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* Real Time Paint

* Drawing Tools

* Animated Video Paint

* Project Controls

* Layering

* Character Generation

* Selection

* Image Toolkit

* Color

* Motion Path Manager

* KeyFramer

* Tracking

* Auto Paint

* Keying & Color Correction

* Effects

* Video Tools

* Format Support

* External Devices

* Tools

* Optimization

* Real-Time Paint on 16bit depth mask, up to 32bits per layer.

* Sub-pixel accuracy ensures smooth line drawing regardless of brush speed.

* Paint modes include Color, Erase, Merge, Light, Shade, Behind, Clone, Colorize, Tint, Smooth, Noise, Grain, Negative, Sharp, Emboss, Add, Sub, Multiply, Screen, Solarize, Saturate and UnSaturate.

* Paint on specific channels: Red, Green, Blue or Preserve Transparency (Alpha).

* Natural media simulation tool types including Pen, Pencil, Airbrush, Oilbrush and Wetbrush.

* Wide Variety of brush tools including Warp, Smears-and-Smudges (impressionist effect), etc...

* Wide array of settings for customizing each brush, and control over brush attributes such as aspect, angle, ratio, drying, profile, etc...

* Create static or animated brushes for painting or keyframing moving over sequence with Cut Brush tool using rectangle, polygons, freehand shapes and magic wand.

* Custom brush tool allows painting with cut out images or sequences, including animatable parameters such as Loop, Ping-pong, Pressure, Direction, Speed and Random.

* Resize, Rotate, Flip, Add border and Opacity mapping to a Custom brush directly without re-cutting it.

* Full array of painting shapes includes: dot, freehand line, line, circle/ellipse, rectangle/square and spline.

* Tool bins for all drawing tools - including custom brushes and animated brushes - allow for easy access to commonly used elements easing the workflow.

* Tool attributes connection to variables such as: speed, fade, random, direction, orientation, pressure, azimuth, altitude and finger wheel.

* Exclusive drying attribute to control tool's behavior when you pass over an existing stroke made with the same tool in a previous brush stroke.

* Filling tools:

1. Full array of filling shapes includes: freehand fill, polygon fill, circle/ellipse fill, rectangle/square fill, spline fill and flood fill.
2. Interactive flood fill (real time feedback), including opacity and smoothing controls.
3. Dithering Tool (unlimited number of gradients).
4. Direction-length vector allows control over gradiant length and direction.
5. Gradient alpha controls.
6. Fill a shape using the current Custom Brush.
7. Brush wrapping modes include Tile, Stretch and Wrap in both directions: Horizontally and Vertically.
8. Opacity Mapping lets you vary the transparency for filled shapes and Custom Brushes.

* User-defined Guides for positioning brushes and layers.

* Paper textures from any image may be applied to the canvas.

* Instant animation of an unlimited number of video layers.

* Pressure sensitive brushes, shapes and text creation for motion graphics.

* Real-Time Video playback (limited only by hardware).

* Direct project display and real-time paint directly live or off-line video.

* Video device engine allows frame capture for stop-motion animations and frame storage.

* Incremental proxy preview - frames are cached and saved; only modified frames are re-rendered.

* All elements are keyframable, including filters.

* KeyFrame controls including: Next Key, Previous Key, Create Key, Delete Key and Auto Create Key.

* Anti-Aliasing Controls.

* Multiple Undo and Redo (user configurable).

* User configurable Safe Area and Field Chart.

* Resolution-independent projects (over 8K x 8K).

* Support all standard frame rates, including NTSC drop frame.

* Full aspect control, including 16:9 and anamorphic (real WYSIWYG display).

* WAV file audio support with real-time scrubbing in the preview for lip sync and graphic tuning.

* Integrated images-based file browser with real-time preview playback helps searching large projects easily.

* Progressive and Interlaced scan support.

* Cut, Copy and Paste inter-project.

* Convert project resolutions, frame rates, fielding, aspect ratio and orientation from NTSC and PAL to HDTV and higher.

* Navigation window for enhanced zoom control.

* Dynamic (change frame rate, region and modes on the fly) and scalable (zoom and pan) preview playback directly in project window.

* Remote control panel allows timeline scrubbing and selected region playback.

* Timeline-based editing environment.

* Unlimited number of 32bit-layers (video or still), with real-time alpha channel compositing.

* Real-Time layering, element timing, and opacity adjustment.

* Independent Layer display/hide.

* Footages is loaded and available instantly (no wait time).

* Copy, Cut and Paste frames as well as insert, duplicate or reverse frames in layer for frame editing.

* Light table support for viewing previous or future frames in level of transparency.

* Drag-and-Drop layer and merge in any paint mode.

* Animated loop modes for layers: Once, Repeat, Ping-pong and Hold last frames.

* Adjust layer duration using time stretching (with or without interpolation), repeat modes (Loop, Ping-pong or Hold Last) and cut frames.

* Use layers as stencils for creating masks and animated masks.

* Multiple-layer selection for moving, stretching, merging or deleting.

* Timeline display with Field, Frame or Time-Code formats.

* Interactive timeline zoom.

* AutoFit timeline to project, selection, keys, layer, image or sound.

* Display button in the layer panel lets you preview a single layer instantly by hiding all other layers.

* Lock layers (to protect from unwanted operations).

* Full character generator & titling toolset.

