8Bit Palettes

8Bit Palettes

When you save a new 8Bit (256 color) animation, MainActor VE will use a customized palette for the whole animation. That means that MainActor VE will not save a new palette once the source palette changes but tries to create an optimized palette for the new animation which will then be used for all frames.

We think this approach results in smoother animations, especially on platforms which write directly to the color space, like low level DOS, Amiga and MAC viewers.

The generation of the animation is, however, slower, as MainActor VE has to process all frames to generate the source palette.

It is possible to edit the palette prior to saving.