User Guide

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ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 5.0
User Guide
When you draw, the Info palette displays the abbreviation QP followed by a description of
the selected option: Current Frame, Next Frame (for To Sequential Frames), Realtime, or
Continuously. These options affect stroke start times in the following ways:
To Current Frame All strokes start at the current frame (the Time Marker position when
you draw the strokes). This is similar to ordinary painting mode except that Shift-Paint
Records has no redraw delays.
To Sequential Frames All stroke start times are offset by one frame. The next frame is
calculated according to the composition frame rate at the time of drawing.
For example, if the Time Marker is at 0:00 when you draw three strokes, then the start
point is 0:00 for the first stroke, 00:01 for the second stroke, and 00:02 for the third
stroke.
In Realtime Stroke start times are determined by how they are drawn. The strokes are
recorded and played back in real time even if you lift the brush while drawing. Strokes
play back exactly as they were recorded, including any time that elapsed (gaps)
between the creation of the strokes (provided that you continued to hold down Shift
during the time gap).
Continuously Stroke start times follow one another, without any gaps. When one stroke
is finished drawing, the next one begins immediately. Otherwise, this is similar to the In
Realtime option.
Setting Wiggle Control options
Vector Paint strokes are made up of many tiny points that create the stroke path. You
cannot isolate or individually adjust these individual points, but you can affect them using
Vector Paint features such as Smoothing and Wiggling. The wiggling of a stroke is created
by manipulating and displacing these points along the stroke path.
Set wiggle options in the Effect Controls window under Vector Paint. Click the arrow
beside Wiggle Control to display or hide the following options: Enable Wiggling,
Wiggles/sec, Displacement Variation, Pressure Variation, Pressure Detail, and Individual
Stroke Seeds. Click the arrows beside each of these to see or hide more options.
Enable Wiggling When Enable Wiggling is checked, all strokes on that layer are set to
wiggle using the Wiggle Control values set in the Effect Controls window (described
below).
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