User Guide

Animation and Video432
You’ll get better results if the movie
you insert is designed for the same
frame rate as the current movie.
You can insert a movie before or after a
specific frame, at the start of a movie,
or at the end of a movie.
To insert a movie:
1 Choose Movie menu > Insert
Movie.
2 In the Insert Movie dialog box,
choose where to insert the movie
and click OK.
3 In the Select Movie dialog box,
locate the movie you want to
insert, and click Open.
Rotoscoping
Rotoscoping is the process of painting
on a movie, applying effects to a
movie, or compositing a portion of the
images from one movie with the
images of another. This is often done
to put the action of a person filmed in
one place on a background filmed in
another. You can also use rotoscoping
to remove an element from a video
clip. As an example, we made a short
movie of an owl on a roost. After
capturing the video digitally, we
imported it into Corel Painter and
removed the roost frame by frame,
using the masking tools.
At the top is a frame of a movie showing an owl
perched on a roost. The bottom left frame shows
the owl without the roost. The bottom right
frame shows the mask used to hide the roost.
Rotoscoping is also useful for adding a
background to an animation. The
process is the same whether you’re
working with digitized video or
painted animation cells.
Applying Effects to a Single
Frame
You can paint on, or apply effects to
any frame in a movie. For information
about applying effects, refer to “Basics
of Applying Effects” on page 259.
To paint on or apply an effect to a
single frame:
1 Using the Frame Stacks palette, go
to the frame you want to work in.
To go to a frame, you can click on
the thumbnail of the frame or click
the Step Forward button to
advance to the frame. You can also
choose
Movie menu > Go to
Frame
and enter the number of the
frame to which you want to go.
2 When the frame appears in the
image window, you can use any of
the Natural-Media tools to modify
the image. Anything you can do in
a single image, you can do in a
frame. Paint with a brush, add
layers, or apply an effect to a
selection or to the entire image.
Paint on the image in the image
window—not on the thumbnail in
the Frame Stacks palette.