Animation AVI Export

Hi

I have used Xara for many, many years, but I have never had any cause to use the animation features. Now I am trying to produce a simple animation for a presentation, where a line travels along a route across a map background (bitmap) - 3-4 frames.

GIF export works fine but the limitations of GIF are visible in the end result.

So I tried AVI export to product a video. All my attempts end with an error like:


Failed to tween object "g2555"
Blend error: It's not possible to have nested tween names
Between frames "N\A' and "Frame 26".


Frame 26 is my first frame and I have no idea want Frame N\A refers to.

I am using Xara Photo & Graphic Designer+ 23.1.0.66918 SL x64

Any experience or thoughts about this?

Thanks

Charlie

Charlie, far cleaner to avoid AVI altogether.

Read https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...s-Line-Drawing with Egg's demo - https://www.parkeston.com/tg/.

Acorn

gif export does not use tween; avi does, as I recall the way xara does that is flash based

all I can say is you have not set it up correctly; I don't use xara for this and the manual is not very helpful, I know; hopefully some expert will help out....

Edit - looks like they have :)

Acorn

Thanks - that looks very interesting. Unfortunately my end product needs to be a PP slide dominated with a large bitmap (relief map) with a simple line animation. The gif export is fast, simple and gives want I need - just a little lacking in colour depth. Given my time constrains (I need 12 of these plus the rest of the presentation) if will do the job OK.

I soon at I saw the the video export used AVI I had a bad feeling that this would be one of the neglected corners of Xara where it is better not to venture!

All the best

Charlie

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Originally Posted by Acorn

Charlie, far cleaner to avoid AVI altogether.

Read https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...s-Line-Drawing with Egg's demo - https://www.parkeston.com/tg/.

Acorn

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Charlie, if it is PP then use timed steps in Animations. Not used PP for a time so you'll have to dig around.

Here is a 5-min mashup: Attachment 133696

Acorn

Yes - I could just export high quality images of each "frame" and make them a PP slide each. Lots of extra slides to manage but I might do this if I have the time.

Thanks again

Charlie

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Originally Posted by Acorn

Charlie, if it is PP then use timed steps in Animations. Not used PP for a time so you'll have to dig around.

Here is a 5-min mashup: Attachment 133696

Acorn

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Originally Posted by CharlieJeit

Yes - I could just export high quality images of each "frame" and make them a PP slide each. Lots of extra slides to manage but I might do this if I have the time.
Thanks again Charlie

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No, the upload is a single animated slide! I used a Pen Tool and then selected each segment and applied a 2-second Replay animation. All Segments follow in sequence but you can adjust timings with other triggers.

Acorn

Acorn

Yes - that looks very useful - hadn't come across that feature in PP before. Definitely will have a go at this - many thanks.

BTW that is a very impressive pub crawl - but I think I will restrict my maps routes to roads and tracks!

Better stop now before we get too off topic!

Many thanks

Charlie

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Originally Posted by Acorn

No, the upload is a single animated slide! I used a Pen Tool and then selected each segment and applied a 2-second Replay animation. All Segments follow in sequence but you can adjust timings with other triggers.

Acorn

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Hi Charlie. I've had the error before. I'm not exactly sure anymore, but it had to do with named objects. I beleive I had objects grouped and the inside objects had names - something like that. I think I've accidently gave an object 2 names also and that caused problems.

Nancy