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Pardon my English firstly;

I'm new to Anime Studio 5 and I've tried to find solutions to this,
I apologize if it has already been answered.

I have a problem with the camera, I think.
An easy example:

I open a new project, completely untouched by me,
and if I hit the play button in the timeline,
the arrows in the centre of the new project are wobbling -
as if the camera rotations are all going insane during
every step of the 72 frames even if I never told them too;
and there are no dots on the timeline except the ones in
keyframe 0.

So if I add an image layer ontop of this, it too goes all wobbly
and stretchy, like the camera man is having a stroke.
This just recently happened so it is puzzling to me and I hope
there's a solution or something silly I am missing.

I've re-installed and yet it is the same;
even the sample animations I can import from install folder are wobbly.
I have tried to read the Timeline Help but it has not mentioned
my problem as far as I could extrapolate.

edit:
After studying things, it seems to be the Camera and Layer rotations
are all on random values at every frame even if I haven't
done anything to make it so.

Here is an example flash of my
problem - the animation is a default one from the AS folder
and I haven't touched the camera things and yet it does that wobbly thing.


I hope I made it clear, and I would appreciate any help.

It is strange:
Do one more test:
Create a new file and enable graph mode. Scroll down and select camera position channel (double click). Look at the graph. Is there a random line there? if so you have a noisy keyframe at frame 0.

I believe that initial settings for frame 0 for the channels that always exists (like camera position, zoom and so on) are internally stored. Anyway take a look to the AnimeStudio5.6PRO.settings (or something like that) file. It is a txt file that should be in the user folder. It stores the windows position colors and other stuff for first run. (I cannot access to that file now) Maybe there is something corrupt there...

To avoid that noisy keyframe just right click the keyframe at frame 0 and change the interpolation mode to smooth.

-G

reply to Genete:

Hi and thank you for your help.
It is indeed weird! I tried doing what you mentioned,
smoothing out the keyframe dot things,
and here is what the graph looks like when I open a new file.

It is very messy!

Now, after double clicking the little icons and
adding smooth to the blue dots of the keyframe,
I get a graph that looks like this.
The orange line is smooth, but under it there's a ton of clutter
that doesn't seem to want to go away - and the main window is still
wobbling as the frames run from 1 to 72.

I looked through the animestrings file too, but it looked okay,
though I don't really know how it's supposed to look -
Numbers and such looked intact at least.

I did notice after I re-installed AS5 Pro for the 2nd time that the animation
that loads along with it the first time looked smooth however,
no wobbling. So I tried to delete all the image layers of it sort of
hijack for my own projects - but no - it suddenly went wobbly after
I deleted all the premade layers! This is quite the puzzle ..

Anyway, thanks again for your help, I'll continue to try and solve this
while waiting hopefully for some guiding replies.

-gebby

On top of the timeline is a button named "Settings...". Click this and bring up the settings panel. Check that "Default Interpolation" is set to Smooth (or Linear) and not Noisy. I can't think of anything else that could cause this behaviour. This setting would even survive a re-install, as it is stored in the Documents and Settings folder, not in the program folder.

Barry Baker wrote:On top of the timeline is a button named "Settings...". Click this and bring up the settings panel. Check that "Default Interpolation" is set to Smooth (or Linear) and not Noisy. I can't think of anything else that could cause this behaviour. This setting would even survive a re-install, as it is stored in the Documents and Settings folder, not in the program folder.

Ahhh! That solved it!
Here I was trying out everything but the obvious
and the solution was hiding in the "settings.." button ..


Anyway, thank you, now I can continue learning, or trying to anyway!

-gebby