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In reply to: I can’t export the animation in mp4
In reply to: I can’t export the animation in mp4
In reply to: I can’t export the animation in mp4
In reply to: I can’t export the animation in mp4
Hi Beatriz, thanks for writing!
This is a known bug that manifested on some systems. It has been fixed a while ago. Are you using the latest version (Alpha 8.1)? (You can check by opening the About window.)
If not, you can download it here: https://animationpaper.com/download-pre-release/
If you do already have Alpha 8.1 and you still have the issue, please let me know, and I can help you further 🙂
Best,
NielsIn reply to: Cycle/loop Drawings
If you are using the “beyond last drawing” features, they are only about what to show after the layer ends (after the last drawing). If you set it to cycle, it will cycle the whole layer, i.e. all drawings in that layer.
If you want to cycle a particular sequence of drawings, you can shift-select the sequence of thumbs in the X-Sheet and hit @ (“Cycle Selected Drawings Once”). You can press @ a few times, if you need it to cycle a few times.
What! I just wanted to check this for my self and found a bug! If you select the last drawing first and then shift-select the first drawing (you get the sequence selected as intended) – however the selection goes away after the cycle command (so you need to select it again if you want to repeat the cycle command). If you select it first-then-last you keep the selection and you can press @ as many times as you like. 😀 We will fix…
In reply to: Mac OS – Old versions
Links for the Mac a few versions back:
https://animationpaper.com/files/a5/AnimationPaper.dmg
https://animationpaper.com/files/a6/AnimationPaper.dmg
https://animationpaper.com/files/a7/AnimationPaper.dmg
https://animationpaper.com/files/a8/AnimationPaper.dmgThey are Alpha 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively.
In reply to: Fast Zoom / quick close-up
In reply to: I need to shrink.
Sure, best way is to just start with the correct resolution. If you are doing shorts for Youtube, I would use 1080×1920 i.e. a vertical “portrait” aspect. On other social media, like Instagram, you can go with square, like 1080×1080.
So when you start your projects, make sure to go to the menu File > New Scene… and type in the preferred resolution.
If you need to change resolution on existing animation you might have done in 16:9 horizontal “landscape” aspect, you can experiment with the options in Scene Settings.
I hope this helps?
In reply to: I need to shrink.
In reply to: I need to shrink.
Hi Potato Queen! Thanks for your question.
I understand 🙂 There’s not a direct way of doing that in the current release unfortunately. We are working on it – and we’ll have a great feature for this in a future release.
However, to help you now, if you need to just shrink everything towards the center of the frame, you can do it this way:
1) Go to the menu File > Scene Settings… And change your resolution as follows…
2) If you want to make more room around your drawings, say 120% (aka 20% extra), then you multiply your resolution by 1,2. I don’t know your current resolution, but as an example, if it is HD 1920 x 1080, you type in 2304 x 1296 (i.e. 1920 x 1.2 and 1080 x 1.2). Make sure to choose the option “Crop/Center” and click OK. All your frames and layers will now have the extra space around it.
3) You can now scale it all back to your original resolution, by going to Scene Settings again and select (or type) your original resolution (like HD 1920×1080). This time make sure to use “Keep Aspect” and click OK. Voila! 🙂
Remember, in Animation Paper, you can change resolution, scale and rescale all you want, without any degradation or blur happening to your lines. No worries 😉
Let me know how it goes and if your have further questions!
Thanks,
NielsIn reply to: Fast Zoom / quick close-up
OK, we’ll make it 3x as the default. We might add the options in Settings later. I tend to prefer not to have too many options (just have it set right from the start 😀 I know that is not always possible because things depends). I just want to keep stuff as simple as possible – otherwise it quickly gets cluttered and can be a bit confusing with too many options. I’m of course talking generally here. We begin with the one new feature on Z and then we’ll see… Thanks again Bahadir!
In reply to: Fast Zoom / quick close-up
I agree with you. If you are not particular interested in the hold functionality, then having press/press is better. Then we don’t run into problems with stuff you can’t do while zoomed in.
Actually it would make sense to have this on the z key then. It makes sense because we are zooming – and I like the position of the z key on the keyboard better than the + key (thinking of fast workflow and minimum hand movement). I know we already have zoom (if you hold z) assigned to z, but it could work quite well to do this fast jump zoom in 4x, if you just tap your z key quickly. Say, press it for shorter than 250 ms or something. So a quick tap on the z key will jump into your drawing at 4 times the zoom level and tapping z again will jump back. Holding z, will show the large zoom symbol and let you zoom smoothly by dragging as it works now.
I like that! 🙂
In reply to: Fast Zoom / quick close-up
Yes, we have kept Ctrl on PC, which will always correspond to Cmd on Mac in our setup. Likewise will Alt on PC correspond to Option on Mac.
Yes, I was thinking holding the key pressed, while you can do other things like drawing. However, you wouldn’t be able to press other keys of course, which makes this feature a strictly temporary thing: Drawing… hold +… drawing detail… release +.
I was thinking the opposite would be handy, if you where drawing the details (not a temporary detail as above, but a bigger part of the drawing needing to have a zoomed in view) – so you would just be zoomed in normally. Then you wanted to check the bigger picture – see how the details look in the full frame – so you press and hold [-] for a few seconds and release the key again.
Two options? I think that is exactly what I am thinking. + and – keys. But maybe I’m not understanding what you mean by two options? Please elaborate. (If you have the time of course. You are probably busy. Appreciated!)
In reply to: Fast Zoom / quick close-up
I see that they use Shift Z for this in Toon Boom. Shift Z to zoom in – and Shift Z again to go back out. I guess that you would prefer it different? I mean, one key only and using hold/release.
So a logical key could be the + key. Holding it will make the current zoom level go up x4. When you release the + key, it will pop the zoom back to where we came from.
Would that work for you Bahadir?
… Just came to think of a similar (but opposite) feature: Hold the – key to zoom out (to reveal the whole canvas), and when – key is released, pop back into the zoom level we came from.
In reply to: Fast Zoom / quick close-up
I understand. Holding one key is better. And having all the different options for something people use so much are great. I’ll note this suggestion of yours! Thanks a lot!
Yeah, holding Ctrl can lead to undesired stuff. Was it you who mentioned using undo (Ctrl Z) a lot while drawing? This (also) led to accidentally changing pen size/opacity. So actually, in the current internal version, we are now using Alt to hold for changing pen settings. Works much better! This is part of next release (the beta).
