Re: Quicktime movies

From: Tony Schountz (tschount@mesastate.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 15:19:23 EST


> At 01:31 PM 10/04/1999 -0800, Paul McFadden wrote:
> >
> >Dear Confocal Users,
> >
> >We have been generating large amounts of Bio-Rad PIC (sometimes totalling
> >100MB) files by doing time lapse imaging on living cells.  We can export
> >TIFFS or more compressed (JPEG) images for compiling in Quicktime or the
> >like for seminars, etc.
> >
> >Does anyone have good experince with what file convention to use as it
> >seems straight tiffs will crash the movie after a few seconds.  Because
> >JPEG is good enough for meetings or seminars we thought the compressed
> >images would stream faster than the TIFFs.  Our goal is to be able to show
> >these time lapse of cells undergoing apoptosis with 3-color staining.  The
> >file size is huge, can we stream these in a movie format somehow?
> >
> >Any replies would be most appreciated...

If you must do Quicktime, then you will need a Quicktime editor. If you're
using a Macintosh, there's a shareware program ($10.00) called QuickMovie
available that will suit your needs, I think.

Here's the company's URL:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ChaoticSoftware/ProductPages/QuickMovie.html


--
Tony Schountz, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
Mesa State College
mailto:tschount@mesastate.edu



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