UPDATE: Well, this turned out to be a non-issue that probably had more to do with Final Cut than AS. I replaced the affected clips in the Final Cut timeline and re-rendered everything and the problem went away. But at least this is here for future reference for anybody else that might encounter the ...

Today I was updating a video that I originally created about a year ago with Anime Studio Debut 6 and edited in Final Cut Pro. I added some new animation clips and dialog, and when I rendered everything in Final Cut, I noticed that some of the animation clips suddenly shift lighter or darker, depend...

GCharb, I've never tried working with a Targa sequence in Final Cut, so I may give that a shot. Yeah, definitely no AVIs - as I mentioned in my orig. post, I was outputting from AS to Quicktime MOV files with no compression. Thanks for the tip! If anyone else has any input on this, please be sure to...

GCharb, Thanks for the reply. I was already aware of print dpi vs video, etc. - I just mentioned what I had experimented with based on other threads from this forum so that people would know what I had already tried. Also, early on as an experiment, I tried creating some animations using only the ve...

I work in the marketing department of a state university, and recently finished my first AS project - it's a video that will be used for new student orientation. I just finished up the DVD and it looks OK but not great. I'm considering this a work in progress and would like to improve the quality. T...

I'm using Anime Studio Debut 6.0 on a PC. My project dimensions are 720 x 534, NTSC D1, 24p. I'm exporting to Quicktime format using MPEG4 compression (although I've also used H.264 with no change in results.) The problem I'm having is that the rendered video comes out dark. Everything looks fine du...