Storing Animation Settings and QuickTime

[stykzman]

One of the things I've added to 1.0 (which the prerelease testers will get in the next few days) is the ability to store and retrieve the animation settings for a saved Stykz doc. So if you last exported an animation in Animated GIF at 3/100ths of a second delay, the next time you go to export it the settings will be as you left them.

The question I have though has to do with QuickTime export... Stykz should default (currently) to showing the same fps in the export dialog as you have set in the Controller palette. So my question is... if you last exported an animation at 15fps, and then reopened it, made some changes, played it back at 20fps and then went to export it again, should the export dialog default to 15fps (your last export setting) or 20fps (the current setting in the Controller palette)?

[EmPeeKay]

I think it should default back to what you last exported it at. That way, it's consistant with how the export for gifs work.

[scykei]

I thought differently, however. most people will preview how they want their animation to be before exporting. I'd expect them not to even check that box before exporting.

Another thing: by default, Stykz exports frames at 10 fps if I'm not mistaken. If they were to change that number during preview, and export without looking at the export dialogue... well, they might not get what they wanted, I think.

I strongly feel that the same should happen during GIF export. If we can't get the same framerate as the one we previewed, at least get it closest to it...

Well, that's probably just my opinion :\

[GuitarMangler]

If it's possible maybe stykz could walk them through the exporting process the first time they do it.

Edit: Or a little information tab next to each of the options explaining what they do.

[stykzman]

I thought differently, however. most people will preview how they want their animation to be before exporting. I'd expect them not to even check that box before exporting.

Another thing: by default, Stykz exports frames at 10 fps if I'm not mistaken. If they were to change that number during preview, and export without looking at the export dialogue... well, they might not get what they wanted, I think.

I strongly feel that the same should happen during GIF export. If we can't get the same framerate as the one we previewed, at least get it closest to it...

Well, that's probably just my opinion :\

Makes sense, but we can't (at the moment) do the same thing for GIF - the frame rate doesn't get used when setting the frame delay; that's set by the user. So for GIF we're automatically reusing the frame delay value they had set previously, but for QT (where we can match frame rates), I think you're right - it should probably match the current rate (not the stored one).

[DarkFlame]

Just follow my philosophy in programming:
If you can't decide, PUT IT IN THE SETTINGS!
:P jk. But I don't really care, both work well, but I'd choose to make it stay the same to what you have in Stykz.