User Guide

Animation and Video424
use the Natural-Media tools in Corel
Painter to create your own animations
with a traditional look. Onion
skinning allows you to see multiple
frames at the same time. In Corel
Painter, you can view up to five frames
at a time: the current frame and four
other frames adjacent to it. This will
help you determine where the next
frame of motion should be drawn. You
can play back your animation over
and over as you create it, to be sure
you have the correct flow of
movement.
Working with Video
Corel Painter offers certain ways of
working with video that QuickTime
or Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)
applications don’t. You can use any of
the Corel Painter brushes, textures,
and effects to modify a QuickTime or
AVI movie. You can paint directly into
video frames, you can clone video
using the Natural-Media tools, and
you can combine or composite portions
of one video clip with another.
When you open a QuickTime or AVI
movie, Corel Painter automatically
converts it to a frame stack. A frame
stack is a series of images, each equal
in size and resolution.
Corel Painter does not provide
features for working with audio.
When you’re finished with the movie
in Corel Painter, you can save it as a
QuickTime, AVI, or animated GIF
file. You can then open the
QuickTime or AVI movie in a video-
editing application, like Adobe®
Premiere®, where you can add sound
effects and other finishing touches.
The Frame Stacks Palette
In Corel Painter, digital video and
animation files are known as movies
or frame stacks. Whether you’re
working with imported video or
building a new animation, the tools
you’ll use are the same. They’re found
on the Frame Stacks palette and in the
Movie menu.
The number of frames displayed on the Frame
Stacks palette is determined by the number of
onion skin layers. A red triangle displays above
the current frame.
Icon Keyboard
shortcut
Comment
Rewind Home Returns to the first
frame in a stack
Step
Reverse
Page Down Moves back one
frame
Stop Command
+. (Mac
OS) or
Ctrl+.
(Windows)
Halts a frame
stack that’s play-
ing
Play Command
+Shift+P
(Mac OS)
or
Ctrl+Shift
+P (Win-
dows)
Plays the frame
stack