Quote - Regarding animations, I just found one (having a ball bouncing) but I wasn't able to follow it due to my limited language skills (I sometimes just did not understand what the voice did say).

It may be slightly off topic, but I know YouTube offers transcript and caption capabilities for its videos. Of course you have to find somebody who knows English and your language equally well and is willing to volunteer their time. The other part is getting in contact with the person who made the video. In my case, I'd be happy to upload non-English transcripts/captions for my vids. (The only thing is, I do more Wings3D stuff than Carrara in regards to video tutorials.)

Quote - well,..."big" is a good point :)
my first animation (just a Vicky with nothing else moving a little) of 10 seconds (192 frames) has the sweet size of 135Mb in avi.-format
:)
I guess the next thing to learn is: "How to reduce file size"  :)

I know there was an answer to this one. But I find that Xvid + VirtualDub works great. (Uses little space and doesn't cost a thing.) The problem is if you're on a Mac, then that option is ruled out. (At least Virtual Dub is.) The best way is to save an image sequence to a folder, and then pick the first in the sequence and let the software do its thing to string together a movie.

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