What's up?? I'm new here.. DJ Toast..

[allaboutbreaks]

What up Kats??  DJ Toast Here!!  So this is the deal..  I've gotten into these fractals and want to make a few movies to broadcast during a show that I play on www.justin.tv/bpmsounds which occurs Fridays @ 7:30 PM EST.. 

I've got a few questions for u all..

I've gotten Ultra Fractal and it looks really good, especially when I set it for 10 million iterations and zoom like a madman..  Really though, I have no idea what I'm doing, but it looks cool..  I've recently tried to do a test render of a movie and this thing has already been running for 37 hours..  I get the feeling that this is probably normal..   I'm wanting to make a few cool movies that are around 18000 frames (10 minutes) that way I won't have to continually change clips..  Also, these movies I've been watching are really good but seem like some go too fast, has anyone had any luck going under 30fps without it looking choppy??  I don't know how slow we can go, I think TV is 60fps.. 
Also, anyone have good advice on animating the color cycling??  I'm not sure how to start it during the animation phase, do I just hit the forward or backward arrows and then render??

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated..

Peace..

[cKleinhuis]

hello and welcome to the forums

25 frames is just enough, 50 fps look more smooth, but a doubled amount of rendering time is required....

- color cycling is animated through the timeline i think, you need to set the keyframes for the palette offset in the animation window
- classic 2d fractals are trippy enough
- if you think about zoom movies, the zoom spot is very important, check here in the forums for postings by user pauldelbrot, he finds very small minibrots, those produce very interesting zoom sequences