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<a name="998942"> </a>Creating Animations and Video
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<a name="998944"> </a>Creating Animations
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<a name="1012631"> </a>Corel Painter offers several methods to create original animations:
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<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1012632"> </a>By cloning or tracing video. For more information, refer to <a href="23-Video9.html#1006237">"Cloning a Movie"</a>.</li>
<li class="SmartList1"><a name="1012637"> </a>By drawing each frame by hand</li>
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<a name="998948"> </a>Corel Painter has powerful features that simplify animation and help you get the best quality possible. You can use the Natural-Media tools in Corel Painter to create your own animations with a traditional look. Onion skinning allows you to see multiple frames at the same time. In Corel Painter, you can view up to five frames at a time: the current frame and four other frames adjacent to it. This will help you determine where the next frame of motion should be drawn. You can play back your animation over and over as you create it, to be sure you have the correct flow of movement.
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<a name="998956"> </a>Working with Video
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<a name="1010434"> </a>Corel Painter offers certain ways of working with video that QuickTime or Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) applications don't. You can use any of the Corel Painter brushes, textures, and effects to modify a QuickTime or AVI movie. You can paint directly into video frames, you can clone video using the Natural-Media tools, and you can combine or <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">composite</span> portions of one video clip with another.
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<a name="998967"> </a>When you open a QuickTime or AVI movie, Corel Painter automatically converts it to a <span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline">frame stack</span>. A frame stack is a series of images, each equal in size and resolution.
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<a name="998974"> </a>Corel Painter does not provide features for working with audio.
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<a name="1017117"> </a>When you're finished with the movie in Corel Painter, you can save it as a QuickTime, AVI, or animated GIF file. You can then open the QuickTime or AVI movie in a video-editing application, like Adobe« Premiere«, where you can add sound effects and other finishing touches.
