Moho Animation Forum

I already own Anime Studio. I was thinking of buying Digicell FlipBook, but I am not sure which one of the versions (listed below with features) I need to finish my project. I want to burn an animation onto a DVD for retail sales. It would be viewed on computer and TV. I’m not sure about which features I would need to do this, but the one that concerns me the most is Maximum Resolution. How much resolution do I need for a commercial DVD? And what about the Telecine feature, do I need that?

If I need more than FlipBook Studio ($298), I should probably consider purchasing TVPaint instead.


FlipBook Studio $298
Frames (1000)
Layers (6)
Maximum Resolution (800x600)
AutoMatic Peg Registration (No)
Telecine (convert 24 fps to 30 fps) (Optional)
SFX (Tone Matte Layers) (No)

FlipBook Pro $598
Frames 1500
Layers 100
Maximum Resolution 800x600
AutoMatic Peg Registration (Yes)
Telecine (convert 24 fps to 30 fps) (Yes)
SFX (Tone Matte Layers) (Yes)

FlipBook ProHD $798
Frames 1500
Layers 100
Maximum Resolution 2048x1536
AutoMatic Peg Registration (Yes)
Telecine (convert 24 fps to 30 fps) (Yes)
SFX (Tone Matte Layers) (Yes)

I'm not familiar with Flipbook. I own TVP and am happy with it. The "telecine" thing strucks me - a decent animation program should be able to deliver output in any framerate the animator specifies - like AS does, and TVP, of course.

From the flipbook website (which is horrible) I get it's an application for animators who still work on paper. I'm not really convinced of their workflow, they leave out too much information which is important. Things they don't mention: which scanners they support, which video camera, and so on.

Overall this software looks good - for 1995. But it's 2010 now, and for the money they want you're better off with TVPaint.

You may join the TVP forum, I'll be happy to answer your questions over there.

For DVD:

NTSC resolution is 720 x 480 (30 fps)
PAL resolution is 720x 576 (25fps)

Why do you think you need Flipbook?