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I have every frame i have ever used for animation stored in my Iphoto
My computer has been slowing down due to lack of memory
Should I delete all of them or find another option
My dad is going to make me delete them anyways if I don't find a way to make the computer faster
What should I do?
Depends if you want to keep the photos: if they're trash, delete them, but if you want to keep them, only keep the ones that you like the most, and maybe get a flashdrive with a 8 gig storage space if you think it's worth it.
EDIT: It's every frame for animation, I didn't see that part. Trash it, except keep the final copy of the movie.
Just a note to say a computer doesn't slow down due to how many files are stored on the hard drive. Disk space and memory are different.
If the Hard drive is jammed full, it may stall a little or even crash, but this is unlikely with the size of modern drives.
Computer memory (RAM) is allocated and released as programs open and close, so unless you have lots of programs running this is again unlikely to be an issue. Powering off your PC completely wipes this memory.
You could always back up your files to a CD or DVD disk. a CD stores around 720mb of data, so unless you have a lot of frames one disk should be enough! another option is using a USB stick.
The advice to trash your still frames may not be a good idea. Your final animation will most likely be compressed by DIVX or quicktime. This stores the frames in lossy format . If in the future you want to remaster your work in the latest format you cannot use this as the quality be awfull. If you have the originals, you have a pure source of your work.
Last edited by martinprice2004 (November 17, 2009 (06:26am))
I always delete my frames once I exported the movie. I capture them, export them. Look at the exported movie and if that's good, than I'll delete the files. Unless I need to keep the files for further editing or adding effects.
It saves a lot of memory.
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