After having finished animating the characters general movements to the sound clip, and added the colour, I came across another problem. As the animation has to be on a video layer that is that shows 12 fps (frames per second), but being played at 25 fps for standard UK TV viewing, there is a set way in which the frames from the video layer are played to allow for the fact that there will be an extra frame that needs to be filled at the end of each second. It does this automatically by making each frame repeat twice, except for the 2nd frame of each second, which will be repeated thrice. I understood this when making the animation, and it should (in theory) make no difference to how you make it. However, somewhere along the line there was an error in the way Photoshop adjusted the frame rate, and any new video layer I added ended up quickly becoming 1 frame out of time.
This was massively frustrating, as the sole reason I chose to make a 2D animation for my final piece was to be able to put highly exaggerated expressions on the characters and make a visually entertaining piece. This might still be possible to do (all on the same video layer, which is dangerous, as I cant afford to make any mistakes), but the amount of time spent trying to recover my original animation, and then trying to solve the frame rate issue, has left me behind in my other work, so I may have to leave the animation as it is for now. I hope this is not the case, and I will continue to work on it if I manage to complete my other projects earlier.
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