Playing the movie

Congratulations! You have just created a zoom movie. Let s have a look at it.

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Move the time slider slowly back to frame 1.

Note that the fractal window immediately recalculates as soon as you move the slider to show how 

the zoom is interpolated from frame 1 to frame 100. Dragging the time slider back and forth is a 

convenient way of previewing the animation quickly or precisely.

To view a real time preview of the animation, 

click the Play button on the animation bar. The 

  animation will keep looping until you click 

somewhere or hit a key.

The level of detail of the preview depends on the speed 

of your computer   as long as you are using the 

Guessing 

drawing method

. To make the preview faster, 

Most commands on the 

animation bar

you can reduce the size of the fractal window on the 

are also available on the Animation 

Image tab of the 

Fractal Properties tool window

.

menu, with 

keyboard shortcuts

.

Any fractal in Ultra Fractal is potentially an animation. As 

you have seen, you can turn any still fractal into an 

The preview is always played with a 

animation by enabling Animate mode and changing the 

fixed frame rate. To change the preview 

fractal in some way.

frame rate, click Options on the Options 

menu to open the 

Options dialog

, and 

Look at the time slider. Two blue dots have appeared, 

click the Fractal tab. The Animation 

one at frame 1, and one at frame 100. If you set the 

preview speed setting is in the 

slider to exactly frame 1 or 100, the corresponding dot 

Advanced calculation options area.

turns into a yellow marker to show that it is at the 

current frame.

See also 

Calculation details

.

When you make changes to a fractal while Animate mode 

is on, Ultra Fractal records animation keys at the 

current frame, and at frame 1 if there are no animation 

keys yet. The blue dots show at which frames the 

animation keys are located. When you click on a dot, the  

time slider jumps to the frame at which the key was 

Animation keys

recorded.

Next: 

Experimenting with Animate mode

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