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TVPaint 7
(Sold under the Mirage name)
TVP Animation 8
(TVPaint 8)
TVP Animation 8 Pro
(TVPaint 8)
TVP Animation 9
(TVPaint 9)
TVP Animation 9 Pro
(TVPaint 9)
           
Retail price 895 € 475 € 950 € 475 € 950 €
           
Release Date 2003 May. 28th 2007 May. 28th 2007 July. 7th 2008 July. 7th 2008
           
What are the most important new features in TVP Animation 9 ?
           
Layers Blending Modes          
Color
Erase
Behind
Shade
Light
Colorize
Tint
Saturate2
Value
Add
Sub
Multiply
Screen
Replace
Substitute
Difference
Divide
Overlay
Dodge (Light2)
Burn (Shade2)
Hard Light
Soft Light
Grain Extract
Grain Merge
Subtract
Darken Only
Lighten Only
           
Sound          
Multiple Audio Tracks
File History
Undo/Redo
           
Rooms          
Number of Rooms 1 1 1 1 4
Different Layouts for each Room
Different Color Schemes for each Room
Different Keyboard Shorcuts for each Room
Copy a Room into another Room
           
TimeLine Notes          
Display TimeLine Notes over the project
Position and Size TimeLine Notes over the project
Draw annotations (Blue/Red/Black)
Manage annotations (Draw/Tint/Erase/Move/Split/...)
Display vertical lines every X images
Undo/Redo
           
Panels Bin          
Drag'n Drop nearly all panels of the program inside/outside the Panels Bin
Left/Right Panels Bin
Panels Bin collapse option
Time Line collapse option
Collapse of all the panels in the program
Large/Small Time Line window
Horizontal/Vertical Time Line window
           
Drawing Recorder          
The Drawing Recorder Stroke only
(Demo Recorder)
Stroke only
(Demo Recorder)

(Everything)

(Everything)
           
Hardware / Software TVPaint 7
(Sold under the Mirage name)
TVP Animation 8
(TVPaint 8)
TVP Animation 8 Pro
(TVPaint 8)
TVP Animation 9
(TVPaint 9)
TVP Animation 9 Pro
(TVPaint 9)
           
Operating System          
Windows XP
Windows Vista (compatible)
OS X 10.4 not on intel-based mac
OS X 10.5 not on intel-based mac (compatible) (compatible)
Boot Camp
           
Computer          
Mac PPC
Mac Intel
PC
Tablet PC
           
Other Supported Hardware          
Pegs holes Recognition and alignment
Scanner with sheet feed
Mac ICA
PC Twain
Canon Camera PC only PC only PC only PC only
Wacom Tablets
           
Supported Video Cards          
Leitch VelocityQ
Leitch Velocity HD in progress in progress
DPS par pvr hollywood
Matrox Digisuite Digisuite LE Digisuite DTV
Newtek VTNT VT[2] VT[3]
DV compatible ohci 1394 (Out)
WDM (In)
Bluefish 444
           
Main Panels          
XSheet tab
Project tab
Timeline tab
Animator panel
Palette panel
Tools panel
Custom panels
Script panel (Element) (George) (George)
Sketch panel
FX-Stack
Info Bar
Tool Bin panel 1.0 Can be added by user Can be added by user Can be added by user Can be added by user
Tool Bin panel 2.0
Quit panel (to save all unsaved projects)
New Look Interface
Import/Export Interface Look: Color Scheme
           
Layers          
Image layers
Animation layers
XSheet layers
           
Animation tools TVPaint 7
(Sold under the Mirage name)
TVP Animation 8
(TVPaint 8)
TVP Animation 8 Pro
(TVPaint 8)
TVP Animation 9
(TVPaint 9)
TVP Animation 9 Pro
(TVPaint 9)
           
Instances          
Instance Engine
Instance with the Cells Number display
Add Exposure
Remove Exposure
Remove all Exposures
Goto Prev Instance
Goto Next Instance
Goto Instance Head
Goto Instance Tail
Break Instance
Recompute Exposure
Faux-Fixe
Auto Break Instance
Overlay other instances with Ctrl key pressed
           
Light Table          
Light Table : Mode Instance/Image/Bookmark
Light Table with gradient mode
Light Table with color mode
Light Table Bin
Light Table working with rotative drawing disk
Light Table optimised for Hires Projects
           
Layer          
Bookmarks Management
Add Bookmarks During Play
Layer Shaker
Layers Color Boxes
Layers Color Boxes Edition
Left / Right Align Layers
Lock Layer Position
           
View          
Safe Area
Field Charts
Animator Fields
Animation Disc
Real Time Rotative Drawing Disk
Enhanced Anti-Aliased Zoom (25% 33% 50% 75%) (partially)
Fit automatically the project image to the project window (Max 100%)
Flip Anim
Flip Anim Custom (Right-click)
Invert the project preview Horizontally and/or Vertically
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