[Alexei Samokhin]

Hello.
I need to move my script , that i record in painter 6.1 to *.avi or something else to the movie. All ok when the script is without "creating new sanvas"... But all my scripts starting from "ctrl + n"..
Someone know what i need to do , to export script to movie ? (maybe erase something in script...)

[HawkOne]

As far as I know there is no way of directly converting a "recorded" painter drawing,
I believe you will need to use screencapture software capable of grabbing whatever happens on your screen (or window) at 12-24 frames per second.

There are many programs to choose from, I use the one that came with CorelDraw ... it's pretty decent, it cannot capture what happens offscreen though, like some others can (f.ex. on a long webpage.)

You should also be able to find some that does what you need for free, from some of the sites offering share-/freeware. i.e. Tucows, C-Net and a bunch of others.

[Ben Barker]

This is from the Painter Manual:

Converting a Scripted Session into a Movie

1. Record a session or load a pre-recorded session.

2. Open a new image at the size
you want the movie to be.

If the script was recorded to be resolution-independent, you can replay your session into a movie with different dimensions. For additional information, refer to �Replaying a Script at a New Resolution� on page 469.

If the script is not resolution-independent and the new image window is larger, the script plays back in the upper-left corner of the movie. If the new image is smaller than the script dimensions, only the upper left portion of the scripted session appears in the movie.

3.Click the menu icon on the Scripts title bar and choose Options.

The Script Options dialog appears.

4.Enable Save Frames on Playback. This is the option that directs Painter to create a movie on playback.

5. Choose how many tenths of a second you want between frames. The lower the number, the more frequently a frame is created and the more fluid the movie is. More frames, however, use more disk space.

6. Click OK

7. In the Script section, click Play. A dialog appears asking you to name the new frame stack the script will play into.

8. Enter a name, choose a destination folder, and click Save. The New Frame Stack dialog appears.

9. Select the number of layers of onion skin and the storage type you want, then click OK. Painter plays the script into frame stack.

Not all actions can be converted to a movie. For example, a script that contains a File menu> New command will not be converted properly.

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That last part means you will probably have to delete the file->new part of your script to get it to work.
Do this by going under the scripts rollout, clicking the menu icon on the Scripts title bar, and selecting open. Then select your script and hit "Open".
Then scroll down in your script until you find the "New" command. Highlight the command, go once again to the menu icon, and click "Cut". This will remove the command.

Once you have the frame stack with your script, going to File->Save As will let you save it as a .mov, .avi, sequence of files, etc.

Hope this helps.

[ February 16, 2002: Message edited by: Ben Barker ]