| This article is not supposed to be another bashing of | | | | and otherwise, on you compy. For CreaToons, I added |
| the latest Microsoft OS product. I just want to mention | | | | a program profile and disabled hardware acceleration. |
| a few specifics here to help out my friends in the | | | | This made a smile appear as my preview window |
| animation world. | | | | showed the little man waving instead of a black void. |
| Like a number of folks I have been disappointed and, | | | | Another program that has been around a while is Stop |
| at times, even frustrated by Windows Vista. | | | | Motion Animator. Obviously this program is used for |
| Compatibility issues, hardware and software anomalies | | | | capturing frames of stop motion animation. It's superb |
| and the never ending struggle between good and evil I | | | | for onion skinning the frames as you capture them |
| have termed THE CODEC WARS have cost me | | | | from you camera. The problem here was again not |
| hours of productivity that could have spent actually | | | | being able to see the preview in SMA of what was |
| creating the things that fulfilled the purpose of my most | | | | appearing on the camera LCD. After a number of |
| recent technology purchase. That said, being a person | | | | failed attempts, the solution, believe or not, actually |
| who has worked with, trained others on and repaired | | | | came from a Windows, um, feature? In Vista you can |
| reclaimed technology for the past 13 years, I | | | | right click on a program and select the |
| understand that the more and better the technology, | | | | "Properties" option. This gives you a tabbed |
| the more and more complex the problems that come | | | | dialogue. One of the tabs in Vista is |
| with it. So, whatever. | | | | "Compatibility". Checking the "Run this |
| I use a program named CreaToon, version 3.0 , to | | | | program in compatibility mode for:" box gives you |
| create simple Flash type animations. It is a very | | | | access to a list of OS options you can select. I |
| compact and intuitive program. I am thinking of teaching | | | | selected XP Service Pack 2 and, just for good |
| my 4 year old to use it. It's that simple. Bringing that | | | | measure, chose to run the program as adminstrator. |
| program to Vista was problematic for one major | | | | And, voila!! It worked. No hunt for a mystery codec |
| reason that I recall-the preview window was always | | | | needed. Incidently, running programs as administrator |
| black. I am not sure if it was a Microsoft | | | | has resolved a number of issues, with Motorola Phone |
| mismanagement of resources or an actual video | | | | Tools for example. May not be the best way, but it |
| problem, but after a series of codec updates that | | | | has worked for me. |
| accomplished nothing but wasting bandwidth, I solved | | | | So there is a sample of my personal, problem-solving |
| this problem through the video control panel itself. | | | | experiences with Vista. There are others. Adobe |
| I have an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE adapter on board | | | | Premiere and After Effects, for example. I do not |
| an HP Pavilion Slimline, dual Athlon 64. When you right | | | | guarantee that these suggestions will work for you on |
| click on the desktop, you can select the NVIDIA | | | | your particular computer, but who knows? Certainly |
| Control Panel option. This brings up numerous options | | | | not tech support. Give it a try. Don't be afraid of Vista. |
| to control how video elements are represented, 3d | | | | It's just and operating system, after all. |