Zion Movie Compression readme.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Original Source 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Name : Clan [zion] Movie.mov
Total Size : 499 MB
Format : Apple Quicktime
Sound Type : PCM 22.0kHz 16bit stereo (67.4 MB)

Compressed Output 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Name : Clan [zion] Movie.avi
Total Size : 124 MB
Format : DivX Avi
Sound Type : MPeg-3 64kbps 22.0kHz (LAME) stereo
Codec Required : DivX Alpha 3.11 (minimal)

Summary
~~~~~~~
Finch requested conversion of his quicktime Q3 movie to make it more accessible for download. over the internet.  Rad Video Tools (www.radgametools.com) was used to convert the MOV to AVI and then furthercompressed using nandub.  A Dual pass, smart bitrate (1200-700) compression was applied and the sound was also compressed using LAME mp3 compression @ 64kbps.  The final size was 124MB.  This size was achieved by striking a balance between quality and size.  To further increase the quality of the compressed movie would have made the file alot larger.  Obviously the quality of the original is better than the compressed format - but the difference is not very high (about 10-20 % better in plasces of very fast action) In anycase 124Mb for over 13mins quake is not too bad. 

Known bugs/glitches
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are glitches here and there with sharp contrasting images (normally text) - this is a side effect of using the SBC tool for compression  - live with it.

Additional comments
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think Finch has done a great job with this movie.  It is his first one and I found it to be highly entertaining.  I hope he does a few more :) looking forward to it.  I've found his clan [zion] to be a bunch of really friendly people who truly play the game to have fun and nothing to prove.  The movie is a wonderful showcase of their achievement over the year.  gg fire5tar!
 
Any comments/discussion you can mail me; devil@clan2ex.com



