User Guide

Animation and Video 367
9 On the keyboard, press the arrow keys to move the portfolio image.
10 Repeat steps 6 and 7 for as many frames as you want to add.
11 In the last frame, deselect the layer.
12 Click the Play button on the Frame Stacks palette.
The portfolio image moves across the screen.
Repeating Actions
You can repeat actions to create an animated cycle. Take, for example, a blinking eye.
For this type of action, draw the cycle once, and repeat it as many times as needed.
To create a clean cycle, the beginning and ending images must be the same. For
example, in an animation of a blinking eye, the eye would be open at the beginning
and the end. This way, when the end of one cycle is “hooked up” to the beginning of
the next, the action continues smoothly.
Scrolling a background is another example of a cycled action. Commonly, a subject
remains in one place while the background slides by.
Modifying a Movie
Frames can be added to, or deleted from, a movie. You can also erase the contents of a
frame while leaving the frame in the movie. These changes cannot be undone, so it’s
best that you create your animation in segments and combine them when you are
finished.
Adding Frames and Movies to a Movie
You can add frames at any time to your movie. Frames can be added at the end or
beginning of a movie or between any frame in the stack. You can also repeat the last
frame at the end of the stack.
You can combine movies by inserting the contents of one movie into another. You can
insert only a Corel Painter movie, not a QuickTime or AVI movie or numbered files.
You need to convert a QuickTime or AVI movie to a Corel Painter frame stack before
you insert it into another Corel Painter movie.