I am new to this program and need some assistance.  I am using Carrara 5 Pro, and making an animated logo. I am having problems saving and exporting it.  I tried an animated .gif with no success(rendered fine, but could not export).  Could someone tell me the proper procedure for rendering and exporting the animation for use.  Thank you.

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Hello cypher389, Simply rendering and saving the .gif will work. Carrara cannot open animated .gif files once they have been saved. In fact for all animations, you can simply render and save in the format of your choice. The only time you need to Export an animation is when using VectorStyle - it's a different animal that "normal" renders. Mark

Thanks, the one I did last night automatically saved to the scratch disk.  Is that going to make a difference?  I'd attatch it, but it exceeds the file limit (229k).

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cypher389, you should always do your final movie render at full resolution with no or low compression. On the mac in quicktime that would be animation compression. On windows it would be AVI with the least amount of compression. The best method of all is it render frames as PICTs, BMPs, or TIFFs and use your video software to make the movie. That way if anything crashes, you just pick up at frame XXX and move right along - nothing lost. I haven't tried single frames in C5, but i've done it in a lot of other apps. Use quicktime pro or your video editor to save it in a compressed format. quicktime pro is only $29.95 and it exports to pretty much everything. That way you always have the pristine original, and you can repurpose it for web, CD, DVD, or video. Renders take a long time, so it best to render at full res/single frames and save compression for later. Scott