#Animation Speed
I would like to put cartoon style animations to video tape. I have an
A4000/40 equipped with 10 Meg RAM, a TPC plus, Drawing Board II, and Glock.
I'm currently using DPaint1V to draw the Anims and AnimWorkshop (latest
version) to play them. Thinking I was all set, I started creating away.
I was drawing in NTSC Hi Res – Lace, using "Max" overscan so I wouldn't have
the unsightly boarders when playing to tape. However, I can't get even a
fairly simple, 32 color (although using only 8 colors), anim to play any faster
than about 20 fps. I find this painfully disappointing. I switched to an
A4000 because my stock A2000 played 2 color hi-res anims at only 20 fps. I
doesn't seem that I've gained very much if using overscan and adding six colors
will drag an A4000 down that much.
Is this normal, or is there a way to speed things up without going to an
expensive accelerator? I would like to use a 64 color pallette with overscan
and play about 24 to 30 fps. Thanks in advance for any assistance or advice.
Bruce
PS I also have Brilliance and ADpro (latest versions), though I haven't dived
into how to use them yet.