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Hey guys. I wanted to know if there were any avi programs that would work with Sterlingware? I have some really nice fractals and have seen some amazing fractals by others who still use the program that would look great with deep zoom animation. I am still learning the ins and outs of fractal programs and the how to on creating animations with them and would really like to do the Sterling. I know that Apophysis works well with Flam3, virtualdub, apophymator (which I had fun playing with, but didn't put the animation up), and a few other rendering/animation programs,  but is there a way to use those same programs for other fractal generators. I was thinking maybe if the Sterling fractals were imported into another program that maybe that would work, but again, I am still learning and have no idea how to even begin going about doing so. The extent of my "importing" knowledge is taking a fractal that I really like and importing it into Gimp. Thank you in advance to all who can shine some light on this. I am not sure if the developer of Sterling is still around or have they moved on to other ventures, but a newer version with animation capabilities would be a welcoming addition (hint hint) with some additional color options because some of the colors are so bright that the detail in the fractal is lost and even with adjusting through the color controls they don't always come out so nice which leads to me scrapping the whole fractal after spending sometimes hours finding "the one" :'(.