I bought some pre-made characters just to see how they were set up and I was very surprised to find that none of them were set up to use switch layer interpolation and most all of them had a standard set of phoneme shapes which I found to be less than adequate. What does "etc" mean exactly...

Some things can be drawn together on one layer with passable results, but you will probably want to draw things on separate layers for various reasons.

I did accidentally type Ctrl-T instead of Ctrl-R and I thought the program had frozen up. It wouldn't do anything for a minute or two until all the fonts had loaded.

When I use the uncompressed AVI render, I have a choice between a V210 or a UYVY codec. That's not something I've ever heard of before. When I choose uncompressed, there is no codec to choose from, it's just uncompressed. Maybe that PNG codec that you mentioned would work. I usually use animation c...

Try rendering out of Premiere as an uncompressed AVI, then use VirtualDub to compress for YouTube using MPEG. http://www.virtualdub.org/ Always use an uncompressed, or lossless codec while working on the project. Compress to a web format only after you have a completed animation. I usually use Quick...

One thing I noticed working with ASP is that there doesn't seem to be an option for field rendering. Am I wrong? When the camera does a quick move, I really notice the stuttering effect. I tried the motion blur, but the results were really poor and took way to long to render. Field rendering would b...

Hey Finkdaddy, Here in NTSC land, the square pixel dimensions for output are 720x540 @72 dpi. 72 dpi is the correct resolution for TV. 29.97 FPS, not 24. This is for regular size video (4:3 aspect ratio), not HD (16:9). If you are uploading to YouTube this stuff isn't as important as if you are goin...

I have been having a similar issue. I'm not sure if it's the same thing. I think this happened when I imported a Adobe Illustrator file while the timeline pointer was not at 0. I used the Sequencer to move it to frame 0. This seemed to cause some problems that weren't clear right away. I sized the i...

I have seen this too. Sometimes I see what looks like an alpha channel in the flash.

I was trying to use channel noise to animate teeth chattering, but it wasn't working because there is no control over which axis of movement the noise is applied to. It's applied to all. In the case of layer translation, it even applies to layer order, which I don't even have turned on. My jaw layer...

Dynamics are based on the "previous" frame. If you jump from frame 2 to frame 50 then the dynamics on frame 50 are based on frame 2 not frame 49. I think it would be a simple fix to simply have this difference always based on the actual previous frame (49 in this case) rather than the las...

Shouldn't bone dynamics be based on the nearest keyframes? Why should it matter how fast I scrubbed through the timeline? That's irrelevant and deceptive for previewing. When I click on frame 50 and render it should always look the same. Is there a way to calculate the bone dynamics and bake the mot...

Is it my imagination, or are my bones losing their bindings? On many occasions I have set up bones and gotten them to work right. Later I will open the same file and find that pieces of my character are moving around which shouldn't be. I know I had them working, but now, they're not working right. ...

If you want to move the 1 frame poses by the time line and you want all the sub layers follow, you can use the poses script or the bone morph dial script. The first one is available for non pro. I haven't tested the second one, though but I believe that is better than the first one in term of perfo...

I decided to try doing a head turn using actions. I did some research, and watched a tutorial on YouTube, but I still have some questions. One thing I discovered is that unlike using a switch layer, keyframing is much more difficult. I have several layers involved in the actions. I am using a group ...