1)Im doing an animation and i decided to make it in very small render pieces (1 or 2 sec). Is there a shareware or freeware program to put the pices together. 2)Is there a program that can change the direction of a movie? Lets say an arm moves from A to B, later you need the same movement but from B to A. Of course you can render it again, but that takes time, I would prefer not to render it again and instead take the old scene and ad it "end to start" to the animation. 3)I render in 30 frames without compression, which programms do you use to compress movies? Thanks for all replays.

if you mean you will render frame by frame and want to add all the frames, try quicktime. laurent

Hmm. If you are rendering in 1 to 2 second chunks, then it would probably be better to render as individual images. That would allow you to assemble them in Quicktime (current version is QT6 ) and choose what compression you wanted. It would also give you some safety, as in if something interrupts your render, you would have the individual frames already done safe, and could resume from the point of the last good frame render. As for assembling animated avi or mpegs; you might want to hop onto Usenet and look at the multimedia groups. Their faqs usually will list the freeware and shareware movie file assemblers that are used to rebuild movies that are posted for download. About all you would have to do is alter the name of the animation file so that the sections are numbered in the sequence you want to view them ( Posette jump001.avi,002.avi...like that), as most of the programs there look for those numerical tags to sequence things correctly. If you need more than that, such as the ability to add a sound track, then you're looking at more capable programs. The current cadillac is Adobe Premiere. It can do just about anything you need, and costs it. An alternative is the video editor suite by Magix. It does video import, editing, and soundtrack insertion, and it is pretty reasonable (around $50 US). A browse at the computer store's software rack should turn up others that are cheaper, and less capable.

Thanks for your answers, but there comes another question up. "Is it possilble to render every frame of an animation seperat on an automated basis?" Are the frame automatically numbered as 0001, 0002,...

Yes if you render an animation as picture files, they will be numbered 0001, 0002, 0003 and so on

Sorry, but I looked in the render settings and in the movie setting, but I can find no option to render, lets say all 60 frames automatically to pictures. What have I missed?

Okey I found it, I have to change sequence type! Thanks

I have Premiere for the complicated stuff, but I more often use VirtualDub (freeware) and JASC Animation Shop for the simpler tasks.

VirtualDub can piece together .avi files. Animation Shop can reverse a video. And both applications can compress a video using whatever codecs you have installed.

VirtualDub will assemble a video from image sequences, as long as they're in BMP or TGA format. Animation Shop, on the other hand, will work with almost every image format exportable from Poser.

If you want to convert your AVI videos to MPEG format, I highly recommend TMPGEnc, a freeware encoder.

Thanks for your tips. I also found "AviEdit", this shreware programm looks good, take a look.