Just wondering, are you using Styles? It's possible to keyframe a property in Styles but you won't see the keys on the timeline until you select that Style in the Styles palette. Same goes for Smart Bone Actions...if the Style animation keys are inside the Action, you'll need to edit/remove the key...

Look at the entire time line for a key that you added, but didn't delete and now it's effecting the animation. Dale Thank you for the suggestion. However, it's happened a couple of times with the same character imported into different Anime Studio files. It's either the drawing software I'm using, ...

synthsin75 wrote:If there are no keyframes on the layer, check the group/s it's in.

I guess there are keyframes, as switch layers are being used. Sorry, is that what you meant?

Hi, I'm having some trouble with Anime Studio Debut that I don't think I've ever experienced before. Just so you know, I'm using Debut 8, and all the files are imported PNGs. I was doing little tests (just a few seconds), and when I export the videos, the character becomes darker and his face become...

Pro has unlimited scene length; Debut is limited to 2 minutes or 3000 frames per scene. Here's the complete list of differences between Pro and Debut: http://my.smithmicro.com/docs/moho/MohoCompleteFeatureComparisonList.pdf Thank you for answering my question! Aw, that's unfortunate. I'll just stic...

synthsin75 wrote:User manual, page 410.

But I don't even own the software... Can you please just tell me up to how many frames (or how much time) are allowed per video in Moho Debut 12? Thank you.

Thank you for your replies. However, strangely enough, none of you answered my question. I'm working on YouTube videos that'll be about 2 - 4 minutes long. Scenes will definitely change (such as closeups, and entirely different pictures (usually moving) appearing throughout the video). I'm just wond...

dueyftw wrote:All Debut versions have a frame or time limit.

Dale

What would that time limit be..?

Hi. I'm currently using Anime Studio Debut 8 (I know, it's old), and I've noticed that my videos can't be longer than 2 minutes. This really isn't enough time for me. I could just make two separate videos and then put them together in another program, but working on just one video would make my life...

So I suppose if I kept every item (background, character, etc.) at a Z value of, say, 3, it wouldn't affect each item's speed differently when the camera moves (because of depth), but instead would move simultaneously. Because there really isn't any depth if every item has the same Z value. Am I co...

yes. but if you choose to make a z difference between character and background you'll get a parallax effect if you move the camera. this is often desirable. but you'll need to break the bg into layers at different z - one for where you need character to be grounded; and the rest where you need them...

Exactly. In fact I recommend to set every items Z value to 0 (zero), because anything else will cause havoc when camera begins to move. Tip: create a top level group layer (or bone layer) and put everything inside. This way, you can easily scale your whole scene at once and still have all options f...

everything will take care of itself -- your character(s) can be off screen and then walk / fly / be thrown / ... on - even while you're moving the camera. Great, thank you! So basically, as long as everything has the same Z position, I don't have to worry about anything messing up during the animat...

probably not ... but it does depend on exactly what you have in your file and what's been animated. e.g. if you have a character "standing on" the background > moving the camera will "scale" both > scaling down just the bg image will make the character look bigger There are othe...

hayasidist wrote:... or move the camera to a larger z (e.g. at 4 instead of the ASD8 default which IIRC was 1.7321)?

Thanks for your reply. I just tried that out, and it seems to work! Will changing the Z affect the animation at all?