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app to paint frame by frame
I have a FCP clip that I want to export and paint some edges frame by frame. I have spent some hours in FCP trying to make some vector mask to do the job, but it is not satisfactory. Some sort of onion skinning feature where I can see frames overlayed would be helpful.
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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I’ve used commotion to do frame by frame painting – it has onion skinning and automation features to simplify the task.
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You will need to export your clip into another program such as After Effects or Combustion. If you have Photoshop you could export your clip as a numbered sequence and import each frame seperately, but strongly recomend using the first option.
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[FX Bear] “You will need to export your clip into another program such as After Effects or Combustion. If you have Photoshop you could export your clip as a numbered sequence and import each frame seperately, but strongly recomend using the first option.”
There’s also an open source app called Cinepaint (formerly known as Film Gimp) that will do this. It’s based on (or inspired by?) an old unix version of Photoshop, & has a Flip Book feature with Onionskinning. You’ll have to export your sequence as a series of stills, & then use QT to turn the finished stills into a clip when you’re done.
Cinepaint.org
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the advantage that commotion has over (earlier versions of) AE is that you can load a specified range of frames into memory. This makes is way faster. But maybe AE allows that now?
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I have done this kind of “paint rotoscoping” in Commotion DV before; another good option is to download the 30-day trial of Corel Painter from Corel’s website…I’ve discovered that the new versions of Painter allow you to do a lot of paint roto (and even clone stuff just like Commotion).
Hey, I might even buy the program!
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I read up on AE some, but it is not clear if it is vector or raster paint or both.
Thanks everyone for your replies! This is a helpful forum…
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Don’t know about AE, but Combustion has vector paint.
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Both After Effects and Combustion can cache frames into RAM for previewing work before rendering. Combustion has a feature where you can have a dual viewport, one for the loop playback of your work and the other for your paint operator…so as you paint frames, combustion will continue to loop, caching your changes into RAM and playing back as you work. Pretty cool stuff.
Joe Murray
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