CREATOON 3.0 Rendered Files...Where are they>

[beeman]

So I render an animation in Creatoon 3.0 (.avi file, per the instructions on cartoonlearning.com).  I get an .avi animation that looks o.k. but runs slow and looks "choppy".  I then try to re-render using various levels of AA and my machine takes 2-8 hors to complete (depending on the level of AA chosen) - but I cannot find the rendered .avi file.  I've done this 3 times and there is no rendered .avi file- and it is not overwriting the first one that I did that worked with no AA.  Is the file prefix or something wrong?  After the rendering, is there something you need to tell it to write the .avi file? 

Thanks

[CartoonLearning.com]

I never had the patience to increase the anti-aliasing and wait for a completed render  , so I can't help you.  Creatoon takes WAAAAAYYY TOOOOOOO LOOOOONG to render; especially for the final product quality.  I'm so glad I finally made the switch to Anime Studio (and no, I'm not a spokesman for them, I just can't believe the difference).  Best $30 or so I've spent in a long time.

The amount of your choppiness and aliasing could be due to the size of the imported artwork you used.  What size were the files?  You could try shrinking them and rendering a small portion again to see if that helps.

[Xemi_Creatoon]

Hi.
When CreaToon was created, it was intended to be more a tool for producing image sequences more than .avi movies, this is why if you compare them, the image rendering is much more flexible and powerful than the .avi rendering feature, which yields poor quality and is very slow working with long scenes or big amounts of bitmap data.
I strongly recommend you to do the rendering of your CreaToon's scenes as jpg, tga, or png sequences, and then load the sequences in a video-editing or 2d animation software for making the final movie.
Thanks for using CreaToon.
Xemi.
(CreaToon's company beta-tester and many other creatoonny things ^_^).

[Myles]

I strongly recommend you to do the rendering of your CreaToon's scenes as jpg, tga, or png sequences, and then load the sequences in a video-editing or 2d animation software for making the final movie.

Great advice from Xemi.

For readers who are looking for a free and easy way to convert their image sequence to a movie, while still having considerable control, you can use something like VirtualDub.

Combining the instructions from here and here, something like this should work:

• In VirtualDub, select File > Open video file... and select the first image.
• Once the sequence has loaded, use Video > Frame Rate to set the correct frame rate
• Go to the Video menu and select Compression....
• Configure your codec as required
• In the main VirtualDub window, go to the File menu and select Save as AVI

If the .AVI is an intermediate step (you're going to add sound, stitch animation sequences together, etc. - perhaps in Windows Movie Maker or Windows Live Movie Maker, perhaps in something commercial such as Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD, Vegas Movie Studio 9 or the Platinum edition), then I recommend using a lossless codec for your AVI - for preview it's not so demanding on your computer as the completely uncompressed codec. Personally I like the Lagarith lossless codec.

Regards, Myles.