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Here it is! This is 10 yrs. of my life. (so THIS is why Pixar needs 300 people to make a film) Thank you robcat, fuchur & other AM forum gurus that helped me!

The FPS setting does seem to work when the sequence is brought into the Chor. as a Layer but if you select the sequence from the workspace it plays ok the first time but then if you hit the play button again it plays in hyper speed. No big deal as it seems to play well as a layer in the chor.

Have tried all the free video players I could find online and still can't find one that plays in "real time", but then used AMs ablility to read in sequences of numbered images and when you open the loaded image/sequence and hit the play button it plays great the first time but then will only play in hyper speed but it's still better than the results of all those players I tried before. I've had terrible luck trying to get all those free video players to read in image sequences as a single clip (even with a toggle button "read in as single clip" is activated) I know that the speed of your computer is most important but then why do all the Youtube videos play smoothly and nothing else does? Anyway, my point is that AM has really helped me out with this and now I just bring in the sequence into AM and re-output as an AVI for use in editing.

Ok I think I figgered it out. The model was being constrained to a chair with a translate to and orient like constraint for a brief time and I think that's what messed up the applaud action when trying to load it. But still haven't figured out why I can't Copy/Paste keyframes.

Yep. made sure all those were turned on. Would try to copy keyframe and paste it to same model at different frame-no effect. Don't know what I'm doing wrong. Also tried all 3 blending modes to no effect. I'll try to re-create the problem in a simple chor to post but never can get those to repeat the problem but if I do I'll post it. Thanks for all the responses guys.

Have tried all the keyframe filters - bone, limb and whole model - no effect. Also tried selecting the model in the chor list and all the subsequent bones with the Copy/Paste keyframe - no effect.

Thought I could just make an action with the character applauding and add it to him during a chor but no. Even tho the ONLY things moving in the action I made is his arms when I add it to him in the chor. he gets all "whacked out" - jumps to a different position and every joint in his body is twisted horribly. Also, how do you copy a figure's pose at a given frame? Have tried Copy Keyframe/Paste Keyframe - no effect!!!! Shouldn't this be a simple thing to do?? Any help appreciated.

Right clicking on an action (Actions folder) shows a "shrink length" function but does nothing or i just don't know how to use it. Any help appreciated.

Am updating from 7 to Windows 10 and wondering if I'm to expect any bumps with AM? Thought I'd ask here for a heads up. Any help appreciated.

I have tried many video players from the internet and even found that AM when importing jpgs animation can play clips by opening the image and hitting the "play" button in the playback bar at the bottom. (something that would have been handy to know yrs. ago.) But it plays slowly first time and then at hyper speed or unpredictable speed after 1st time. And the windows playback is just as unpredictable. My question is-Anyone know of a good player? Need'nt point out how much an animator needs to see stuff play in real (correct) time. Any help appreciated (sorry, no cash awards)

Works! Thanks robcat!!

Methinks it was mentioned that you can resume a netrender fail and it would remember where to resume? Not sure how to do that, do you need to have the Job save out first?

Yes thanks again robcat! Although I wasn't able to keyframe the Enforcement-it only wanted to be on or off at a given frame. But was able to get what I needed with a path constraint.

Had thought that an ease function was possible with all the constraints but I'm not finding it. Any help appreciated.

Thanks, I'll try the live answer time tomorrow.

Been using AM for more than just a few yrs. and still having trouble understanding action blending. Does the blending function mean how it blends with previous or next actions? I understand the transition to next action when you have a gap from one to another but doesn't have anything to do with the blending directly, right? Been trying to match the end of a saved action with a chor. action (just one lousy arm) and thought that just entering the rotation numbers from the position in the chor. into the last keyframe of the saved action would work but just whacked everything out. Been trying to duplicate the problem in a smaller chor. file but can't even get that to work. Hope this jibberish is making sense to someone. Is anyone gonna be at the Live answer time tomorrow?

Thanks as always robcat I'll try this out tonight and let you the results I'm sure it'll work. Thanks so much (don't know why I didn't think of it!)

ok what do you want me to send you? An AVI or the model?

Sorry robcat my mind is overrun with acronyms lately, PM?

Yes and it's much worse when viewing it in motion.

Never have to wait very long for something new to pop up. Animated decal on leg. Have tried AVI, JPG & TGA with and without alpha channel. No change. Granted the skin is flexing but have run out of ideas for fixing it myself. Any help greatly appreciated. Results are the same when rendered with Netrender.

Thanks for the help robcat I'll give that a try, much appreciated.

Does Netrender get angry when you have it running and minimize it or switch the monitor to watch cable? It was running fine on the desktop and I switched the monitor to cable and when I came back all the nodes were offline and the messengers disconnected. After much vulgarities I found there was AM running in the Task Manager, even after I had shut Netrender off and once I ended the task I was able to use Netrender again. So, that's my question-can you NOT minimize Netrender or switch your monitor to something else whilst it's running er whut????

Yes I've read about the light list in the manual but havent tried it yet. I'm a terrible lighting technician. Thanks.