DrPhibes Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 I had created an action and placed a rotoscope to use as some movement reference. Saved my project, and when I came back and opened it a day later I found that the Rotoscope was not retained in my action file. This meant that my scale and translate settings (that I had not written down) were gone. This may have always been the case since I can't remember ever opening a rotoscope in an action window, but I was hoping that someone knew if this is an error or just the way it is. I did find that I could use Rodney's suggestion here to solve the issue, but it seems like a silly thing to not be able to hold the rotoscope settings. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhibes Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 OK, not sure what happened. This time when I reopened the file, the rotoscope was there! Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 25, 2018 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 25, 2018 Hooray for weirdness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 25, 2018 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 25, 2018 A quick test on my own... If the action is in a PRJ and i save the Project, the Action will retain its rotoscopes when i reopen the PRJ. An Action saved by itself seems not to retain rotoscopes unless it is loaded by a PRJ it was made in. So... if you need rotoscopes, use Actions in the context of a PRJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhibes Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 So in my further test, if the project is saved with the action window open, the rotoscope is saved. If the window gets closed, rotoscope goes away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 25, 2018 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 25, 2018 42 minutes ago, DrPhibes said: So in my further test, if the project is saved with the action window open, the rotoscope is saved. If the window gets closed, rotoscope goes away. i can't reproduce that. Open or closed, the rotoscope returns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhibes Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 So the rotoscope does not save for me the way you describe. 1 hour ago, robcat2075 said: A quick test on my own... If the action is in a PRJ and i save the Project, the Action will retain its rotoscopes when i reopen the PRJ. An Action saved by itself seems not to retain rotoscopes unless it is loaded by a PRJ it was made in. So... if you need rotoscopes, use Actions in the context of a PRJ. Also, as I tried to use the technique described in Rodney's post about decaling the rotoscope onto a plane, I discovered that the software crashes when ever I try to decal an image sequence. Bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 26, 2018 Hash Fellow Share Posted October 26, 2018 If you really need the animation to be in an Action, you can do it in a Chor and then save the Chor Action out as an Action. That ought to accommodate all your rotoscope needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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