Sound
 

All right, I’m a beginner and I do read through the manual before asking something.
I add a wave file to an animation. The sound was added to the animation sound graphed was present on the time line on lightwave and sound was present when scrolling the time line. So I made an AVI file fully expecting to hear the sound. Nothing
What did I do wrong now?

Unfortunately; Lightwave is just an animation package, it only does animation (which it does very well). You can bring soundfiles into it allowing you to animate characters talking synchronised to a voice trak or allowing you to animate characters dancing etc. however, you will need another software package that will allow you to put it all together - sound and a rendered animation.

Thank you, actually I’ve got Premier Pro 2 coming to me in the mail it should be here next week. I’ll do it there. I guess there’s a good reason for why it won’t work in lightwave.

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Premere pro 2 rocks! I just got the whole pro studio pack, and the combanation of Premere pro, After Effects pro, and Lightwave allow you do do... well... anything! That is, as long as your computer has the horsepower to handle it all! Hi-def is a mjor cpu hog!

Best setting
 

Since I've got you do you know the best setting for producting an AVI file not DV but AVI Microsoft. There are several to chose from and I've been trying them all. I wanted to send something to a nephew sending in DV AVI the file was to big. My internet provider would't let me send any thing over 20Mb. I know Div X is no good it just make a mess or there better setting for that and I haven't found them.

Aside from Lightwave, I'm a video editor as well. Since you're getting Premier you could export as a Quick Time. Most folks have QT. Or, I'd suggest Windows Media Format. Good renders and small file sizes with both.

ANY AVI file is going to be HUGE, since AVI isn't really a compressed file format.

Also, don't let Lightwave compress the rendered animation. Output from LW as an Image Sequence. Then import the image sequence into Premier and render as a QT or WMV format.

Abobe
 

I'm not finding the WMV format.

In lightwave I do create tga 24 images in upper frame then import into Adobe Pre 2

So far the AVI files are the smallest compared to the DV AVI
I've made some QT and the files are huge.

I'm new to both Lightwave and Adobe but I do have fun playing.

I don't use Premier Pro (I use Avid Xpress Pro HD), but I did use Premier 6 for a short while. The export for WMV wasn't in the export options (in 6 anyway). It has it's own option in one of the menus somewhere.

If you're exporting to NTSC resolution (720x480 or 486) the file will be huge in any format. Make sure to mess with the resolutions and bitrates to get a manageable file size. Both will have to be small.

You might need to download the wmv plugin from microsoft.
You can also use windows media encoder or windows movie maker to make WMVs.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.mspx