Painting with Shift-Paint Records (Pro only)

Ordinarily, when you draw strokes with Vector Paint, those strokes are associated with the position of the current-time indicator. After you draw a stroke, you can draw more strokes at the same time setting or at different time settings. The results you see when you preview or render the composition depend on your Playback Mode setting. The Shift-Paint Records controls change the way that strokes associate with time settings. This is called QuickPaint mode. One of the advantages of this feature is that you can create fast continuous recordings of a sequence of strokes without redraw delays after each one.

To paint using QuickPaint mode:

1. Choose the Shift-Paint Records control you want before you paint the strokes. These controls are available only on the Shift-Paint Records submenu of the Vector Paint options menu.

Note: You cannot apply a Shift-Paint Records option to strokes you have already created.

2. Press Shift as you paint. Otherwise, the Shift-Paint Records options will not apply to those strokes.

When you draw, the Info palette displays the name of the selected control: Current Frame, Sequential Frames, Realtime, or Continuously.