animation not saved

Captionworld · Post by **Captionworld** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:05 pm

Hi Guys

I am using Studio pro 8. Spent all day yesterday creating animation in 5 layers. Saving the prgramme frequently as I progressed in case I messed up somewhere.

I went to open the animation this morning and the only evidence is the 5 layer names. Nothing else there. I found the file in the folder and it only 220kb in size.

Have to say a bit gutted having to start again. Any pointers as to what could have happened?

Also the save as, saves the file as "all files" by default. Is this right?

Your suggestions would be most appreciated, thanks guys

hayasidist · Post by **hayasidist** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:20 pm

do you have the layers visible ("eyes" shape beside the layer name)?

did you generate all the stuff outside the view window? (try pressing "escape" with one of the layers slected and visible.)

save as is "all files" - the .anme extension is added by AS

220Kb is not a bad size for an .anme file - size depends on lots of things - but it sounds as though there's a lot of content there.

if you're still stuck upload the 220kb file that you have...

Captionworld · Post by **Captionworld** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:03 pm

Thank you for your quick response.

Yes the eyes are open on all the files. there is a small red dot just to the right of them is this correct or does it mean there is a problem?

And yes I did everything in the viewer window. I tried pressing escape as you said and all that happens is the viewer window disappears.

I tried opening the file from the folder, it says the file may not have been saved correctly, would you like to recover it? I clicked yes it re opened A.S. and still nothing there?

Thanks for the save as problem at least now I know that bit is right.

220kb would seem to me to be more of a small text file size, though I could be wrong.

hayasidist · Post by **hayasidist** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:03 pm

hi - small red dot means "optimised".

hmm -- the "disappears" is interesting... that means it's found "something" - try the "display quality" dropdown and set "high". also try ctrl-R -- render -- to see if that finds stuff.

220K is fine! (obviously depends on what you're animating though!)

Captionworld · Post by **Captionworld** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:48 pm

Tried all sorts and as you suggested Still nothing. Oh well here we go. start again.

Thanks again for your help.

hayasidist · Post by **hayasidist** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:05 pm

upload the file if you like and I'll have a poke at it ... 220kb means there's something there.

or try opening it with a text editor (e.g. wordpad) - copy and paste the "guts" into an otherwise empty .anme file.