:oops: It's always nice to be pointed to obvious things. My only apology is that I test another application at the same time right now, so this tends to mix up things a bit ... However, there must be something I haven't done the way Myles would have done it, since I work on a project which uses laye...

Just a tip: don't export clips you want to work with in Premiere with a compression like MPEG4. I always use the codec "animation" because it's lossless, therefor I work with best quality in Premiere. The final movie I export with the codec I want, from Premiere. I just guess that your sou...

The grid makes all the difference ... animators are constantly counting frames. I can time most movements in my imagination, thinking in 8 or 6 frame equivalents. The grid from Manu's example is quite nice: grey lines (not black ones!) which blend into the background. Notice the shift in paradigm: i...

Hm, I wonder how easy or difficult this task would be for german. Papagayo worked great once I wrote every sentence in this silly Kennedy-Phonetic-German, but the sheer amount of work for my current project is too much to be handled that way. My knowledge of languages and linguistics is good enough ...

Yes, this might be an issue right now (I haven't tested this myself). In the moment Moho imports images by their dimensions in pixels. So I can't offer a solution for your problem, sorry ...

Ah, OK. Your rendering time is OK, mine is not faster nor slower. As a comparison, AfterFX renders at the same speed, if not slower (on the same machine). But it has a nice option: you can work with low-resolution image files while preparing your animation, which get exchanged with the hi-res ones o...

vivi: I just did a HDTV piece (1920 + 1080) and rendered it at half dimensions. What exactly do you mean by "slow"? The Quicktime plays nicely and smooth on my dual 1.8 G5.

Or did you refer to the rendering time?

Have you taken care to choose the right kind of layer when you made new ones? You can't put a vector layer into another vector layer. But you can put a vector layer into a bone layer, a group layer, or a switch layer (to mention some just for a start).

I'm just testing two programs at the same time: Moho and Mirage (www.bauhaussoftware.com), because I need some software beside Moho which is able to deal with bitmaps (scanned drawings) in a comfortable way. It looks like no software is perfect (will it ever be?) or at least meets my requirements, s...

And here, of course, my own wishlist, picking up some ideas of others: 1. Animatable depth sorting of layers. (I did mention this before, did I? *gg*) 2. Multiple audio tracks, but with the added functionality of assignig each of them its own Papagayo file which controls a defined group of layers. T...

That's a long wish list for sure, and I would agree to some points (most of all: animatable depth sorting of layers!). However, it seems to me that the wishes go in different directions. There's one group dealing with automation and scripting: that would be, in my opinion, not too difficult to do si...

The most comprehensive source of technical data about HD I know is the Digital Factbook by Quantel ( http://www.quantel.com/resource.nsf/Files/Quantel_Digital_Factbook/$FILE/Quantel_Digital_Factbook.pdf , with another document about digital film only to be found at the bottom of http://www.quantel.c...

If they did, I'm not aware of it - haven't had an opportunity to work with it for years. Yes, that would be a shame. The original concept of Animo (vector) was moved into the "Special effects" module, while they concentrated their marketing on "just another scan and ink animation prog...

I can't speak of recent Illustrator versions since I'm still happily using FreeHand 5 ... which is able to export in Illustrator 5.5 format. Import in Moho works smooth and fast on my Mac, the only drawback I've experienced so far was that Moho quadrupled the number of control points, blowing up the...

The nearest program conceptwise to Moho would be Animo , by Cambridge Animation Systems ( http://www.animo.com ). I was lucky to be one of their beta testers in 1994 and worked with it until 1995. Animo already had the concept of bones and vector shapes, with billions of possibilities to work with. ...