Re: .pic codec for QuickTime

[Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk>]

Sorry, it wasn't meant to sound like a reaction. We send material to the USA and sometimes it's usefull to use pict because it uses lossless compression, handy for fitting larger amounts of animation (sequences of frames) on fewer DVD's. I know soft pics also have lossless compression, but the format isn't supported at the place we send the material to, whereas pict's are. Jpegs aren't lossless and Tiffs take up masses of space, so picts are quite usefull, still.
Is there a more up-to-date alternative?



Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:

My apologies, I didn't expect this reaction... PICT is an early 1980s 8-bit-only format designed to go with the old Macintosh QuickDraw, and I hadn't encountered people choosing that over the more popular 8-bit formats.  I don't think mental ray supports it. I wouldn't see myself using it except for making icons or splash screens for OS 9.0 applications resources.  

  

From: Chris Marshall

Yes, Pict or Pct!  I'm aware of the differences between this 
and soft pics.
As a 'useless legacy format', is there a reason we shouln't use it?

Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:

    

you use Apple's Quicktime PICT files?  that's what quicktime 
      

thinks .pic are, and the format I meant we support from SI3D 
(in our case with the file extension .pct)
    

From:Chris Marshall

What's useless about it? We still use it.
      

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