SEGA SATURN DEVELOPER'S MANUAL

1. Overview

Cinepak for Saturn is software for easily incorporating Macintosh QuickTime movies into SEGA-SATURN. With Cinepak for Saturn, you can drastically improve the quality of the video embedded in your game, significantly reducing the production time of movies for SEGA-SATURN.
To create a Saturn Cinepak movie and use it in a game application, you generally need to:

Digitize video material and convert to QuickTime movie
Edit movies using the QuickTime editing tool
Cinepak compression of edited QuickTime movie
Using MovieToSaturn_J provided by SEGA, convert Cinepak-compressed QuickTime movie to Saturn format Cinepak movie
Create an application and play a Cinepak movie using the Cinepak library provided by SEGA

1.1 Features The characteristics of

Cinepak for Saturn are as follows.

Continuous playback and branch playback can be performed seamlessly for both sound and video.
Multiple movies can be played simultaneously.
The
chroma key function allows you to combine only a specific part of a movie onto another movie or still image.
The specified frame expansion function allows movie frames to be used as still images.
CD-ROM XA format (Mode2Form1) is supported, so multiple movies, movies and data (collision data, etc.) can be interleaved.

1.2 Configuration The configuration of

Cinepak for Saturn is as follows.

Table 1.1 Cinepak for Saturn configuration

Program

Description

Movie To Saturn_E

Converter to convert Cinepak compressed QuickTime movie to Saturn format. Using with Macintosh

Cinepak library

Saturn library for playing Cinepak movies. In order to use this
library, a separate file system library, stream system library, and DMA library are required.

Sample program

Sample program using Cinepak library

Film Analyzer
Utility

Utility
program for analyzing Cinepak movie for Saturn.

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Program	Description
Movie To Saturn_E	Converter to convert Cinepak compressed QuickTime movie to Saturn format. Using with Macintosh
Cinepak library	Saturn library for playing Cinepak movies. In order to use this library, a separate file system library, stream system library, and DMA library are required.
Sample program	Sample program using Cinepak library
Film Analyzer Utility	Utility program for analyzing Cinepak movie for Saturn.