QuickTime and Its Palette

Date:    Sat, 18 Mar 1995 22:58:58 -0800
From:    Darren Giles <mars@NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: 8 bit QuickTime
>You can Batch -> SuperPalette in DeBab 1.61 to find an optimal palette for
>your movie, then save this palette into the movie.  (I'm not sure if
>Director respects QuickTime 2's custom palettes when playing back movies,
>however.)

Actually, Director ignores the QT movie's palette, and uses whatever palette is active in the score at the time (or the puppetPalette). So, your best best is to create a small PICT with the optimal palette for the movie, load that into Director to extract its palette, and puppetPalette to it. (According to MacroMedia tech. support, it's better to use puppetPalette than the palette channel).