Computer Concepts Eagle M2, User Manual

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7. Acorn movie compression routines & RCompress
Make any changes you wish to the editable fields and then click
Compress. This displays a standard Save box.
The default name of the directory is the first eight characters of the
original movie name with _E appended. For example, if the original
movie is called Gerry Wave, the compression directory is called
GerryWav_E You can rename this file if you wish.
Either:
• drag the icon from the Save box to a suitable directory
window, or
• click OK to save the exploded movie directory in the same
directory as the uncompressed movie.
RCompress displays compression progress. How progress is
displayed depends on which option you selected earlier
(Run in task
window or Display in screen mode n).
At any time you can suspend compression by clicking Suspend (if
running in a window) or pressing Space (if single tasking).
RCompress suspends after processing the current frame.
Resuming after suspending
To resume processing, drop either:
• the exploded movie directory or
• the original movie
on the RCompress icon on the icon bar. Save the movie to the
same exploded directory.
Joining an exp|oded movie
Drop the exploded movie directory onto the RCompress icon on
the icon bar: This displays a standard Save box with a Replay icon.
The default filename is the original movie name with_C appended to
it. (In the example above, the filename would be GerryWav_C) You
can rename this file if you wish.
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