User Manual

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11/05
Rotoscoping and paint tools
Nondestructive vector painting
• Paint nondestructively on layers to clean up footage, draw masks, clone elements, and
create animations.
Photoshop style brushes
• Work with brushes similar to the ones in Photoshop. Customize brushes to control size,
spacing, and angle, and save them for ongoing use.
Advanced Clone tool
• Remove unwanted distractions like dust and scratches, or replicate elements for a
desired eect, like lling a stadium with people. e Clone tool oers multiple presets
and onion skinning of the source frame.
Animated paint strokes
• Animate individual paint strokes over time to change their size, position, or shape and
to create write-on and write-o eects.
Eraser tool
• Control whether the Eraser tool removes paint strokes only or paint strokes plus the
underlying background footage.
Wacom tablet support
• Use Wacom tablets for more precise control when painting in Aer Eects.
Versatile Expressions and Behavior Presets
Keyframeless creation of animations
• Dene Expressions that link the behavior of one layer property to that of another on
any layer in the composition. Use new Behavior Presets to create Wiggles, Bounces,
Dris, Flashes, and more without setting keyframes.
Intuitive pick whip interface
• Link properties easily and intuitively with the pick whip interface.
Standard syntax
• Use standard JavaScript to modify Expressions, or create your own from scratch.
Menu of preset commands
• Reduce keystrokes and eliminate the need to memorize code with an extensive library
of functions and commands.