Do you have any software to make those images into a movie such as a gif type. Mainly whats happening will be time consuming to add. I think with JPG PNG file you can collate them into a gif animation and import that file. Hopefully a grownup will correct me an offer a better solution.

Could you not make copies of the new traced layer. That way you could trim each layer for desired effect.

Before starting my journey to animation, I preferred cartoon drawing and creating a site magazine for where I was working at the time. I fell into animation dabbling by accident but still use cartoon drawing and improvement books to give my little animation a helping hand. Inspiration I think needs ...

Like all programs the more added the greater the chance a flaw or your system end being out dated. Prime example is Windows all bells and whistles now Mac is following it :roll: I too had problems with previous AS versions having issues with lack of ram for rendering I had a choice with spending a f...

First if you're using macpro have a quick look with the monitor for ram and processor usage. Might be a rendering issue working overtime more than the background programmes and the systems throws a panic. Second might be worth saving in blocks section seeing which is failing or crashing the process.

I guess more ram better processing speed and improved rendering might help a little. Worth checking on background apps in use and using a monitor for the processor. When I checked my little handy work on rendering it shot through the roof on the monitor

Do you have a lot of layers and other items such as audio actions to process. This could be hold up the play button. Could be more down to the processing via the graphics card speed.

Do you have a smooth sequence when you save to After Effects and no frames missing? With adding to the original and setting it to mov I think quicktime could be the problem as this seems to reduce the quality drastically. Have you had similar problems before with this method?

What is the best setting for exporting mp4s. The quality seems to go way off from the original clean animation What do you find is the better option when send to flikr site or if you wanting to retain best quality?

Use the layer symbol in the tools to move the whole frame this will shrink or expand and move left or right. Then click on timeline while moving the layer and you will see a blue line tracing your movements.

Just a thought! Would taking the layer out of the bones folder then save Next re-enter the same layer back into bone folder to activate the bone movement. Because when he moves his parent or other bone they are not active on the layers. Seems an odd way Feel free to shoot the idea.

BLACK friday normally as they knock off a fair chunk That what I did for 7 to 8. 9 I wanted the upgrade sooner

Might be to with the parent. I quickly skimmed around my little trial and similar happen too. I think when you do all the bones and reparent all then you should be able to move each layer drawing. My brain is hurting now and needs a cup of tea to sooth.

Looks like the parent bone dominates the rest like a bubble effect. Does this do the same with flexible bones and bind to region too?

Sounds like something is hogging the graphics ram. Do you have any other programs working as well webcams or something is making your renditioning slow down.