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see http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/keyframe-selectability/ for a similar request.

Hi and welcome.

I suspect that if you're doing "4000 frames auto-generated in between," (sounds like me), then you're probably trying one of the techniques I wrote/asked about some months ago,
i.e mixing and mangling parameters from different formulas?

If this is so, as you rightly suggest, you find something along the way  that you like but something is not right when you come to save it - even if it's only the colours. There are some ways around this; for example, make sure you do a save of the colours and you can usually load them in on top of the M3i file that creates the wrong colours. This only works sometimes though.

It gets very convoluted, so, to save typing, I can only point you to the rather lengthy ramble I did to try to understand this -
http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/how-to-create-%27unique%27-fractal-art-with-m3d-%28or-how-not-to%29/msg33594/#msg33594 (ignore the beginning part)...

...and, better still,  its contributed update with newer knowledge - to offer some assistance - if indeed you are using thi technique.
http://www.fractalforums.com/mandelbulb-3d/the-interpolations-in-mandelbulb3d/msg40603/#msg40603

...if you haven't already seen them.

regards
kam

Hi,

glad to be of some use.

That method is certainly not easy on helping beginners to understand.
'Bodge' away. Be careful in there; you might lose a limb - or your mind.

Kam