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Paul: Whoa, that's expensive! Just for fun I calculated your numbers for my favourite digital copy shop in Berlin, and the complete booklet comes out at 17.- €, in good paper quality. Even with a luxourious binding it wouldn't exceed 25.- €. But I guess that printing in USA is twice as expensive as ...

One more information needed: do you have video files loaded into TVP? If so, linked or imported?

- how big is your project? PAL? HDTV? 4K Film?
- do you run other programs beside TVP?
- how much free disk space do you have?

I run TVP on my Mac and am completely satisfied with its speed, although my machines are quite old (see footer).

OK, I fought two more days with this file (and finally won!). To TVPs credit I must say that it never crashed, and it also didn't do harm to the files even when I had to stop it in mid-operation. The setup was like this: Startup disk free 2,95 GB Temp disk free 35,5 GB File size at beginning 8 GB I ...

I'll try.

Hm, this was already set to a volume with lots of free space...

Here are the numbers:
Saved file size 8 GB.
RAM 1,5 GB
Free space on startup volume 4 GB
Free space on dedicated temp volume 35 GB

The error message explicitly said "start volume".

I haven't run into this before with TVP, amazingly, but now it happened: during a big clean-up operation (merging all layers at once) TVP informed me after one hour and 83% done that the startup volume was full. I had to kill the program and restart my Mac to be able to continue. (The temp files wer...

Quite good news: I've got a lot of invitations to festivals for Paraplü from people who saw it in Hamburg. Unfortunately I couldn't make it there - I missed my own premiere. But the best thing is that it was picked up by a distributor already! (I tell the name when the contracts are signed.) This me...

I could think of several tricks. However, it depends on which style you want to achieve. http://www.tvpaint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2402&st=0&sk=t&sd=a describes some tricks to be done with colour on different layers. I think in your case it may be best to first create a layer ...

I just invert the selection. It's one of the selection options in the panel. Since I use this a lot, I've assigned a shorcut like in Photoshop to it. So the complete workflow would be like this: - duplicate layer or frame - make selection of accidentially painted parts - erase that part on one layer...

Happens to me as well. In this case I would either duplicate the layer or copy just the one frame to a new layer. Then I draw a selection around what I want to keep, invert it, and erase everything around.

I like the street scene! I like the overall darkness and the density - something I hope to achieve in my stuff as well.

Hm, that's a rare request, because most of us tend to be finished with all timing issues before we start colouring, and the occasional final correction will only be some few frames which isn't too much work even in 3 layers. Sometimes I flatten the 3 layers to one - but keep the originals - and adju...

Nick: I use the crop tool for this - can place the marquee wherever I want, at any odd coordinate. It creates a duplicated, truncated file. I used this to animate a very small portion on a verly large project, just to speed up things a lot. The finished animation in the small cropped duplicate proje...

hoobastar: You definitely need some reading material about standard animation procedures, or you will end up doing a lot of unneccessary work. Basic concepts like walk cycles and breaking up a character are, well, the basics of our job, besides drawing. I've heard the new book by Tony White, "H...