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04/28/2005: "Render This."
As I write, wowgirl is happily rendering away on my machine at home. The Render takes about 7 hours. I know this because I rendered it overnight, but because of a stupid aspect ratio checkbox that I left checked, everyone looked all tall and skinny. I fixed the setting and left it to rerender as I went to work.
It look like it'll hit around 3GB in total file size. Pretty wild. This means that somewhere around 64 complete viewings can occur before it costs me money to continue streaming it. That should be plenty for the 20 or so people I'm sending it to.
The resolution is 640x300 (-ish, I don't actually know what the height is - long story). I capped the data stream at 300K and it still looks pretty good. So that means you should be able to watch it in full screen mode without too much trouble. I'm going to recommend that you ignore your web browser and simply type the address (which I'll have soon) into Quicktime. As The Voice of Reason (sometimes called Nate) pointed out in a comment below (and which Compton told me on the phone earlier), there is a standalone version of Quicktime without iTunes available. Yes, I'm a l0s3r. Here's the link:
Get Quicktime
If I made this available for tomorrow night and Saturday night, would anyone actually be watching it tomorrow? Say so in comments.