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thanks ur quite right, its also on the inside cover, sorry for being a dumbass

thankyou, i have emailed them, can only hope someone replies, pete

Hiya I have made a big mistake, I bought animation master in the uk, still got my box and original cd and manual but lost the cd cover which has my serial no on it, had to rebuild my machine, so now cant install, is it possible to get a new serial no, bit of a nightmare, if any of hash read this could you email me on pb@reptilezone.co.uk pete

after playing with images and video, i have made a img sequence through premier and loaded that this seems to work, though i still dont really understand what i was doing wrong with video

I apologise if i come across as stupid, but, followed directions but i dont see the video as a background its like its invisible, heres what i did, i made a new choreo, then clicked on shortcut to camera and added a new roto which is the video, in the timeline i then get a list of frames, but none of them are visible and if i click on a frame, and render to view or make a render the video isnt there. I would appreciate all your all help pete

thanks for all your help, let me explain what i want to do, i own a reptile shop so i have some footage of it and i want to have a t rex come through the door and also a shot of outside, whats the best way to use this and accomplish it

Hiya am a beginnner to this so please bear with me, i want to use a live video as a background, could you give me some advice to this using version 13 as it seems difficult to ad it and when using a rotoscope or layer it doesent seem to work. pete

yup the rotoscoping works well as well, is there a smooth way to move into one action to another, it seems to jump a bit from one to another,

thanks for your help on the first part of my question been playing with the path details and got it working so thanks very much, will let you know how i get on in relation to the other parts lol

I wondered if my description would baffle you lol, ok lets take a blank choreography, you then add a character, then add a path to be contrained to, then i add a walk, nice and simple so far andno problems the length of the scene represents the length of the walk, but lets say i have created an action like a wave, and add it in, what happens now is the scene, stretches, so i then move the timline of the wave so it only happens at the end of the scene, what seems to happy is the contraint to path is always the length of the scene even if i adjust the length of the walk using the timeline the character then slides the remainder once the walk timeline has ben completed. any ideas on why i dont seem to be able to just add a image onto a object or character, like they describe and show on the videos, moving it around. for instance a pic of a flower on a vase, dragging the pic of the flower onto the vase, then moving it around, i am using version 13, but it doesent seem to work the same way. sorry to be a pain, in lightwave i can created a extruded text object, simply by using modeller, and then typing the letters, does am have a similar function lol if not why not lol thanks for your help pete

hiya please dont take this as a moan, I am new to animation master and am trying to get some answers to queries i have, I am used to lightwave. After purchasing animation master i have found some queries which i just cant find the answers to. I am in the uk, I hope some friendly americans can give me some advice. First of alli have a problem in that having done the tutorials on the website several functions seem to be different, on dragging a image onto an object, which is on the tutorial, I am asked if i want a rotoscope or layer, this doesent appear on the tutorial, in this it just moves across and you can move it around, is there any way i can give a choreography a background image witout creating a 3d version, what i am trying to do is have a powerpoint presentation running with a character talking in the foreground in front of it. Can u also advise, why the timeline seems to move when u add movements, so for instant, if i have a character walking which takes 200 frames which is fixed to a path, then i add a movement which i move to the end of the walk the whole scene extends but the walk then goes wrong, and the period before the character is literally sliding, if i then move the timeline on the path and walk, again it goes wrong, this started with the tutorial where you create a action like a wave and put that onto the end of a walk, but it doesent seem to do that for me. I would appreciate all your help pete