User Guide

CHAPTER 15
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Using Vector Paint (PB only)
• The values for Re-timer are percentages of the original time required to draw the stroke.
The default value is 100%. A higher value causes the drawing time to increase, so that a
setting of 200% uses twice the time to draw the selected strokes. A lower value draws the
selected strokes more quickly.
To change playback time with the Re-timer:
Using the Vector Paint Selection tool ( ), click or drag to select the strokes.
1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) to open the contextual menu, and
choose Re-timer.
2 In the Set Value dialog box, type a value for Relative Duration (%), and click OK.
Note: You cannot use the Undo command to reverse the Re-timer after you apply it. However,
you can apply the Re-timer again, using the inverse of the value you typed previously to revert
to the original value. For example, if you changed the Re-timer value to 200% and then
wanted to go back to the earlier setting, choose Re-timer again and type a value of 50%.
Painting with Shift-Paint Records
Ordinarily, when you create strokes with Vector Paint, those strokes are associated with the
position of the Time Marker when you draw those strokes. After you draw a stroke, you
can draw more strokes at the same time setting or at different time settings. The results
you see when you preview or render the composition depend on your Playback Mode
setting (see “Choosing a Playback mode” on page 430).
The Shift-Paint Records options change the way that strokes associate with time settings.
This is called QuickPaint mode. One of the advantages of this feature is that you can create
fast continuous recordings of a sequence of strokes without redraw delays after each one.
To work using QuickPaint mode, you must do two things:
• First, choose the Shift-Paint Records option you want to apply before you paint the
strokes that will use this option. These options are available only on the Shift-Paint
Records submenu of the Vector Paint contextual menu.
Note: You cannot apply a Shift-Paint Records option to strokes you have already created.
• Second, hold down Shift as you paint. Otherwise, the Shift-Paint Records options will
not apply to those strokes.
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