length of animation?

boozer9wc · Post by **boozer9wc** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:33 pm

I have the anime studio 5 full version which advertises as being able to create animations no longer than 2 minutes but I can not get my timeline to play an animation past frame 72 like 3 seconds. I can scroll through the entire animation on the timeline manually but if I export it or even play it through anime studio it does not exceed frame 72. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated, I am very new at this. Thank you.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:43 pm

Don't know if the feature is the same with MOHO.

You'll see on the timeline the numbers (frame numbers) have a blue line behind them.

Scroll a bit firther right, and you might see the blue line ends at frame 72 or something. Scroll to where you want your animation to play to (eg 500 frames) hold ALT, and RIGHT CLICK on the frame number. The blue bar should now have extended to frame 500. The animation should play from frame 0 to 500.

Similarly, you can hold ALT and LEFT-CLICK on the frame number where you want the animation to start.

Helps?

boozer9wc · Post by **boozer9wc** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:58 pm

awesome thanks a lot man.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:38 pm

i had no idea.
thanks mikdog, great tip.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:25 pm

selgin wrote:i had no idea.
thanks mikdog, great tip.

You serious? But you've been using MOHO for a while now!

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:55 pm

You serious?

yes, i'm serious

i have as default that the animation duration be from zero to zero. so the animation extension is exactly the time i animate.
when i wanted to render longer, i just add a keyframe in some place (in the track camera, generally)

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:30 pm

There is also a trick to set the start and end frame for playback, which can also be very handy for reviewing only a part of the movie in a loop.

Keep the Ctrl key (Command key in Mac OS X) pressed down and left click on the frames number bar. This lights up a green key. Do the same in a higher frame number, only right clicking. This lights up a red key.

If you play the movie inside the project file, it runs only between the green and red keys, in a continuous loop.

If you put a green key in a higher frame number than the red key, the red key will be erased, and the movie plays back until the end of the movie. If you put a red key in a lower frame number than the green key, the green key will be erased, and the movie plays back from the start of the movie.

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:52 pm

Nice.

In fact, all of this is covered in the MOHO tutorials files. I cannot recommend enough that anyone using MOHO/AS read through them and pay huge attention.

However, if you're like me, there's a tendency to just ignore the carefully compiled help material and keep on repeating mistakes over and over and over with no clue whatsoever.

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:01 pm

Rasheed wrote:There is also a trick to set the start and end frame for playback, which can also be very handy for reviewing only a part of the movie in a loop.

ok, this one i have discovered some time ago.

Mikdog wrote:However, if you're like me, there's a tendency to just ignore the carefully compiled help material and keep on repeating mistakes over and over and over with no clue whatsoever.

just like me

... i like to learn the softwares just testing. as my program writer friend says, nothing should need to be explained.

(of course, because of this philosophy, there are a lot of simple tips which i don't know)

Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:44 am

IF you go to File / project settings, you can change the length of your animation there

Default is

Start Frame : 0
End Frame: 72