User Guide

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2 In the Open dialog box, locate the
movie or frame stack.
When a file is selected, the dialog
shows the frame size, file size, and
the number of frames. If a preview
is available, it will show a
thumbnail of the first frame.
3 Click Open.
4 In the Open Frame Stack dialog
box, choose the number of onion
skin layers you want to appear in
the Frame Stacks palette.
The number you choose also
determines the number of
thumbnails visible in the Frame
Stacks palette. In most cases, you’ll
want four or five layers.
5 Click OK.
The Frame Stacks palette appears
and the image window displays the
first frame of the movie.
Notes
•
When you open a QuickTime or AVI
movie, Corel Painter makes a frame stack
copy of the movie. This ensures the original
won’t be changed.
•
Frame stacks are uncompressed, so you
will need an adequate amount of disk space
to create them. For example, a 1 MB
QuickTime or AVI movie can become a 20
MB frame stack.
Understanding Onion
Skinning
Traditional cartoon animators work
on an onion skin paper that allows
them to see a sequence of frames
through the transparent layers. They
then draw successive frames using the
previous frames for reference. Seeing
the several images superimposed helps
in incrementing the action evenly.
Corel Painter lets you work in two to
five layers of onion skin. You specify
the number of layers when you open a
frame stack. To change the number of
onion skin layers, you must close the
file and re-open it.
Onion skin view (Tracing Paper on). Each frame
in the frame stack represents one onion skin layer.
To use the onion skin feature:
• Choose Canvas menu > Tracing
Paper or press Command+T
(Mac OS) or press Ctrl+T
(Windows).
In the image window, the current
frame appears darkest. Each frame
moving away is progressively
fainter.
The Frame Stacks palette displays a
linear view of the onion skin layers.
Each thumbnail represents one onion
skin layer, and the thumbnail of the
current frame has a red triangle above
it.