LinuxPower.org: Making Movies With Linux, Part IV: The Big Picture

“With a few basic animation concepts and techniques under our
belt I think it’s time to start on something a bit larger, animated
gifs are usually limited in size simply because the compression
method isn’t particularly efficient, at least compared with
‘proper’ video encoding schemes. One such scheme is MPEG – if
you’ve read part one of the series then you probably already know a
fair amount about MPEG and so you’re already primed to go straight
to work.”

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