Hi I am new to AS Pro I just got the app. 4 days ago been going through the tut. like a mad woman, even made some animations.
I have the guide book and it discusses "Cycling" to fix the slowing near end problem, hold down "Alt key" and click on the frame range at frame 69 (he cycle ends at frame 24). Cause it sets the frame range to repeat over exactly where the animation begins it's cycle.
I don't understand this, tried it and it was more weired.
For who has the Official Guide to Anime Studio, it's on pages 279 and 280.
What he means is the following. A walk cycle takes a certain amount of frames, let's say 23 frames. If your walk cycle starts at frame 1, the Cycle interpolation key is put in frame 24 (1 plus 23).
The pose in frame 1 is the same as in frame 24. By turning on cycling, the pose in frame 1 is repeated every 23 frames, so in frames 1, 24, 47 and 70. Frame 24 itself is never displayed. So the cycle goes frame 1, 2, 3 ... 22, 23, 1, 2, 3 ...
If you end your animation at frame 70, and you playback the animation continuously, frame 70 (which is the pose of frame 1), will follow frame 1. This means the pose in frame 1 is repeated twice, and the resulting animation looks "odd". To correct this, you end the animation at frame 69 (so one frame earlier), so the last frame isn't rendered in the animation file.
You can set the start and end of the animation by left-clicking and right-clicking, respectively, in the Timeline windows, at the frame number bar, while holding down the Alt key, or via the Project Settings... option in the File menu.
When I get things together i will post some of my work.