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Exporting Animation to an Image
 Before export an Animation, it must be opened in 2D&3D Animator.
To export a Animation
- Click Export Animation to Image from the File menu.
- The Export dialog box appears.
- Type a file name in the File Name box. Note, if you select an existing file name, that file will be overwritten.
- Select the image format from the Save as type list. It can be BMP, GIF, AVI, ICO, PNG or JPEG image format.
- Click Ok to continue export.
- The Export to the "XXXX" file dialog box appears.
- Specify the Number of Frames of animation, which will be exported.
- Image Size and Resample Process.
- For the GIF image you can specify transparent color, which will be displayed as the Web Page background.
- If the Publish to FTP server check box is checked, 2D&3D Animator starts the FTP publishing process after the export is completed.
- Click Next to continue the export.
- Click Finish to save the image.
Optimizing size of GIF image
The GIF format uses technique known as LZW Compression to reduce the size of the images. The compression searches an image for recurring patterns, replacing each recurring pattern with a special code that takes up less space than the uncompressed pattern. The more recurring patterns are found, the smaller the resulting file. For instance, an image that is all white compresses very well, because it consists of essentially one pattern.
The export dialog guides you through the process of GIF file size optimization. If you select Custom Optimization, you will be given a series of wizard pages to respond to. As you finish with each wizard page, click the Next button to move to the next page. You may move forward or backward at any point in the process by clicking the Back and Next buttons at the bottom of the pages.
Custom Optimization
In the Number of Colors box, indicate how many colors you want available in the GIF file. The fewer the colors in an image, the better it will compress, but, as colors are taken away, the image quality tends to degrade. The goal with palette reduction is to find a balance between effective compression and image quality.
Palette Type
Click Browser Palette to use the Browser Palette, which provides a complete 256 color spectrum (equal quantities of red, green, and blue), regardless of whether they are used in the image.
Click Optimized to use the first 256 colors of image to create the palette. The option produces the best color, but is slower than the Browser Palette.
Click Adaptive to use an Adaptive Palette, which contains most used colors of the image.
Optimize Frames
Click to select the Shrink Frames to Smallest Rectangle check box to generate smallest frame, containing only the pixels that have changed.
Multiple frames may share the same static image elements or pixels. Because these elements or pixels don’t change from frame to frame, they are unnecessary for the animation. Click to select the Remove Identical Pixels check box to make the identical pixels as transparent.
Click to select the Remove Identical Frames check box to remove frames that are exact duplicates of the previous frames.
The Color Difference Rate is used to define difference between pixels in two compared frames. Two pixels are considered as identical if their color values have difference less than Color Difference Rate.
High value of Color Difference Rate:Low value of Color Difference Rate:Frame #2Frame #1Result of the high value of Color Difference Rate
Frame #1 
Frame #2  
Optimizing size of AVI movie
During playback, the video quality depends on the selected video codec, video compression and quality setting. When you click the Finish button in the Export dialog box, you will be asked to select a video codec, which will be used for record and playback. Experiment with each video compression and quality setting to obtain a satisfactory recording. The trade off of having better quality is bigger video file size.
Optimizing size of JPEG image
JPEG file format offers compression with almost no losses at ratios up to 20 to 1. Move the Quality Factor slider in the Export dialog box to set the image quality and file size. Lower quality reduces file size but will result in less detail in exported image.
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