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Thanks to some excellent help from Jonbo on image importing, I've been able to complete my first animation video but I was pretty surprised by how large the file was. This is my first experience with creating and managing animation video files and I'd like a sanity check on what size to expect. QUESTION: Is the file size of about 700MB+ reasonable for the animation video describe below....I hope this description is sufficent.

1. Video type: AVI
2. Video duration: About 18 seconds
3. Animation: 1 Static Character made up of 1 bone layer and 4 image layers but not animated. 1 Dyamic charater structurally the same as the first but animated and following a follow path for all of the 18 seconds.
4. 3 image layers made visible on and off to create a blinking effect.
5. Audio: About 6 seconds of audio on one track.
NOTE: When I saved as an AVI file, I selected "interlaced" vs. "non-interlaced".

All help appreicated.
Bob G.

No, I recommend you to try quicktime mov h264, or some other quicktime format.

Selgen,
Thx. for the response. I'm using Anime Studio Pro 8 and it gives me the following options when I try to export a video: AVI movie, JPEG, BMP, Targa, PNG, PSD, and Flash (SWF). Given that set of choices, how can I get to a "Quicktime mov h264" end result???
Cheers,
Bob G.

You need to download quicktime player, once you have it installed, AS will offer mov export format.

Selgen,
Got it. Thx. I'll give that try. Note: I happen to have a new system and I've not yet downloaded Quicktime.
Cheers,
Bob G

for sure AVI can be big files but 700Mb for an uncompressed AVI is what I'd expect... obviously depends on frame rate and size - an SD TV frame is way smaller than a cinema quality 4K.. but, for example, HDTV - 1080p25 [1920*1080] is (+/-) ...

25 fps * 18 secs * 2 Mb per frame = 900Mb.

if you want smaller files then you have to accept that many (not all) codecs are "lossy".

hayasidsit,
Thx. for the input. My use case is lightweight when it comes to image quality because it only requires posting video's on things like Facebook and YouTube. I figured that 700MB+ for 18 secs was a bit much for that. Hopefully the Quicktime will reduce he file size to something that is good for my use case. I'll try it tonight.
Cheers,
Bob G.

selgen, hayasidist...
Anime is pretty slick software. I downloaded QuickTime, closed and re-opened Amime without doing a system restart, and successfully exported my animation to QuickTime in less than 20 mins. or so
I used the default compression type MPEG-4 Video and the file size went from 700MB+ with AVI to 4.7MB with QuickTime! The rendering of the movie was perfectly fine. I can't see any difference between AVI and QT.
Thanks again for you help.
Cheers,
Bob G.