* TrueType postscript font support.

* Control over Size, XScale, Italic, Spacing, Rotation, Opacity, Outline, Smooth, Border and Glow.

* Real time preview in the project window displays text at full size during creation and tweaking.

* Draw with Text tool using Word or Letter mode to apply text along a path.

* Powerful array of selection tools allow creation of static and animated masks.

* Full array of selection shapes for static mask including Rectangle/Square, Circle/Ellipse, Freehand Line, Spline and Magic Wand.

* Selection modes include Add, Sub and Replace.

* Selection tools lets you smooth, invert, copy to a Custom Brush or a layer the selected area.

* Create animated masks using an unlimited number of layers as a Stencil.

* Crop tool lets you select a portion of your image to cut out as a new project.

* Panning tool with Shift and Wrap mode for creating seamless image.

* Animatable lattice deformation tool for images

* Transform tool for fast resizing and picture-in-picture effect including the Fill mode to repeat the image horizontally and vertically across the work area.

* Wrapping tool to stretch and scale image or sequence at perspective by adjusting the position of the 4 corners or the vanishing points (horizon). Like the Transform tool, it includes also the Fill mode.

* Color sliders working in RGB and HSL with instant preview on each slider.

* 6 color pickers: Hue, Luminosity, Saturation, Red, Green and Blue.

* Create your own color with the color mixer, by mixing the current color with existing color. Mixer presets build-in. Store any user-defined mixers.

* Color bin lets you create indexed color palette from 1 to 1024 colors that can be used to export indexed files. Palette presets build-in. Store any user-defined palette.

* Import or compute palette based on image from any files format.

* Spread feature generates a continuous range of colors between 2 colors in the palette.

* Unified motion path control tool.

* Path can be modified on X, Y and/or Z axis for easy re-use between your projects.

* Average together up to 4 motion paths.

* Smooth motion path to remove shakes.

* Export motion path to various 3D packages

* Animate any Custom Brush or layer using the Keyframer on XYZ position, Heading Pitch Bank rotation, Width and Height stretch axis.

* Apply motion along linear or spline paths.

* Align-to-Path mode independently for Heading, Pitch and Bank.

* Floating point Motion Blur for smooth and accurate motion effect.

* Animated variables also include Motion Blur, Opacity and Noise.

* Real-Time preview in the project window when playing the sequence.

* Apply Keyframed Custom Brush or layer using any paint modes.

* Tracks can be based on RGBA, Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Saturation and Luminosity channels.

* Pixel track multiple layers, including a project's display.

* High-Precision Sub-pixel tracking (up to 1:64).

* Adaptive and simple tracking modes.

* Animate handwriting or painting over sequence.

* Record all pointer information such as Pressure, Azimuth, Altitude, Twist and Finger Wheel.

* Real-Time preview in the project window if animated motion by scrubbing the project.

* Apply modes (Normal, Last, Size and All).

* Luma and Color keying.

* Comprehensive color correction tools, including Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Saturation, LUT tables, Black & White converter and Histogram for level adjustment.

* Color region-independent color channel control , including Temperature, Magenta, Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Luminosity).

* Custom color-processing filter construction with the channels command line based Color Factory 2 tool.

* Extensive library of image processing plug-in effects such as Mosaic, Negative, Noise, Posterize, Solarize, Bevel, Bloom, Erode, Glow, Grain, Print look, Drop shadow, Speed.

* Wide Variety of Effects generators, including Particles, Lens Flare, Lighting, and Half-Tone.

* Wrapping Grid.

* Filters can be applied to layers or regions of layers over time using selection and stencil.

* Fade Transition.

* Extensive library of blur filters, including Center Blur (Camera Zoom/Pullout), Cubic Blur (variable edge treatment and softness), Directional Blur (Motion Blur), Gaussian Blur, Radial Blur (simulated camera bank).

* Background generator.

* Particles System.

* Complete 2D Lighting controls.

* Previews are scalable (full screen, zoom to the region of interest) during playback. New playback options include continuous loop, region selected and variable frame rates without any re-render!

* Export Projects to any formats (different resolution/framerate/etc) on the fly.

* Support for all standard industry formats including Microsoft AVI, DEEP, Apple QuickTime®, AutoDesk FLI and FLC, CompuServe GIF, BMP, ILBM, JPEG, PCX, PNG, SGI, SUN, TGA, TIFF.

* TWAIN for scanner.

* AVI DV file support.

* 5 different available alpha modes (Import and Export) such as Pre-Multiply and Non Pre-Multiply for better software connectivity.

* Enhanced Print utilities for printing stills or an animation storyboard from a sequence.

* Tablets support: all pressure sensitive tablets but including pressure, tilt, angle, pen altitude, azimuth, finger wheel and Twist and ToolsID from Wacom Intuos tablets.

* Twain devices support for Scanners and Digital Cameras.

* Capture frames directly with DirectShow devices.

* Sequence Conversion Tools (pulldown, de-interlace, etc...).

* Video Device Overlay mode added with Alpha channel support.

* New sizes for Proxy renders: Full, Half, Quarter.

* Capability for the video stream from RGBA video output devices to overlay the project.

* Fully Intel MMX SSE2 optimized (Plus multithreading and hyperthreading support for Intel chips).

* Fully new MacIntel compatible (Universal Binary compliant code)

* Fully Altivec compatible on PowerPC chips.