[Niels]

To change your keyboard layout, you add say, “US” (not “US-International”) – and then you can change between installed layouts using <Win>+<Space>.

[Niels]

I think Frederik (the lead AP programmer) has the reason for the problem…

You are probably using a keyboard layout with “Dead Keys” – like the “US-International” layout. This enable you to do special letters like “á”. If you type “´” + “a” it will give you “á”. This is why it holds back the first ‘ until you press it the second time and gives you both in one go.

So the solution is to change your keyboard layout. Or you could keep the one you got, and use the drag method I mentioned above. Alternatively, you can setup your speed dial to include Add Clone Drawing. Or if you really need to use the keyboard (and keep your layout), you can hit ‘ and then something else, like space.

I hope this helps, one way or the other. 😉 Please let me know.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

It is supposed to just add a Clone every time you hit the shortcut ‘

We will test this more in depth, but right now it seems to work as intended here.

BTW: Did you know, you can just drag down on the drawing in the x-sheet to add clones? Maybe that works better for you for now.

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

By the way, Frederik (the programmer of AP), suggests you try gst-play from gstreamer. If you are still having problems playing with Media Player, gst-play should hopefully work.

Still I would like to get to the bottom of this. Looking forward to your replies.

Thanks a lot,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, I see. Thanks a lot for testing this.

I got your email with the mov and ap file. I have now sent my exported mov back to you. Looking forward to see if that makes a difference (your mov and my mov was slightly different in size).

If not, it could be because you need to update your codecs.

Please let me know how it goes!

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

If AP exports with an error – or it actually exports correctly and it is a matter of you having the right codec installed – we can hopefully find out with me exporting from here and you try the resulting file with your Media Player.

[Niels]

Sorry about your bug report that vanished. It seems there was a problem (maybe still is?) with the forum. I can’t see your original post and I got nothing to approve. I am happy you are able to post this though.

For Alpha 8 we fixed a lot of problems with exporting of MOV with Alpha. Apparently there’s still one rare problem left it seems. I have heard of one more user who had similar problems as you. For some weird reason there’s no problem for most users – even with the exact same ap file and computer setup.

Do you have the problem if you try to export another animation of yours? (If you don’t have another, please just do a few quick doodles to do a test-export). This is interesting if it only happens once in a while or if it is consistant. Please let me know.

To get your animation exported correctly, I will be happy to help – please email your ap file to me (use wetransfer.com or similar means if the file is large) and I will send the mov file with Alpha back to you. My email address is the one you got your activation key from.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

We don’t have that in the current version, but it would be easy and good options to add to Settings/Preferences. I’ll put it on the list! Thanks!

[Niels]

Hi Bahadir, thanks a lot for this!

You are not missing anything. Shift and Trace (aka Off the Pegs) doesn’t have scaling. My initial thought, when designing it, was that it probably wasn’t needed that much (you can maybe get by, using a lassoed cutout instead) – and having scaling wouldn’t resemble the original analogue technique. However, this shouldn’t of course be a reason to not do what’s right in the modern version of Shift and Trace. So thanks for mentioning this! If you need it, chances are that others do too. I’ll put it on our list. I’ll look deeper into it, but it makes sense.

We could make the interface follow the mouse pointer just as it does when using the Move/Rotate/Zoom-tool pressing Space. But you mention the H shortcut, that one is easier, because it only have the one function, so you can slick and drag from anywhere.

Anyway, thanks a lot.

Niels

[Niels]

I love this!! I saw it already when you posted it somewhere on social media. Thanks for showing it Bahadir! It’s a great example of how to do lip-sync and use annotations in AP.

[Niels]

You’re most welcome.

I haven’t tried it my self on a Surface, but I was under the impression that the fingers WAS automatically only used for panning/zooming/rotating – not drawing. I will investigate this and make sure we add such a feature as you suggest. Because it must be annoying without it! 😉 Thanks a lot for the heads up!

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

OK, thanks. Yeah, it sounds like that’s the explanation.

[Niels]

Hehe – that’s great! Thanks for showing it. And I think I got the solution for the pressure problem (see my reply in your other post).

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Acute,

Please try this workaround and let me know how it goes! Do this: Find the file “qt.conf” (probably here C:\Program Files\Animation Paper\qt.conf). Delete it or rename it (to save it). Then launch Animation Paper again.

This will force Animation Paper to use Windows Ink, which is probably what is needed.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Acute,

Thanks a lot for this. I can see from your other forum post that you got it to install after all. What happened?

Best,
Niels