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I'm not one of the experts here, but I do export QTs and JPGs regularly, and I have imported some images into a project set to the wrong frame rate a couple of times. So there may be a way to re-set the frame rate without adding/losing frames, but at least this is what works for me. If you export a ...

The first thing I do with a new version of TV Paint is change it to Single Effect, so I know exactly what I am doing. I never use multiple effects, I hate effects lingering and being re-applied after I thought I was finished applying them - too easy to make a mistake and apply both the old and new e...

For stop motion, I use a frame grabber to capture and preview the animation. For the highest quality I shoot with a Canon EOS 40d DSLR with Live View. Dragon (a Mac framegrabber) will work well with Canon or Nikon DSLRs - one click grabs the video live view for previewing, and also the final full si...

Thanks for your replies! I've never heard of the Animator Panel, so I can look for it and find the Add Tweens, and see if that helps. Um... I haven't read Lesson 4 of the User Manual, because I didn't get a TVP manual when I upgraded from Mirage! And I never had this problem with Mirage. I do select...

I don't know if this is a bug, or the way some animators prefer to work - but here's what happens, and does anyone know how to stop it? I create a new animation layer in TVP 9 Animation, and drag it out to 20 frames with nothing on them. I draw something on frame one, say it's a falling ball. Then I...

Thanks Malcooning, that makes sense to me now.
But, aha, there IS another crop tool I never noticed before, which lets me read the size of the area I'm going to crop before I do it. I was using a longer and less effective way around all the time.

Slowtiger - Thanks, what a good idea, working on a small area of a large project! Never thought of that. I use Select Rectangle, Crop, but I can never get it to come out to exactly 1920 x 1080. Is there another Crop tool I've missed all these years? Arjan - Not sure if I understand your solution, bu...

Me too! I live in a country (Australia) that has PAL video at 25 fps. Occasionally I work at 24 fps. But I never, ever use 30 fps! I might expect this from a US company who is focussed on their domestic market, with little awareness of the rest of the world - but in France they use PAL/Secam video a...

I know that problem! It seems to happen with H264 compression, and possibly with some other codecs, but not all of them. I gave up and exported image sequences, then used QT Pro to make the QT movie, then I discovered in this forum that it depends on the codec. (It still isn't good enough, TVP - H26...

I normally use 4:2:2 Uncompressed for final output, (usually in 1920 x 1080 HD 25 fps), but test versions to give the offline editor so I can get feedback are usually a lot easier for everyone if the file size is smaller.

I import 3:2 images in various sizes from a DSLR still camera, and want to re-size and crop to 16:9 HD. I can modify the project and specify the size in pixels I want (1920 x 1080) but can only crop all sides evenly, keeping the center. Why not have something like Photoshop's 9-square grid to say wh...

Malcooning, Yes, I map the images of the robot onto a single-polygon rectangle in Lightwave. The backlight frame provides the matte ("transparency map" in LW) - the white background is fully transparent, the black silhouette is solid and shows the matching colour image. (Occasionally the e...

That's right! It handles soft edges and transparency beautifully. Tedious though, switching lights on and off. I'm using it for a flying robot with transparent dragonfly wings at the moment. I map the image sequences on a rectangular object in Lightwave 3d, with the backlight sequence as a transpare...

My main use is a little different - I'm primarily a stop-motion animator, and I use it to fix up and composite my images. It does most of that well, and is far more straightforward to use than After Effects. I import a sequence or QT movie, and there it is, ready to work on. So my answer to the ques...

I've usually had that box ticked (leaving it at keyframe every 24 frames) and I still get a one frame QT most of the time.