Configuring A Stylus For Vector Paint In Windows (Pro Only); Playing Back Your Painting With Vector Paint (Pro Only) - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

When you select a path and choose Smoother, a dialog box appears in which you can type a Max Error value. This
value sets the tolerance for the smoothing. Higher values remove more points on the path, resulting in a smoother
stroke. Set values within the range 0–100. The default value, 1.0, removes only redundant points, maintaining details
in the stroke.
After you click OK in the dialog box, the stroke paths immediately reflect the smoothing in the Composition panel.
Note: Smoothing cannot be undone. Removing these points may alter the shape of the path. If you want to preview the
results before you commit, create a duplicate of the layer and apply Smoothing to test the result. If the results are satis-
factory, then apply the command to the original layer.

Configuring a stylus for Vector Paint in Windows (Pro only)

You can specify your preferences for your Wacom or Creation Station tablet in several areas of the After Effects
interface.
Note: Using a tablet with the Vector Paint effect is not supported in Mac OS X. You can, however, use a tablet with the
standard paint tools and the Paint effect. See "To set brush dynamics for graphics tablets" on page 319.
Select the following preferences in the Vector Paint Preferences dialog box by clicking Options in the Effects Control
panel:
Tablets are not supported in Vector Paint on Mac OS X. "Unknown" appears.
Stylus Vendor
Use High Res. Coordinates
stylus). This setting overrides normal mouse coordinates to use the higher resolution of the tablet, recording strokes
with greater precision and subpixel accuracy.
Note: Wacom tablets do not support High Res. Coordinates when Proportional mode is selected in the Wacom control
panel.
If you experience offset coordinates with your pen, try the following:
•
Check that screen resolution and monitor settings haven't changed.
•
If using a Wacom tablet, make sure that your tablet-mapping aspect isn't set to Proportional. Select To Fit mode
or One To One mode instead.
•
Restart your system.
If all else fails, turn off Use High Res. Coordinates; subpixel accuracy will be lost, but Pressure and Eraser modes will
still be available.

Playing back your painting with Vector Paint (Pro only)

Use the Playback Mode pop-up menu in the Effect Controls panel to specify when and how quickly your strokes
appear in your composition. When you draw strokes, Vector Paint records information for the stroke start time and
the drawing time of each stroke (in real time). The Playback Mode you select determines when a stroke starts and
for how long it appears. You can set the speed at which the strokes play back using Playback Speed.
Play back your strokes using standard (spacebar) preview or RAM preview, or by viewing the results of a rendered
Composition.
Note: Regardless of how you record your strokes and which Playback Mode you select when recording, you can always
switch to another Playback Mode at any time.
While the Playback Mode chosen affects what you see during playback, it also determines what you see while you
are drawing strokes. Onion Skin mode, for example, is used primarily while drawing strokes, and then another mode
is selected before rendering.
When this option is checked, data is recorded with high resolution (if supported by the
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