Frame by frame animation limitations ..

Hello ..
For a long time now, I've been generating simple animated sequences, meant to illustrate various parameters of different atmospheric motion (meteorological).
With many of the different image parameters made available - online — (whether "acquired", or either generated graphically) — being updated .. regularly - (generally "hourly", or "half-hourly"), ..
.. @ where doing so, to this point I've had reasonable success at simply loading these individual images - sequentially, into "QuickTime", toward generating a standard ".mov" file, .. whether for storage and reference, or either, for sharing online, with uploading whatever sequence, and with making its url generally available ..
Regarding specific material(s) that I've used in the past to generate whatever sequence, .. apart from images made available - downloadable, online, .. additionally at times, I have worked, to a lesser degree - (also with reasonable success), .. to generate various other sequences, with utilizing different images - (intended to be moved along, ultimately), .. which I've created myself, .. with having incorporated, for example, a combination of images, each (perhaps) representing one of the different main parameters suggested, pointed to above: This, together with, also, —> my added incorporation of some additional elements (e.g. short text, dates adjusted, tables associated, etc.; .. —> each and/or all of these, combined, entered and arranged within "AppleWorks" "Draw", and with my then subsequently "shooting" (i.e. "screen-capturing") each, one at a time ("pdf" files), .. before ultimately converting each - (generally into "png"s), .. toward dropping them into "QuickTime". ....
With this general pretext in mind, recently I've run into two different, main problems regarding my effort (more specifically) to generate a relatively more elaborate image and sequence type where compared with what I have, more generally in the past.
One, connected - I'm thinking, to that sequence-type's more extensive number of different main elements - included /incorporated (matted in).
(.. Essentially, I'm thinking that either the application - "QuickTime" —> is .. somewhat "confused" by and with the end product that I've generated. / This, and/ or either - importantly, .. perhaps with the particular browser through which I'm testing a particular sequence .. — "Safari", o.k. - generally. / "Camino", not so. - for example.)
And, the other, connected to - or with, the apparent limitation that I'm encountering, with regard to the "length" of .. the sequence, that I'd hoped to have generated: ... but (however) am - in fact, unable to.
Here below (accessible) is a specific example of the type of sequence that I've suggested above. (And so - by extension, my broader problem encountered.)
07121710z07122315zmvp.mov
(dimension 944x427 pixels / 43MB)
.. Essentially, where considering my recent efforts, .. where regarding different sequences that I've in fact been able to generate /- for uploading, for test -running online (i.e. those of a size, not "limited" - again "apparently"), ..
.. —> in some instances — or again, within some browsers - (add "Firefox", along with "IE", .. to "Camino" already mentioned above), ..
.. @ upon test, I'm experiencing "choppiness". (.. where I haven't in the past.)
What I'm hoping, is that perhaps, with upgrading to "QuickTime Pro", .. I might be able to get through this "basic" problem. (?)
One other avenue which I've tried - and had some amount of success with, in the past — (In fact, the fairly "distant" past, and where considering a fairly early version of the application ..) — has been where having experimented with "iView Multi-media".
Any advice, much appreciated.
-Rm(richard583a)
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Really hard to read your words but I think I understand your questions.
The issue is the steps you currently use to assemble your project and some of the formatting and data rate problems.
Basic error is color on some of your text. Don't use red or green (in the shades you've chosen) in QuickTime files. Red is hard to read and harder to compress as video. Use shades of gray (notice that your white text doesn't "pixelate" during playback).
Next is image format. No need for the .png format unless you also need the alpha channel support (transparency) found in that format. JPEG is fine for most work.
Third issue is the data rate used in your file and it is the source of your playback "stutter". This could be caused by the screen capture software or poor export settings.
The absurdly high data rate causes the file size to balloon out of control and QuickTime Player is designed to "drop" frames during playback if the data rate can't be met by the viewing machine.
I took your provided URL and used QuickTime Pro to export. I cut the data rate by a factor of 40 and made your file 40 times smaller in file size. This lower file size means faster downloads and less dropped frames during viewing. Video quality is somewhat degraded by that export as I was not working with the true "source" file.
I also set the file to "loop" and to "play every frame" (another feature of QuickTime Pro) so the viewer can study your complex video without having to replay your file over and over.
My "remake" (took ten minutes) can be viewed by clicking the link below:
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/.Public/07121710z07122315zmvp.qtl

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