I thought an episode of 'Fresh Prince of Balair' was going to start lol. JK, nice video Selgin and thanks for sharing!!!

You could use animated shape order.

Are you using any AVI uncompressed videos in the animation? Those will really slow a computer down.

This is kind of embarrassing of me to ask since I am a long time user of AS and long time member of the forum. When masking, is there a way to reverse the way the masking works as is? I mean, the shape you create will hide the above layers leaving the stuff out side the shape visible? In other words...

Go to 4 seconds in the blue timeline not frame 1. Also, stay in the smart bone blue time line when you manipulate points not the drawing time line.

You will have to use masking to do this or us a photo editor and erase the hole and save as png and import that to AS. The masking will be real easy for this. Create a group and put the image in it an a vector layer. Set the group to hide all. Set the vector layer to "add to mask but keep invis...

Scan it and import the image to AS then trace over it with the add point tool is how I do it.

I live in Weatherford and would love to teach the classes but will be going on vacation during that time. There are a few others on this forum from the DFW area that might have the time.

I have read this topic a few times and have not said anything hoping someone else would. To me the back ground(not saying it is bad) just does not go with this character. I would rather see you make the back ground in AS. Or maybe add some color to the back ground in that program you used. Just my 2...

The 64 bit version does not support QT. If you try and import a QT video, all you will see is a question mark. You will have to use the 32 bit version. Or use an avi video with transparent background which should work in the 64 bit version. I believe this is a QT problem and has nothing to do with AS.

Correct and have the arm/hand layers sets in front of and behind of the mic so you can switch to those when you need to be in front of and behind the mic.

I agree, I hate having to hold down the 'ALT' key to scrup through the timeline.

Put the layers into a group or bone layer then double click on that layer and select depth sort and click the box that says "enable animated layer order."

Hold the shift key down while using the create shape tool.

It keeps timing out on me over the last few days.