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Paul Russam

Ok, I'm going to produce my first tutorial!! but as I'm crap at them you'll have to wait a bit whilst I sort it in my own head and then try to unjumble my thought on paper but here are the basic steps that I'll flesh out and illustrate in the tutorial.

Export the scenes(animation) as TIFF's at twice the resolution you require, so if your animation is going to be 320x240 you should export at 640x480.
Sort the massive folder of TIFF's into individual folders for each sequence ie SEQ-001=Scene1-Scene2, SEQ-002=Scene2-Scene3 etc. (I have a script for this)
In Adobe Premiere Elements (or Pro) set up the project for your 320x240 animation.
Import each sequence in to Premiere.
Scale each sequence to match finished output.
Apply the 'Reduce flicker' setting to each sequence - This if the killer setting that magically improves the finished result.
Drag the individual sequences on to the time line
Add titles at beginning / as an overlay / at the end.
Export the animation in what ever format you want (I use cinepack)
Feel smug (Optional)

Advantages:
High Quality output.
If the computer/shetchup crashes during stage 1 then you've only lost one sequence not the whole animation.
If there is a problem in the model/animation path etc. then you can fix and re-export just that sequence.
You can speedup/slowdown/change colour/add effects etc. to the finished product in Premiere.

Disadvantages:
Massive size of the exported TIFF's, 100Gb is easily achievable when each image is ~10Mb.
Laborious drawn out process to get the finished product.

OK, that's all for now, I'll try and do my best to get the tutorial done asap in a readable fashion!

tinanne

Paul, this is awesome! Thank you so much. I had considered exporting as .png (also a lossless format, but much smaller then .tiff) but after i saw 4500 panels, I thought "this can't be right"! Man, that is a stinkin lot of work! I should have charged dbl. I guess some lessons are expensive. Anyway..... I really like this idea. Especially the part about making changes. That is huge.

This project I'm working on as 360d views. So some how I have to work that in. I played with it a little in PS, ugh the thought of place those backgrounds in 4500 panels.....

I also like the organization tip. That will really help alot.

I'm looking forward to more of your nuggets of info!! I also want to say thank you to Kris, as he has been helping me in the background also! Thank you both sooo much!

MORE, MORE, MORE....