Hello. I am trying to animate an object that I created in Carrara 6 Pro by just using the Spin behavior so that it just spins for 2 seconds on the Z axis. However, I want it to spin 1 complete time within the 2 seconds and when I try to change the "Cycles per Second" area to .5 (or anything else for that matter) it always reverts back to 1.00 making the animation to fast. Anyone come across this problem before? Anyone have any solutions? Also was wondering if I rendered this with an Alpha Channel if it would be able to be placed in front of an illustrated background from Photoshop. I am assuming I will have to use another program to bring both of them together. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I didn't encounter that yet. see if it helps to drop frame rate from default to half of default. the alpha channel thing should work in cs3 as video frames, or in previous versions as a single frame.

Spin. When you have typed in the 0.5 (or -0.5) for the spin speed, cick Enter on the keyboard.

That works ok for me (C603, Windows)

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Make sure you are in the first frame of your animation as well :)

Thanks! That, strangely enough, worked. I say strangely because, while I am on a Mac, I pressed "Return" and it did not work. However, when I pressed "Enter" it did work. I guess I figured they both did the same thing. Now to my other situation. I realize that I can set the background up to show my illustrated background and I appreciate that advice. However, I think my client wants to place my animation into something on there end for some reason. They love to make things more difficult for me. I don't know how they plan on doing this, but I think it's to save money on their end. I am definitely going to try and talk them into letting me do it, but until then, is it possible to extract the background from the animation. Thanks again! You guys are great.

You could have your animation being played onto a "blackboard" (Insert>Blackboard) Is this a potential solution?

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