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      Problems with Animation Clips

Product: Lightwave Flyer Aura

Platforms: Amiga Intel Alpha MIPS Macintosh

Problem: On attempt to play a FlyerClip rendered by LightWave, the last frame flashes; animation clip created in LightWave or Aura is reported as "Not a Video Clip" on attempt to play, not seen as a video clip by the Flyer software.

These problems will occur most often simply due to the animation not being an even number of frames long. With LightWave generated clips, if the number of frames is an odd number, then only half a color frame is being displayed as the last frame, and this will confuse the system and cause a flash on the last frame. The number of frames in a rendered animation must be evenly divisible by two. Many people get this error by changing the Start Frame for a rendering to 0. As an example, if the high frame number in the animation is 300, and the user sets the Start Frame for the render at 0, instead of LightWave's default 1, then the rendered anim will have 301 frames, with the final frame being the first half of a colorframe.

Aura 2 will render a Flyerclip with an odd number of frames, but then sees the resulting file as "unknown type", and the Flyer software will report the file as not being a video clip. If creating an animation in Aura, be sure the project length is an even number of frames. If you are using Aura to assemble a sequence of images, make sure the number of images in the sequence is even. If you have an odd number of frames in the directory, remove a frame to make it an even number, then assemble them in Aura.