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Pixar Finally Offers Animated Shorts on Pixar.com

Posted by chrisd on from the chess-or-self-hatred dept.

NicerGuy writes "Today I was bored and decided to check out pixar.com. I hadn't been there in a long time, but was pleasantly surprised to find that they have finally made all(?) of their animated shorts available for download. The films, which are in QuickTime format, include my favorites: Geri's Game and Luxo Jr."

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  1. Quicktime. Great.... by wowbagger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The question I have is, are these Quicktime using a codec that non-Mac, non-Windows folks can view?

    Also, the big argument about Quicktime is "Higher quality, lower bitrate". Does this hold true against MPEG4? DiVX ;)?

    If Pixar is USING Linux internally, why don't they support it more EXTERNALLY?

    And the last question: how does Pixar convert from whatever format they use internally to QuickTime? Are any of these conversion tools available for Linux?

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    1. Re:Quicktime. Great.... by forgoil · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Higher quality? Give me a break...

      We are not talking about just any source here, we are talking about very high quality rendered animations. It's beyond me how they can release these in anything but the higest possible quality (anything less than DVD quality is a shame).

      Small crappy video might be nifty for modems and not that terribly gr8 sources, but in this case I would argue that the highest possible quality (that everyone can watch) should be the goal. I rather have them put these on their DVDs (which reminds me that I need to buy more of those) than in low quality