Color Depth Mapping Problems

[ExitChannel]

I have a cast of 16 bit images. I want to transform them to 8 bit images and
use the "Microsoft RLE" compression to output AVI movies. If I transform the
images to 8 bit and make an AVI movie, I get pyschodelic color cycling effects;
the colors are mapped to what looks to be a random palette. I have tried doing
the transformation with the computer desktop color at 32, 16 and 8 bit color,
and playing the movie back at various color depths, but I always get the
bizzare color mapping during playback. The movie looks ok while it is being
saved in Director. I only see the color problem when I play it back in windows.

I suppose I could go back and import the cast as 8 bit right from the start,
but that will be a lot of work. Also, I really have to use 8-bit with Microsoft
RLE, so either I figure this out or go back to importing them at 8bit.


I am using Director MX 2004 on a Windows 2000 PC.

Thanks

[JB]

I am not aquainted with RLE video.

I wonderif getting a screen capture of playing an RLE video with the
monitor set to 8 bits might get you an embedded sample of the fixed?
standard palette. Importing the screen bmp into director might capture
the palette you would remap to.