5 essential tips BEFORE animating with OpenToonz

so you've downloaded and installed the latest version of open tunes you've run the program and can't wait to start animating do you just pick up your stylus and start no not yet follow these five simple tips before you draw and you'll have a much smoother experience at number five update all of your drivers and this is the number one reason why open tunes appears unstable for some users they're using out of date drivers and don't rely on windows updating them for you go straight to your manufacturer's driver site and download and install the latest drivers from there and some sites even offer service to check your system to see if it has the latest drivers and that can be worth trying too but as a minimum update your graphics card and drawing tablet driver number four on windows enable the high performance option so just press the windows key and type graphic settings select the application and you'll see this click browse browse to your open source program then click the options button and in that dialog choose hide performance then just click save and that's it when you next start open tunes it'll use more features of your graphics card and you may also have a high performance or similar setting in your graphics card settings panel and i've made a separate video about that you can follow a link in the description number three store your openstreams projects in your documents by default when you start a new scene it'll be added to the sandbox project and instead you should always create a new project for your scenes to keep your assets isolated from other projects but these projects will be stored in the open tune stuff folder which contains all of your settings for each release so as i recommend installing nicely builds from time to time these will update this folder so my recommendation is to not store your projects here as well and it's really easy to change so if you run open tunes and from the file menu choose preferences and in the general tab tick the box near the bottom to add my documents open tunes to your project locations then after restarting open tunes you can choose to create your new projects in this new open tunes folder in your documents and while you're in the preferences dialog if you've used open tunes before now might be the time to have a quick glance through some of the options and set up your preferred default whether it's your preferred theme colour or whether the function editor opens in the new window or one of the many other options number two set up keyboard shortcuts and this might be more of an ongoing tip but while you're thinking of preferences you might want to start setting up a few keyboard shortcuts to match shortcuts that you'd set up in earlier versions of open tunes or that you use in other software and you get to that from the file configure shortcuts command just browse to each command and add the shortcut or you can filter using the search box so two of my favorites to add are to assign the h key to flipping the viewer horizontally and to assign v to flip the viewer vertically and number one so finally i'd recommend setting up ffmpeg and this is to give you more formats to render out your animation to including mp4 and gif and also once set up this allows you to import mp3 audio files i've got a separate video showing the full process of setting up ffmpeg linked in the description but if you've already got ffmpeg downloaded from your previous version of open tunes you just need to go to your preferences go to the import export section and then browse to the directory that has the three ffmpeg executables in it and then restart open tunes so there's my top five tips to follow before you start using open tunes and doing these will mean that you have a much smoother time using the program and there's less chance of having a crash and now you set up the basics of the program this video will show you the most essential next steps to start animating with open tunes so do check that out i want to say a quick thanks to all my patreons for supporting the channel especially my new teapot patreon robert rice thank you for joining my tea service so i'll see you robert and everyone else next time for another open tunes tutorial and that's a guarantee

Channel: Darren T

Views: 9,217

Keywords: animation, opentoonz, 2DAnimation

Id: WDj6qLqA0Xs

Length: 4min 48sec (288 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 15 2022