Exporting animations from Pencil animation program

[higashi]

I tried to use Pencil in Intrepid, but it was very buggy. After my upgrade to jaunty, i was pleased to see that it was working perfectly fine.

I did a little test animation and everything was going well... that is, until i tried to export it.

First, i tried as .mov . That didn't work. The dialog box came up, i clicked ok, and then it closed. I got no file saved on my computer.

Next, i tried .swf , This time, it just closed. didnt save anything. it was just gone.

.mov and .swf seem to be the only options i have since i want to have sounds in my animations, so i wouldnt be able to save them as jpeg or anything.

Is there any way to fix this problem?

[Stochastic]

Both of these issues have been reported on both Launchpad.net and Pencil's sourceforge bug tracker:

SWF: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pencil/+bug/351880
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2722411&group_id=155770&atid=797133

MOV: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pencil/+bug/351868
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2722437&group_id=155770&atid=797133

It was because of these bugs that Pencil was not included into Ubuntu Studio's Graphics meta package. It's a shame because it's a quality program.

Theoretically, you could export the animation to a series of still images then put them back together with another program like stopmotion. Here's a thread that details some of those possible apps: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1054541 Though that's quite a bit of work to export your animation.

[higashi]

Thank you.
I hope pencil is fixed soon. It really is an amazing program

[kenagcaoili]

Hopefully this helps somebody.

Bug still exists.

Pencil 0.4.4b

Export as image sequence.

Import to OpenShot as image sequence.
Export to whatever you want.