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Hi, I have some animations to which I need to add sound. The animations were originally produced using AAPro, but have have been converted to AVIs (MS RLE Codec) using Videdit. (I still have the original .FLCs). I've seen some comments here about how AAPro and AAStudio complement each other,…

Nik, Thanks very much for the quick response. I have a couple of follow-up questions: 1. Does the .FLC file format use rectangle differencing, or is the entire screen refreshed for every frame? And if the entire screen is refreshed, are there methods that exist for optimizing playback? (Or, is…

Hi, I'm looking for a "standard" animation format for distribution of a CD title containing linear 8 bit children's animation (at 480*360). I hate to bombard you with a grocery list of (6) questions, but I'm trying to get up to speed on .FLCs. Your help will be appreciated! 1.…

Hi, If traditional animation techniques are used to create cel animation on paper, then individual pages (where each page is a sequential frame) are scanned in, can they be imported in to animator pro for display as an .FLC or .FLI? And are there any caveats? Thanks, Steve

Is it possible to create animations in Animator Pro for use with Macromedia Director (for Mac)? If so, how? Thanks, Steve

Dave, I'm primarily looking for supported code, but your message got me interested in checking this out. Unless you have this at you fingertips and could easily email it, a pointer to help me locate it at some point would be _more_ than adequate, and appreciated. Thanks very much, Steve

Thank you very much Peter. I will pursue both. Steve

Will, Thanks for the response. What I'm looking into is to try and compress animation/sound files. Simply using Stuffit gives me 50% give or take. I'm interested in finding some LZW, RLE (or whatever; at this point, haven't found anything) compression that I can call from an app. BTW –…