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Tony, -> Tell us more about the ClariSSA, Super Smooth Anims. The SSA anim format was first introduced by ProDAD of Germany with their Low-cost Video Effects Package "Adorage". SSA Anims are always interlaced. They don't consist of full frames, but rather of different half-frames, like TV. They play a lot faster than Anim-5s do. ClariSSA is ProDADs second package. It allows you to convert any ANIM-5 or series of single frames into an SSA. It offers DDO (dynamic disk operation = playing off HD), a full ARexx interface, some forward-backward effects and four buffers for different anims to combine. The finished SSAs run much faster than the original ANIM-5s. The interface is fully style guide compliant but the operation takes a little getting used to. The drawback is that SSAs can only be played from ClariSSA and not for example from Scala MM or AmigaVision. There is not even a stand-alone player. We use ClariSSA mainly with time-critical DCTV anims. We plan to use it for compiling large anims from several smaller ones which will require a little ARexx-Programming. If you want to know more, contact ProDAD, Feldelestrasse 24, 7717 Immendingen 6, Germany. It costs around $120. However, at the Computer Graphics '9, here in Zurich, I heard that a special, A4000-optimized anim format will be developed. The specs will be given out to developers to integrate the format in their apps (like SCALA etc.). This is, however, still Vaporware. I am in no way associated with ProDAD aside from being a satisfied customer. P.S. to stay with the thread title: ClariSSA cannot integrate sound into animations ;^) Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged