Help Needed for Animated Cartoon Editing

[dr.onestone]

Hello,
I need some hints how to generate an animated cartoon of single stills which are subsequently painted on the PC screen.

My first trials have been performed by using the programs IRFANVIEW and ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO 10, but the results have not been very successful (no clean and sharp single pictures in ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO, the display length of each imported single picture can not been adjusted to a period between 50 and 60 msec.)

I have used the CAPTURE/SCREENSHOT function of IRFANVIEW which enables the shot of the screen (or the active window) by a single hit of the keyboard (or automatically and subsequently after a period of time). Storing the shot you can choose a lot of different file formats. I have selected JPG and BMP, but both formats deliver very bad (unsharp) results when I pass it over to ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO. Do I have to set some parameters in ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO to get better results? May be that JPG and BMP are not the appropriate formats for ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO?

To get smooth motions I think I have to deliver about 18 stills per second to ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO. But the default value for the display period of a still is only selectable in units of seconds (setting the preferences). Is there the possibility to adjust the display length of each imported single still to e.g. 50 or 60 msec?

I import the stills to the timeline of ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO by selecting portions of about 300 JPG files. Is this the right way?

Thank you very much in advance for your help!
Much regards
dr.onestone

[Ron P.]

The only way to adjust image durations to less than 1 second, is changing the duration for each clip, one at a time. Then you could set the duration for a clip down to just a few frames. I don't think I'd want to do this for several hundreds of frames though..

I done a Google search for cartoon animation programs and found a free one that has the appearance of ToonBoom, called Creatoon. It looks like it will do just what you're needing done, and does not cost $1,000 (US) which Toonboom does..

[sjj1805]

You need to use
a video sequence file.