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11. Once this is done you are ready to do the morphing. Again check to make sure everything is ok. Go to layer 2 while still in bezier edit mode and you should see the before pic with its curves. Next go to layer 3 and you should see the after image and its associated curves. Layer 1 should still be white.

12. If everything is ok, go to Operation> timeline animation and select morph-fixed from the pop up menu. Choose the number of frames and frames per second. I chose 30 frames and 15 fps because it gives a short smooth morph, but what ever works for you is ok. Make sure the anchor warp boundary is checked, as this will use the anchor lines to stabilize the image.(Figure 7)
Fig 7

13. Almost done! Go to the paint action window and make sure its empty. If its not press erase again. Then check record (figure 7A). In the timeline animation pane, go to fixed % (Figure 7B )and move the slider to 0%. Then hit action. (figure 7 C)

14. Uncheck the record button and move the % slider to 100%. Option click this into the last cell of the paint action timeline figure 7D. This has been very confusing for me in the past and probably for others. The layers window is not where you want option click.

15. That’s it. To view the animation go back to the layers window and lick on layer 1 and push the animation button on the paint action window. This shows you what it looks like. To store it as a movie go to movie> start movie to file and name your movie. Then go to movie> generate frames >run PAS seq animation. When its done make sure you got to Movie> stop movie to file otherwise it won't save your move. you can view your movie in SA by going to Movie>load disk movie to canvas, then using the controls above the main window to view the movie or use the quick time player. Click here to see the animation.
16. There is a way to do this between 2 movie files instead of still files but it’s a big pain, because you can't really see where you are to define the curves. It supposed to be fixed in the next release. Also you will notice that the first frame of the animation is a little warped. This is a design problem not a real bug but John Dalton reports this will be fixed in the next version of SA.
Please send questions and comments to me, Mark Greenberg MD At drdude@drdude.net
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