Anim8or_Animation1

=Anim8or - Animation= include component="page" page="menu-anim8or3" editable="1"
 * 1) Set your FRAMERATE
 * 2) Go to the VIEW | PREFERENCES dropdown menu
 * 3) Set the FRAME RATE to 30 fps (frames per second)
 * 4) Enable "Limit Playback" (this will keep the movie from going TOO fast in edit mode)
 * 5) Set your MOVIE LENGTH
 * 6) Choose SETTINGS | SCENE from the dropdown menu
 * 7) Name your scene appropriately
 * 8) Set the length of your movie to 150 frames for a 5 second animation (30fps x 5 secs is 150 frames)
 * 9) Open your TIMELINE
 * 10) Click on the little + sign at the bottom of the screen
 * 11) Drag to enlarge the timeline window as necessary, and click other + buttons for the CAMERA01 track
 * 12) Start "RECORDING" your movie
 * 13) Click the KEYFRAME button - make sure you're in frame "00"
 * 14) Use the MOVE and ROTATE tool and click on your camera, setting it into it's initial postion and rotation. This will "nail down" the camera's starting position in frame 00
 * 15) Click on the CAMERA track, and COPY (Ctrl-C) the keyframes in the timeline in frame 00 and PASTE (Ctrl-V) them in frame 01
 * 16) Go to frame 02 and adjust the camera position and angle - note that you'll be creating new control points in the camera's timeline
 * 17) Copy the control points from frame 02 to 03 to "freeze" the new camera position for one second
 * 18) Copy the 00 control points to frame 04 to return the camera to it's starting point
 * 19) RENDER the movie
 * 20) Use the dropdown menu RENDER | RENDER MOVIE
 * 21) Choose a meaningful name and point to your N: drive (harddrive) - DON'T save to your H: drive - it may crash the program
 * 22) Set the IMAGE SIZE (Resolution) to 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels tall (This is studio quality Standard Definition resolution)
 * 23) Turn Antialiased OFF as this is preliminary "rough" work
 * 24) Click OK and set the compression
 * 25) COMPRESSOR should be set to
 * 26) LARAGITH (if it's available) for the best quality.
 * 27) or DivX for compatibility (but change it's configuration to use the highest quality available)
 * 28) Click OK and begin rendering the animation
 * 29) Rendering could typically take between 15 seconds and 15 minutes, depending on your POLYCOUNT. You have 150 frames to render - if it seems to be taking forever, judge whether you could go back and re-model the pumpkin in less time than it's taking to render a 5 second movie of it. It will take EVEN LONGER when you eventually use ANTIALIASING to make it look "Professional"
 * 30) Render an ANTIALIASED version
 * 31) IF you were successful and time permits, try repeating the RENDERING process using ANTI-ALIASING this time - note the extra time required to increase the quality!