OnionSkin ??

[WheelBrat]

Just wondering if there was such a thing as
Onion Skinning in Xara X. Or can anyone suggest
a way to accuarately line up objects in a sequence?

I was working on an idea and after I had the basics of the animation together I decided to
add another item to the animation. I tried to
line up the item from frame to frame by switching back and forth but all that did was make me dizzy! Or should I say dizzier?

TIA
Reji

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[WheelBrat]

Just wondering if there was such a thing as
Onion Skinning in Xara X. Or can anyone suggest
a way to accuarately line up objects in a sequence?

I was working on an idea and after I had the basics of the animation together I decided to
add another item to the animation. I tried to
line up the item from frame to frame by switching back and forth but all that did was make me dizzy! Or should I say dizzier?

TIA
Reji

The Wheel "Moving" Brat

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[jclements]

Hi Wheelbrat.

I believe I am running across a similar desire.

I was experimenting with some animations. I found that, after doing my first "draft", that the animations "footprint" was too large and that I wanted to scale-down the entire animation. Unless I am missing something, I couldn't find a way to select all ojbects in all frames and scale them down all at once so their relative positioning would remain in tact. I would think this would be a important capability for editing an animation.
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[Mickie]

If you open the Gif Animation Frame Gallery (looks like three frames of film), you'll see "eye" and "arrow" icons in the upper right. The "eye" lets you see all frames, the "arrow" lets you edit all frames.

Mickie

[jclements]

Thanks Mickie,

It should have been obvious to me.

John

[WheelBrat]

>If you open the Gif Animation Frame Gallery
>(looks like three frames of film), you'll
>see "eye" and "arrow" icons in the upper right.
>The "eye" lets you see all frames, the "arrow"
>lets you edit all frames.
>Mickie

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Mickie,
That's fine when you are starting your animation but when you have 35 frames of images to line up and edit it can become quite a mess of overlays!

What I wanted to be able to do is go back & edit each frame, lining up the objects that are there AFTER the image has been completed.

Is there any way to 'hide' the majority of frames so that you can minimize the number of frames?

Reji
The Wheel "Organized" Brat


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[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Wheelbrat.
I don't think there is a method to select onion skins across limited frame numbers. You can only se
I find the best method is to enclose the object within a no fill , desticnt colour line rectangle that will cover the complete area of your animation. As you add a layer do it via the"copy layer" command, then either a: adjust the image inside the rectangle or b: remove all but the rectangle and paste in the new image and adjust it to the required position.
With vaste amounts of frames onion skinning still has it's problems for aligning.
Another work around could be to produce a background grid that shows the required animation path which you can remove prior to completion and export (see attachment)
Egg