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 700...

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 goo...

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

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.

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. QUES...

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. QUES...

Jonbo,
Good stuff...THX. After getting rid of the original Follow Path layer and starting over with your latest instructions, I've got my first animated character walking along a path
Cheers,
Bob G.

The points are not connected. How do I do that?

Jonbo,
NOTE: The Image layers are sub-layers within the Skeleton layer. My indentures didn't take when I posted my last reply.

Jonbo, I created a simple path on a separate layer, named "Follow Path" below, and selected the path points. When I selected the layer and that I want to have follow the path, "Skeleton" below, and selected the Follow Path tool, the points are not visible on that layer. The layer...

Jonbo Got it. Thx. I understand but something is still missing. On a separate layer intended for the follow path, I added 5 points using the Add Point tool, selected them, set the Timeline to frame 0, and then tried to use the Follow Path tool to activate the points. I tried clicking on each indvidu...

Jonbo, Following your lead with the demo, I've tried to find the Follow Path add tool. I don't see set of icons that I saw on your demo from which you started up the Follow Path add tool on my screen. I'm using Anime Pro 8. I've poked around looking for something that would launch the menu like the ...

Jonbo,
Many thanks for your answer Your YouTube video demo was outstanding and I'm sure that, when I try it, you will have solved my problem. That will allow me to go on to the next problem so I expect that I'll be back.
Thanks again.
Bob G.

Jonbo, I'm also trying import image components to assemble, bone, and animate a character. So far so good through a preliminary version of that. I've got some animation going and I now want to use the "Follow Path" tool to get some movement but its not behaving anything like Tutorial 4.1 i...