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Multimedia Problems

    12-Jul-94 09:31:53
Sb: Multimedia Problems
Fm: Martha J Waddell 70304,63
To: all
Hi everyone, I have a problem that I need help with that is driving me crazy. We have a presentation coming up for one of our major clients in which we will need to incorporate several 2D animations that we will be creating in Animator Pro. The problem we have is that we need to bring them into Powerpoint which does not have direct support for flic files. Normally that in itself would be no problem, I would just bring it in as an object using Media Player and the AAPLAY.DLL. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the Autodesk player that I have been told by them that they are aware of and are working with Microsoft to come up with a fix for. Namely, when you place an animation and then try to run it there is a border and caption plastered on the animation in playback. (For example, across the top of the animation there would be a caption reading something like C:\ANI\*.flc) There is a section under options to uncheck about not having a border or caption around the object but it makes no differance, you can't get rid of it. Again, Autodesk has told me they are aware of the problem and are trying to come up with a fix for it but I'm afraid they won't have anything in time for the presentation we are working on now. Has anyone else run up against this, do you have any suggestions about what I might do? ANY help would be greatly appreciated. It's frustrating trying to use AniPro in what is for us an otherwise exclusively Windows environment but we love the animations we can build using both 3D Studio and AniPro.