Movie Clip Update

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Movie Clip Update

Marc Martin
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Hi all,

One thing I've been meaning to do for a while on my website is to
update the movie clips from the UFO episodes, since the DVDs have
higher quality than the old Japanese laserdiscs I used previously.
Also, video compression technology and computer playback capability
have improved since when I did this last back in 1999.

Here is an updated opening clip I just did -- this is in Quicktime:

http://ufoseries.com/movieClips/opening2.mov

Compare this to the old version from 1999:

http://ufoseries.com/movieClips/opening.mov

The new one is higher quality all around, and both are about the same
file size (2.3 MB)!

I realize that using MPEG-1 would probably be more a more compatible
format, but I think to get the same sort of quality would require a
much larger file (like by a factor of 2 or 3), and I need to watch
the file sizes of the movie clips because of the large amount of
traffic they generate.

Marc