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The Splines preferences.
Autosmooth: Automatically smooths out any newly created points or key frames on
the splines selected in this section. You can choose to automatically smooth animation
splines, B-Splines, polyline matte shapes, LUTs, paths, and meshes.
B-Spline Modifier Degree: This setting determines the degree to which the line
segments influence the resulting curvature when B-Splines are used in animation.
Cubic B-Splines determine a segment through two control points between the anchor
points, and Quadratic B-Splines determine a segment through one control point
between the anchor points.
B-Spline Polyline Degree: This setting is like the one above but applies to B-Splines
used for masks.
Tracker Path Points Visibility: This setting determines the visibility of the control points
on tracker paths. You can show them, hide them, or show them when your cursor
hovers over the path, which is the default behavior.
Tracker Path: The default tracker creates Bézier-style spline paths. Two other options in
this setting allow you to choose B-Spline or XY Spline paths.
Polyline Edit Mode on Done: This setting determines the state of the Polyline tool
after you complete the drawing of a polyline. It can either be set to modify the existing
control points on the spline or modify and add new control points to the spline.
Onion Skinning: The Onion Skinning settings determine the number of frames
displayed while rotoscoping, allowing you to preview and compare a range of frames.
You can also adjust if the preview frames only from the frame prior to the current frame,
after the current frames, or split between the two.
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