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Well I am new to anime pro, so bare with me... If anyone can help you will save me alot of headaches. Here is the first question.

1) I recently did an animation for a wheel spin on a vehicle. When I exported it to an AVI format frames were omitted. Now I made sure that I selected "no skip frame" off the top menu, but the scene still renders with bad chop. It looks like garbage. I also used "render full frames" non compressed. I noticed if I do simple character motions there were no visable problems, but if I render something that moves really fast, the frame rate looks chopped up. Help?

2) second question. What is the general process to make a DVD (prophessional quality full screen, like read DVD movies). What formats are best for this? and what is the best format to use on export. Mpg,Avi, ect...

3) is there a free movie edit program that allows you to cut and paste "parts" of a scene, so that timing issues can be worked out after scenes are rendered? I use the movie edit program that came with Windows XP, but you have to work with full scenes. I want to use just bits and pieces of a rendered scene.

Question 1

If the motion is faster than the FPS (frames per second) the "wheel" moves around faster than the frames change... making it look like frames are dropped. Increase the FPS or slow down the wheel spinning by moving the keys that control the wheel rotation.

If you divide the wheel rotation into equal units, at a minimum you would want each 45 degree rotation to fall on a frame. A full rotation would have at least 4 frames; 0,45,180,360. If you squeeze that rotation into anything smaller the wheel will appear to be "skipping frames" because one or more of those rotations would be skipped. It's similar to the effect when a spinning wheel appears to move backwards.

If the wheel is moving really fast you may want to "fake" the motion by using a blurred wheel.

Questions 2 and 3

Uh... good question. Lots of things involved here. Do a search on the forum. There are a few threads that discuss DVD export in detail. Also a search on the web for information on this could help. Look around for some open source solutions that might do the trick.

-vern

I appreciate the reply.... The only problem with the DVD, well I know how to burn a movie to a DVD, but I am unsure of the formats involved. I think MOV. file is what windows uses. I guess the question is more about what people typically use for anime pro, and how to get to DVD with whatever format. Thanks for answering the first question. If anyone has a suggestion on the Third question, I'm still open on this. Thanks