Cinemation Quick Reference

Cin.emation.•s Quick Reference To Com.m.only Asked Questions Memory We recommend allocating 4 megabytes of RAM to Cinemation. This guideline was set for standard 13 inch monitors displaying 256 colors. Cinemation may require additional memory when larger monitors or more colors (i.e. millions of colors) are being used. Remember, this is only a guideline - as with any mulinnedia application, some Cinemation movies may require more memory. Cinemation quits and displays the message" Application Unexpectedly Quit." Reason: A number of circumstances can cause your computer to run out of available RAM, including how much RAM your computer has as well as how much RAM is allocated to Cinemation. Cinemation uses more memory for some operations, such as acceleration, than others. Some external factors may affect Cinemation's memory requirements as well. We recommend allocating 4 megabytes of RAM to Cinemation; this guideline was set for 13 inch monitors using 256 colors. Larger monitors or monitors using 24-bit color (millions of colors) will require more memory. Solution: If you are using 24-bit color, change your monitor setting from 24-bit to 8-bit color. In the Finder, open your system's Control Panels. Open the monitor control panel and change the setting to 256 colors. Solution: Check how much memory Cinemation is using. You can do this by opening the About II Cinemation" dialog box under the Apple Menu. If Cinemation has less than 500K of free memory, you should increase Cinemation's memory allocation (see page 11 of the manual). Solution: Install more RAM. Your presentation doesn't play smoothly, even after acceleration. Reason: Cinemation may be running out of memory. You can check this in the "About II Cinemation dialog box under the Apple menu. Cinemation may require additional memory if you are using a monitor that's larger than 13" and/or millions of colors. Solution: Allocate more memory to Cinemation (see page 11 of the manual). "File Not Found" When you open the clip animation or tutorial files, Cinemation displays a "File Not Found" message and does not open the selected file. Reason: Some third party drives, particularly those formatted with Silverlining are not able to recognize Cinemation's folders. Solution: Drag Cinemation's tutorial files out of their folders onto your hard drive (to the first menu level). You will now be able to open the tutorial files. Drag the original folders to the trash and create new ones. lmportin2 PowerPoint / Persuasion Files You can't select text bullets on the slides you imported from PowerPoint and Persuasion. Reason: Cinemation impons Persuasion and PowerPoint files that have been exported to a …