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Once you've finished Rotoscoping and using your Brushes to either follow along with what you already have, or using any of the Effects to create your masterpiece, you're now ready to save it as a Movie, or if you want to you can even save your Movie as individual pictures. Now you might want to know why you do one over the other. Let's say you're doing something for a movie, like a short film, and you're bringing your footage into Painter piece by piece, in little movie snippets like this to apply Special Effects to. Well, professionals usually don't bring in full movies into a special effects application like After Effects or Combustion. They will, instead, bring in individual Frames, and the reason for that is because typically when you save a movie you have an embedded file, one file containing all the Frames, and in particular when you do 3D animation, or you do anything like I have here, if you have a very long piece of footage and your computer crashes while you're saving it as a QuickTime Movie, well you pretty much have to start all over again because once again you have one piece of footage instead of Frames. So, what people like to do is like to save individual Frames and then put it back together in another application. So what we can do is go to File, choose Save As, and then with the Save Movie dialog box you can save any current Frame that you have showing as a single image, or you can save everything as a QuickTime movie, or you can save the movie as numbered files. For example, this would be New Movie 1, New Movie 2, New Movie 3, and so on. The other application won't recognize that as a sequence and then bring it in as one piece of footage anyway. But once again if you are coming from a 3D background and you're doing some animation and special effects inside Painter it's a good idea to once again bring it in as a movie and then save it out as the individual Frames if you're going to go to another application for more post-processing work. So I can save as Frames. Let me go ahead and show you what that looks like. I'm going to go to my Desktop and create a brand new Folder and I'll just call it Frames for now so you can see what it looks like, and I'll create that, and I'll give this a name. I'll call it Movie and Save. Now, it says the number of frames do not contain enough digits, or starts with too large a number to save the entire Frame Stack. So what I can do is go back and choose Save As and save as Numbered Files, and I'll call this 01, and I'm also going to save it to a different format, like JPEG, and now I'll append the file extension as well, and save it now. Now, we're given the JPEG encoding quality dialog box and I'll just say good for now and click OK, and then we'll go check it by Folder. Hopefully if all went well we should have different pictures in here Ð and there we go. So, just in case you run into that little problem, two things you can do to alleviate that problem is to give it a number for the very first Frame, so just name your movie Movie01 like I did and Painter will create the rest, and also you might want to save it as a different format, like JPEG, or TIFF, or Targa, or anything like that. So, that is how you can save your movie in Frames. To save it as a regular full movie just choose Save As QuickTime Movie, click OK, and then I'll make another Folder in this one called QT Movie, for QuickTime Movie, and I'll call it Movie2, so we can see the difference, and I will make sure that the format is QuickTime Movies, and I'll save it. I can change the Compression Type if I want to, the Frames Per Second, the Quality, and if I like everything I have, hit OK, and once again I'll head over to my Desktop, go into that same Folder and go to the other one, and now we have a QuickTime Movie, and that's how you can get your movie out of Painter in Frames, and as a self-contained Movie File.