2 simple questions (i hope)

[sadrobot]

first one i know is simple, how do i save an animation? same as pic?

second when i try to set an end frame and hit animate and let it go through all of it and then hit play it will still play longer than i want. i am trying to make an animation that will loop and i cant have it go much longer than when i want it too

[Modron]

the default amount of frames is 250. alt A or ‘animate’ will play/record
that number of frames unless otherwise specified. you can change the frames in the render buttons.
<edit> btw i believe this is all in the online manual

[sadrobot]

how do i save? so i can watch my animation outside of blender

[Gabio]

you press anim in the render buttons (F10)

[sadrobot]

i know how to animate but how do i save it to make a file out of it. like a .mpg or .avi. or whatever i dont even know what it uses. so i have a movie not a .blend file

[Delta]

cut 'n paste from the other thread:

@Delta

to the right of the [anim] is a panel called [format]

there’s a popup selector in that panel which is probably set to jpeg. click on that selector and click on [avi raw]

then, click [anim] again

go to the tmp folder and your animation will be saved into a single .avi file

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however, this avi will be really large.

if you have divx, you can directly encode into it in blender by selecting [avi codec] instead of [avi raw] and then set the codec there

i hope this helps

Regards,
~Delta