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                           WELCOME TO ELAN PERFORMER

                               Manual Supplement
                                  Version  1.01
                                   April 1989

This document will assist you with some more detailed information and cover

some additions to the program that are not mentioned in the ELAN PERFORMER

user's manual.  We suggest that you browse through this addendum now, and

then look through it again as you are reading the manual.

First of all, be sure to send in the Owner Registration card!  This is the

only way we can keep you informed about new updates as well as new products.

We would also like to hear from you when you've had a chance to work with the

program . . . and let us know what you'd like to see in future programs.


                                  CHAPTER 2

Pages 26-27:

Just a reminder that all of the number buttons can be changed up or down in

increments of one by clicking above or below them.


Page 34:

If you have an Amiga with the 1 Megabyte chip ram upgrade (Fat Agnus), you

may not need Display Protection on, as there should be enough display memory

for most applications.  If you only have the 1 Meg of RAM, all of it Chip

RAM, Display Protect ON will automatically be disabled.



Pages 38-39:

A new button has been added to the SAVE window entitled "check size". If you

wish to find out the the amount of memory an image, animation or environment

will take up when saved to disk, toggle the button to on. It is best to leave

the button off until needed, as it may take a few moments to calculate.


Page 40:

The manual states that ANIM3 files cannot be saved with changes in the color

map between frames.  Actually, if you create animations with color changes,

ELAN PERFORMER will save and read them.  Be aware that most other software

will not read such files, so if you want to export them, make sure that all

the color maps in your animation frames are the same.

                                   CHAPTER 3

Pages 47-49:

If you would like to run through your images very quickly in the AUTO or

MANUAL SEQUENCE modes, make sure that the HOLD times for each key are set to

Zero.  This feature is useful if you are stringing together a series of

images on separate keys to form a single animation.


Page 56:

When you interrupt the loading of an animation, an incomplete animation will

be left on the key.  To clear and reload this animation, press the "Tilde"

key (~), then press the key that holds the incomplete animation.


                                   CHAPTER 4

Pages 57-59:

When running the FrameCutter, RIFFsplicer or ANIMsplicer from the Workbench,

the window will disappear once the program starts running.  You will be able

to watch the memory indicator change on the Workbench menu bar as frames are

loaded and saved.  You will know that the program is finished with its

operation when the indicator returns to the normal memory size.









                                   CHAPTER 5

Pages 72-73:

Whenever you chain environments to other disks, make sure that the parent

environment calls a nested environment that is on a currently mounted

(inserted) disk.  This nested environment may call images and environments

from another disk, as long as the first key loaded from that environment (the

one highlighted by the red triangle when it was saved) is not another

environment.  In other words, the nested environment must be available when

it is called, and it must load an image before going on to another

environment.  If an environment is not there when called, you will be

returned to the control screen.

                                   CHAPTER 6

Page 88-90:

The manual states that, from the CLI, the format for setting loop time for an

animation is as follows:  -lt##,##,##   This is incorrect, the actual format

uses the COLON (:) character to separate minutes, seconds and frames, as

follows:  -lt00:05:20  This would display for 5 seconds and 20 frames.











                                 HELPFUL HINTS

MultiTasking:

To gain access to the Workbench while ELAN PERFORMER is running, you can pull

down the control screen by moving the mouse pointer to the top of the screen,

holding the left button and dragging down.  you can also flip to and from the

Workbench by holding down the "Left Amiga" key and pressing the N and M keys.











Deluxe Paint III:

When Dpaint III saves out an animation file, it is always saved as a "Loop

ANIM".  To make a smooth transition from key to key during a sequence in ELAN

PERFORMER, the extra 2 frames at the end of the loop ANIM can be deleted.

Here is how to do this:

1)  Assign the ANIM to a key.
2)  Set Reverse: ON in the EDITOR window for that key.
3)  Press ESC to load the animation.
4)  Step through the animation with the arrow keys.
5)  If there are two frames at the end that are duplicates of the first two
    frames, you can delete them using the BACKSPACE key.
6)  Press ESC twice to return to the Control Screen.
7)  Click in the File Box and type the name you wish to use for the new file.
8)  Click on the SAVE button.
9)  Select either the ANIM3 or ANIM5 button.
10) Choose NO when the prompt asks you if you want to save a loop anim.









Have Fun!



    - Elan Design