#weird behavior
Well, everytime I think I'm starting to like Animator Studio I discover
something totally messed up that makes me wonder just what the deal is…
Tonight I loaded a 306 frame animation, selected a 70 frame segment and
marqueed a section and added a filter ink to it. (this took turning off the
undo resources to get through, but was finally OK.) Playback of the newly
altered movie was fine, but when I try to save, I get a message: SYSTEM IS OUT
OF MEMORY OR OTHER RESOURCES. It leaves me with no choice but to bail out and
lose the changes.
Interesting thing is that this is on a P-5 60, 16 meg RAM, 590kb free DOS
memory, A clean (two week old ) installation of Windows 3.11, 60meg swap file,
clean install of AnimStudio, nothing running in the background, saving
frequently, etc. Generally when I've seen Windows apps crash they just stop
responding. Funny thing about this is that I can move around, turn on and off
tool bars, minimize and start other programs, etc., but if I try to save, (save
as, Close and save changes, whatever) NO GO!
A quick check shows that I have 79% free resources at start up, 73% after
AnimStudio launches and 60% when AS flakes out.
Is 20 seconds of 320×240 animation *that* much of an assignment for AS to
handle? Heck, it was an AVI that was saved at 256 colors (MS RLE) in Premiere
before opening in AS. It was about 3.5 megabites. AS turned it into a 28 MEG
file! I know it uncompresses the file, but at this rate one would need 90 or
more MEG RAM to work on 30 seconds of video effectively!
Any insight, help, excuses, mea culpas would be eagerly accepted…
Thanks!
Al