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Hello, I am new to TVpaint. I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find a solution anywhere. If I export to RGB, RGBA or YUV, I get huge filezises (2gb for a 16 second file with simple colors) that lags and stutters if played from an external harddrive (but plays fine if played from the main drive). If I export to Motion JPEG, the filesize is normal, but all the colors in the animation ends up slightly lower in the picture than they should, as in, they no longer fit within the line-art. Why does this happen, and how can I avoid it without ending up with enormous filesizes? I'm using TVpaint10, 24fps, 1 pixel aspect ratio and progressive field. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

You didn't say which video file format you export to, nor which codec you use, also you didn't mention the dimensions of your project.

I assume you've used AVI uncompressed, which indeed gives you large files, but stores each pixel faithfully. Many computers can't play back this without problems. So this is a format for interchange between applications, but not for viewing. For viewing choose another codec, like h.264, and maybe smaller dimensions.

Here's the facts, you do the math:
1 frame in HDTV needs 6,3 MB on disc.
1 sec is 157,5 MB.
1 minute is 9,45 GB.

This is for RGB, RGBA adds 33% to that.

Hi, thank you for your quick response. I was exporting the project (989 width, 1187 height with a 3956 wide moving background) to AVI (internal). I don't know which codec, the file format configuration panel was disabled on this one, so I didn't even notice you could select between different codecs at first. By fiddling around with codecs, exporting to AVI(DirectShow), I found one that did the trick. The filesize is now 17mb, and it looks as it should. Thank you very much for the tip!