommended Bink for video compression to me. I gave it a shot. I had a 250+meg file, ultra high vid quality (uncompressed frames). Problem was, playback was virtually impossible cause of the quality. I tried out Bink. a half hour of compression,, and pardon my french, but this compressor is the shit! Might not be for everyone, but give it a shot. The site says that the developers for the X-Box are gonna be using this. By the same guys who did Smacker, or something. Click the link. ry

I never had any problems with Bink. I have multiple compression format animations here to compare size: http://www.angrymob.net/animation.htm you be the judge. Before you're too harsh, recall how huge uncompressed video is. 1 frame of 640x480 x24bit color is about 1Meg. 1@320x240 uncompressed is about 250k. My Rumble animation is compressed about 120:1 with almost no loss in quality. Not that much better than Indeo or Quicktime tho. Also remember what they are charging for a commercial grade product- nothing. Regards

After using Bink, I've realized a limitation of the demo. It takes the last 10 frames or so, and makes everything black with the Bink logo. To circumvent this, I'm gonna re-render it all, only with 30 extra frames of nothing. This way I get my whole intended animation, and I cant delete the Bink logo part using premiere or any other video editing software. Otherwise, the quality of the video considering the amount of compression is uncannily incredible. I'd estimate like 10% loss in quality, when considering my 250meg 9 second animation was brought down to about 2 megs, that is what I'd call, "results." Works great for me too dude. ry

Like I said, you really can't beat Bink. Also, you should try messing with the compression parameters, because changing the parameters can make a huge difference in output quality. Bink and Smaker are the main video compression tools for many of the major (and minor) game companies. Don't give up on it without experimenting a bit. You'll be glad you did. mr_sanity

Unfortunately, there is no Bink compressor for Mac. And there is only barely a Bink player for Mac.