Animation Recording Options

The Animation Recording Options window provides options that determine the size and frames per second for the animation being produced.

Animation Size

A number of recording sizes ranging from 160x120 to 1600x1200 are available. Keep in mind while setting this option that many computers will not be able to smoothly play videos above 640x480. Also, larger sizes result in larger files.

If you would like to produce an anti-aliased animation, you can save your animation larger than the desired result and use video editing software to scale the animation to the appropriate size. Most video editing software will scale using interpolation, which results in super-sampled anti-aliasing.

Note that you will not be able to select a recording size larger than your current screen resolution.

Frames per Second

You may choose the number of frames per second that should be recorded. Note that this is the number of images per second not the number of animation key-frames per second. Animations tend to look very smooth at around 30 frames per second. 15 frames per second is recommended in order to reduce file size.