Allrighty -- you may have noticed that we finished the Vertex video a couple days ago. We've been madly eating up CPU time trying to get decent compressions out of the files. I do believe that we are finally complete! Little things may change here and there but we got a quicktime file output at just under 100mb's and we're calling it quits there!

If you want a copy of the higher-res videos I am more then happy to burn a cd with them on it. In fact it includes all the videos except for two of them! The cost to you? One blank CD-R. Email me at bbbach@squeeek.com if you are interested.

If you want a copy that you can play in your DVD system I can also do that. I've got a completely valid VCD version (included on the CD above) that can be burned and played in any DVD player that supports the VCD format (99% of them do!). The cost to you? One blank CD-R. Email me at bbbach@squeeek.com if you want a copy!

If you wish to download it, the final list is as follows:

Quicktime Format:
Low Quality (10.4mb) | Medium Quality (25.2mb) | High Quality (47.6mb)
Super Quality (94.4mb)

Windows Media Format:
Low Quality (9.5mb) | Medium Quality (24mb) | High Quality (48mb)

MPEG
High Quality (187.6mb)

Quicktime Format:
Low Quality (10.4mb) | Medium Quality (25.2mb) | High Quality (47.6mb)

Windows Media Format:
Low Quality (9.5mb) | Medium Quality (24mb) | High Quality (48mb)

MPEG
High Quality (187.6mb)

Finally got some more formats rendered in decent quality and size. These are all in Windows Media Video format. We've been working at getting the Quicktime formatted video done as well -- but thats slow going at this point!

The main problem we have run into is that for each pass at rendering we are looking at a minimum of 15 minutes -- for the higher quality renders we sat around waiting for over an hour (as I type this my system is chugging away at a HQ render in quicktime -- it says 1.1 hours remaining). At the end you look at it and try and make a judgement decision: Is this decent for the size. The smaller the file size the worse the quality (of course). So far our smallest file that we will post is 9mb's -- quite smaller then the other "big" download -- but still larger then I would've liked. Oh well -- can't say we didn't try!

Windows Media Format:
Low Quality (9.5mb) | Medium Quality (24mb) | High Quality (48mb)

MPEG
High Quality (187.6mb)

I know you have all been waiting ever so (im)patiently for it.
It's finally in what I'd call a Done state of being (w00p).

We have an extremely large version uploaded in mpeg format and other formats are to follow as we get them encoded.

Large MPEG File available here (187mb)

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Update @ 2:00pm: We've been trying to get decent encodes out of the files now for several hours -- I think we're getting close but we probably won't get other versions up until tomorrow am. We are looking at a VCD version of the mpeg file (burn it and play it in a dvd player), quicktime versions at high and medium compressions, and windows media at high and medium compressions. If we can figure out how to get a decent looking "low" compression version we'll post one of those as well.

*ugh*

Finally got the pictures of the kittens uploaded. There aren't many and these were the better pictures of the group. They like to be constantly moving, or hide in the shadows.

They're upstairs playing in our bedroom right now -- already investigated one booming crash from up there (turned out to be books knocked off a shelf) -- nothing like having to "kid proof" your house -- or in this case, "kitten proof"!

Marie & Lurk Images

Enjoy!
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