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Can't change width and height?

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I just installed AS. I have to ramp up quick to determine if we can use this program for a client project. So far it has been far from intuitive :(

First hurdle is something that typically takes seconds to edit in all other programs - change the width and height. I can open the project settings, type in a new width and height but when I click "OK" the value snaps back to the default.
I have ben using graphics and animation programs for over a decade and this has me stumped. Been trying for 30 minutes to change this setting - why is this so hard? Do I need Studio Pro? Hope not.
The help docs do not seem to cover it as I am doing it exactly as the help docs tell me to do it.

please help.
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Re: Can't change width and height?

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mudbubble wrote:I just installed AS. I have to ramp up quick to determine if we can use this program for a client project. So far it has been far from intuitive :(

First hurdle is something that typically takes seconds to edit in all other programs - change the width and height. I can open the project settings, type in a new width and height but when I click "OK" the value snaps back to the default.
I have ben using graphics and animation programs for over a decade and this has me stumped. Been trying for 30 minutes to change this setting - why is this so hard? Do I need Studio Pro? Hope not.
The help docs do not seem to cover it as I am doing it exactly as the help docs tell me to do it.

please help.
THis is very odd as usually the file/project settingd ... then typing in the width and height > OK always works.

There are preset settings available for the common TV and web options - have you tried those?

Can you state which platform and AS version you have ... may be a bug.

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Post by mudbubble »

Thanks Rhoel,
The presets are just fine. It's only when I want to type in my own values it snaps back to whatever was there before when I click ok.

I am running a healthy win machine with XP Pro with a 2.6 Ghz Intel and 1GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 video card.

I am running version 5.5 build 20060822

Might be time to reinstall. I will do so in the morning and report back - good to know it's not the intended way this feature works :)

-thanks again
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mudbubble wrote:Thanks Rhoel,
The presets are just fine. It's only when I want to type in my own values it snaps back to whatever was there before when I click ok.

I am running a healthy win machine with XP Pro with a 2.6 Ghz Intel and 1GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 video card.

I am running version 5.5 build 20060822

Might be time to reinstall. I will do so in the morning and report back - good to know it's not the intended way this feature works :)

-thanks again
This might be an AS lite "feature" - many options were disabled in the non-pro version. Perhaps someone with AS lite can verify this ... I only have ASP loaded on this system so I cannot test. Certianly ASP 5.5 on XP Pro works fine.

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Post by myles »

Note the Restore Defaults button is fairly close to the OK button. This will snap the values back to the default, particularly if you're careless swiping over it with a tablet pen on the way to the OK button instead of a mouse click directly on the button.

Ooh, good point Rhoel - the page at http://www.e-frontier.com/go/animestudio/compare says Anime Studio (standard version) has a limitation of a maximum 768x768, unlike the Pro version which has a maximum of 9000x9000.

Also, I doubt this is the problem (which I've never seen before), but just thought I'd mention it:
Changing the project settings has no effect on the workspace size, only on render size.
You can have a project setting of 4000x3000 and a workspace view of 320x240, or vice versa (umm, assuming you could display a window that size).
So changing the project setting will have no affect on the workspace view after you click OK, assuming you haven't changed the actual ratio of width to height.

Note also you can't modify the preset sizes. Typing in your own values only changes the current project settings - you can't type in new values and click the presets button to save. I really don't think you did this, but I thought saving new presets was worth trying at least once :) .

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Post by LittleFenris »

Wow, you aren't going to use Flash for an animation project? I'm really suprised! Are you using the Pro version? There are a lot of limitations in the normal AS version.

From the short while I've been working w/ AS its a GREAT program for doing similar animation style to what you do, but w/ the addition of the bones for morphing objects, plus point by point animation, unlike Flash. You have a lot of the same type features like switch layers instead of different frames of a graphic symbol for switching between mouth positions and hand shapes and such. Not to mention the 3D camera for easier camera moves and zooms.

I'm sure if you take a good couple days to play around and read the manual you'll see AS is actually a pretty powerful tool, its just not setup like most other programs which makes it intimidating to learn at first...and a bit annoying honestly.

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Thanks myles - that explains a lot - i will be playing around a bit more this morning - i am becoming a bit more familiar with the way AS works now - I am bringing in 300dpi PNG images with alpha and they, of course, are well beyond the NTSC output - which is fine as I have AS set to view outside the output window also.
I need to find out (through testing) if I should scale in AS to fit the output window or, is there a way to export to quicktime that will show all? I think i know the answer to that and i just may need the pro version so i can set the output window to it's largest.
I ask because we are bringing in high res quicktimes into After Effects and doing zooms and camera moves there. So we want to keep the animations as big as possible.

Anyway - sorry I may be getting off topic.

Thanks for the support - I'll post back anything that may be helpful.

:)
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Post by rylleman »

You'll have to change the output resolution in AS, and since you are going to do postscales in AEX you would need an resolution larger than 1K so I think you'll have to update to the pro-version.

(There are a bug when you change the resolution and have bitmap-images in the scene... when you change resolution everything looks normal, the images are rescaled so they have the same relationship to the scene area as before but if you open the properties for those layers, wham, they change their size to fit their real dimensions! Just so you know.)
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Thanks rylleman!
You've all been very helpful - appreciated...

Starting to have fun now :)
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Just to recap my issue - the basic version does not allow an output larger than 768 x768 and 3000 frames.
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