[Niels]

OK, thanks Hans. That’s noted in my todolist. 😉

[Niels]

Sorry about this Itohan. As I said elsewhere a few minutes ago, please try it once more. It looks like all systems are fine.

Let me know if you succeed. If not I will issue your license manually.

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

Hi Itohan and Xavier,

I am not sure what happened when you tried registering, it could have been some temporary maintenance thing on my server or something – anyway, it works fine now when I try it. So I’m sorry, but can I get you to try it once more?

Thanks,
Niels

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[Niels]

OK good – I’m happy to hear that. Thanks!

[Niels]

Hi Raf, that’s weird, because gstreamer is part of the install package. We hate to say it, but did you try to restart your computer?

Thanks,
Niels

[Niels]

Thanks a lot Wesley! Noted.

[Niels]

This sounds very reasonable. Great stuff. Noted. Thanks!

[Niels]

Sorry readers, for this weird language! 😉 (danish)

Jeg kunne ikke være mere enig! Det hele står allerede på vores ønske/todo-liste. 🙂

Som du nok ved så er planen at lave en Android og iPad version så snart vi er færdige med desktop versionen.

Jeg har mine egne ideer, men jeg vil meget gerne høre dine ønsker til storyboard funktionalitet?

Hans Jacob suggests to add storyboard functionality to Animation Paper. That is something I have thought about and it could be worth it. I ask what his wishes for storyboard features are. 🙂 Please join our conversation if you have thoughts about this too!

Best,
Niels

[Niels]

It’s the “Combine Layers” that merges them. You can use these settings:

Or maybe tick off “Include Alpha” if you just want to keep the white background.

Cheers,
Niels

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[Niels]

I too tried a lot of frames today. To test it. As you know, we increased the limit to 10.000 frames when doing a New Scene. This resulted in AP hanging for a minute when I made an original drawing somewhere in the middle – or drew a few lines, etc. This is not supposed to be that time-consuming, so we should be able to optimise this a lot. On the other hand, it is not normal to have 5000 frames or more present at once. Normally you would split your music video into clips/scenes, which is much more manageable for a multitude of reasons.

You could start doing an “animatic” (like a storyboard, timed out to your music to give you the overview and impression of how your video is going to be) – this could be done with only 1 or a few frames per second (FPS), because you don’t need higher precision. This way to can plan and edit your whole video with ease using far fewer frames. Then, once that is done, you do one scene (or a sequence of scenes) at a time. Again keeping the number of frames to a manageable number. When all scenes are done you edit them together using any video editor which also gives you access to transitions, wipes, etc. Much better this way.

 

[Niels]

Alright – thanks a lot Bob. I am grateful you are finding and reporting these things! It has all been noted, so we can get it fixed. It seems to me that the hanging part is because of certain internal parts are not fast enough when you have 5000 frames – so those parts need to be optimised.

Thank you again!

 

[Niels]

Hi Mike!

Yeah, I know 🙂 I am way too silent for way too long 🙂

But things are going well! Not as fast as I would like, but good progress nevertheless. Right now we are finishing export support for mp4 and Quicktime prores with, and without, alpha. Also we have done a lot of work on all the coloring features – still have a long way to go on more coloring though.

We are also very far with a brand new website (same URL) that will go live once we reach the finished version for release (or maybe already at beta stage). With this website it will be easier to get in contact, get help and support.

You are very welcome to write – and let me know what you have in mind. I’m looking forward to it. I try not to expose my email address directly (to avoid spam), but you have it already. It’s the one you got your activation key from. And it is super easy to guess, just use niels@ you know what. 😉

Cheers,
Niels

[Niels]

I guess depending on your monitor and settings it could be hard to clearly see the difference. Maybe I made the difference to small?

This is how it looks – light table off and on:

 

We do not have any user settings for adjusting UI contrast or anything like that, sorry. Let me know if you think that would be necessary?

Thanks,
Niels

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• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Niels.

[Niels]

Actually, I can’t seem to get it to do it here. So I would love a video, if you don’t mind?

Please sent your movie file, or a link to your file, to me by email. My email address is the one that your activation key got sent from.

Thanks a lot!

[Niels]

Hi Bob,

You are right! I just tried it my self – and it does revert to 1000 indeed.

It is NOT a limitation of your computer (which is more than capable!) and not a limitation of Animation Paper in reality – just a number-limit we must have put in for some reason in the early development days. 🙂

I must have imagined that you did not want to ever start with more than that many frames, since its better to add them as you go along. But I guess we didn’t anticipate the way we made audio work. So you are right, we need to set the limit higher.

For Alpha 4 we will increase it to 10.000 frames. Thanks for making me aware of this funny arbitrary limit!

But what you do right now (with your current alpha version) to get to 4000 frames I don’t see a super obvious solution to I’m afraid.  Fastest way to get to 4000 is to do your initial 1000 and then just hold your ‘ key (shortcut for Add Clone Drawing) for as long as it takes to add all of them.

I do not recommend trying to copy and paste 4 times after selecting all 1000. Just tried it, and it will take for ever. For some reason AP seems to be quite slow when copying just clones, that potentially aught to be very fast, like when simply adding them. Anyway, one more thing for me to look into. Thank you!

Best,
Niels