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#Animator help

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#92378From: doug wolfgramMar 19, 1994 1:28 PM

OK you AA fans. I am kinda in a hurry and can't find this in the manual, so if it is there, please point me to it. In animator, can I have a flic which is 2 frames, then generate a transition between the two, inserting the necessary frames? I know I can do this by saving each frame as a separate flic and then joining them, but this is tedious. Can Animator do this automatically? Thanks for any help…

#92440From: dave aguilarMar 20, 1994 1:23 AM

/* OK you AA fans. I am kinda in a hurry and can't find this in the manual, so if it is there, please point me to it. In animator, can I have a flic which is 2 frames, then generate a transition between the two, inserting the necessary frames? I know I can do this by saving each frame as a separate flic and then joining them, but this is tedious. Can Animator do this automatically? Thanks for any help… */ I don't think there's an internal function to INSERT blank frames which get treated/created as transitions, but if this is something you always need, there's always the RECORD capability to do the flic seperation and the transitioning, or POCO. -dave

#92582From: doug wolfgramMar 21, 1994 9:47 AM

I'll look into it. The reason I asked was that a current trendy demo type of ours is playing FLC files as screen savers. We need to do a lot of transitions like the join transitions.

#92604From: dave aguilarMar 21, 1994 11:15 AM

/* I'll look into it. The reason I asked was that a current trendy demo type of ours is playing FLC files as screen savers. We need to do a lot of transitions like the join transitions. */ Yeah, a lot of folks are doing that these days. I've also seen a number of freeware and sahreware utilities here and in the graphics forums on Compserve which play FLC files along with VOC and WAV files. Very small too. Good luck! -dave

#92523From: charles jamesonMar 20, 1994 7:52 PM

doug, what about the post-processing options in 3D studio? chuck jameson silver tongue software

#92583From: doug wolfgramMar 21, 1994 9:47 AM

Too much work. I am just trying to find a shortcut for the Join function. If tAutoDesk would fix the bug relating to joining GIF files as FLCs, it would help, but for now, the only reliable way I can find is to save out single screens as FLCs and join them. It is working well, but I need to develop a macro or POCO routine to do it automatically…