User Guide

Animation and Video426
sizes consistent with this aspect
ratio.
3 Click the Movie radio button
under Picture Type and enter the
number of frames you want to
create.
Remember, you will be able to add
and delete frames at any time.
4 Click OK. A dialog prompts you to
name your new movie.
5 Type a name for the movie and
click Save.
6 In the New Frame Stack dialog
box, choose a number of onion
skin layers.
The number of onion skin layers
determines the number of frames
displayed in the Frame Stacks
palette. For more information
about onion skinning, refer to
“Understanding Onion Skinning”
on page 427.
7 Choose one of the following
storage types:
• 8-bit gray — 256 levels of gray
• 8-bit color system palette —
256 colors
• 15-bit color with 1-bit alpha —
32,768 colors and a layer for a
channel
• 24-bit color with 8-bit alpha —
16.7 million colors and a layer
for an anti-aliased channel
8 Click OK.
When the movie opens, the Frame
Stacks palette appears and the
image window displays the first
frame of the movie.
Note
•
The storage type lets you specify the
color depth for saving each frame. This
applies to the saved frame stack—not to
working in the current frame. For example,
choosing 256 colors as the storage type still
allows you to work with a selection and
24-bit tools in the image window for the
current frame. As soon as you change
frames, however, the image is saved in the
256 color format and the selection is lost. If
you want to maintain selections in saved
frames, you’ll need to choose the 15-bit or
24-bit storage type. These storage types
allow you to take advantage of compositing
options that require a selection layer.
Opening a Movie
Quite often, you’ll start by opening a
movie created in another program—
like a captured video segment. You’ll
also open an existing movie if you
worked on a frame stack earlier and
now want to return to it.
For efficiency, don’t bring in more
video frames than you’re going to
work on. For example, if you have a
two minute video clip and you want to
paint on the first 10 seconds, don’t
open the entire clip in Corel Painter.
You’re better off separating the first 10
seconds in your editing application
and bringing in just those frames.
After finishing that clip in Corel
Painter, you can join it to the other
part in your editing application.
You can also import a movie that has
been saved as a series of numbered
files. For more information, refer to
“Working with Numbered Files” on
page 441.
To open a QuickTime or AVI movie
or a Corel Painter frame stack:
1 Choose File menu > Open.