Animation Shop 3.11

[Dora]

I hope I'm doing this right.

I'm having problems with my AS. It's deleting frames. It was working fine, then from night to morning, it started to mess up.

I've uninstalled & reinstalled the program about 10 times. I've also done a regedit 2 times.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!!

Dora

[Kathy_9]

Hi Dora,

At what point are your frames disappearing? Could you walk us through the steps you are taking.

I know that Cull Animation will remove frames.

Regards,
Kathy

[Dora]

Thank you for answering.

Well, suppose I'm making an animation with 10 frames. I go to "file save as". It goes through the saving process. Then at the end I only have 1 frame. It's deleted the rest of the frames.

Dora

[Dora]

What is the cull animation?

Dora

[Kathy_9]

Cull Animation can be found in the Animation Menu. Basically you would use it to decrease the size of the file by removing every so many frames.

click for larger view.

This article might help to explain. https://icon-tutorial.livejournal.com/11152848.html

[Kathy_9]

Thank you for answering.

Well, suppose I'm making an animation with 10 frames. I go to "file save as". It goes through the saving process. Then at the end I only have 1 frame. It's deleted the rest of the frames.

Dora

If you open the saved gif image do you see any animation?

[Dora]

No, I'm not using cull animation. I just went through the process to make sure & that's not my problem. I've tried to install it onto another laptop & it did the same thing. I have 5 different sets of AS programs so I'm not using the same one when I tried to uninstall & reinstall it. I've done that about 10 already. I've also done a regedit twice.

Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Dora

[Dora]

Yea, when I reopen the saved gif, I have one frame only.....when I had 10 to start with.

Dora

[Scribzy]

Does it do the same thing when you press F12 to save?

[Kathy_9]

Could you give us a step by step of exactly what you are doing? Are you using File - Save As or File - Save Frame As?

[Dora]

I just tried by pressing F12 & it did the same thing. I was using AS everyday. I like to create stuff. How I did it was, by saving the gif as "save as".

Again, I really appreciate your help. I've been at this all week.

Dora

[Scribzy]

Does it do it on all gifs saved or is it just that one gif?
(It maybe the optimization when saving deciding there is not enough variation between frames)

Goto:
File>Optimisation Wizard>
Make sure Create a new animation from the new optimized animation is ticked.
Click Next
Untick Use these settings when saving unoptimized files.
Click NEXT>NEXT>NEXT>FINISH
and delete the new Gif and try saving the gif again

[Dora]

I don't create any new animations, I use images that are already made.

I just tried to do the same process as I was doing before & this time, it saved 5 frames when I started of with 10 frames. I was able to save all 10 frames before. When I would go through the process of saving the image, it was leaving me with 1 frame, so it changed. It got better, so something is happening. Here's a link to my settings....http://designreflections.altervista.org ... /AS03.html

Here's an example I did. It shows the 5 frames it left me with.


Thanks!!

Dora

[Dora]

I forgot to mention that in the image, I'm trying to get the eyes to blink.

Thanks again!!

Dora

[Dora]

Again, I forgot to mention one more thing.

I colored in the worm's eyes to make them blink. The images of the worm with the filled in eyes is suppose to be to be in the 5th & 8th frame, & it moved them to the 2nd & 5th frame.

I hope I'm explaining correctly.

Thanks!!

Dora