OT - Internet question, part II

"Jay Masino" wrote


It's always a trade off. On my Mac, I have a utility that allows you to
change the exact percentage of compression/loss in a jpeg. It shows you a
before and after sample of the image, so you can see how bad the image
gets while adjusting the percentage.
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While we are already hopelessly off topic...g I have a question along
these lines.

Here is the situation. I have some totally amazing shots of an airshow that
I want to send to Jay to put on his web site. There are movies of really
"stupid" AoA's by a Super Hornet *crawling* across the sky, afterburner
passes at night just off the beach, and pressure/vapor waves were common
that day, as conditions were just right, ect. Most are QuickTime movies,
and some windows media files, and some stills in JPG.

What do I need to do to reduce these to a size that is reasonable for people
to download from his page. What do you (and others) consider to be
reasonable? I realize that the JPG's are do-able for dialup at a reasonable
size, but that the movies will primarily be viewed by people with high speed
connections, or by people that have plenty of time on their hands. g

These will be converted on an XP machine, with a 2 megahertz processor, and
a cable modem. I am somewhat competent, but by no means a wiz. What is the
program to use, and how? Would anyone want to take a crack at this one?

Thanks in advance.
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Jim in NC