CTP Pro Changelog

What's new in CTP Pro 5.0

Aug 5, 2016

New code base
Up to 4 GB main memory
Rendering up to 30% faster using frame buffering
Modern and modal user interface (GUI)
Different themes
Easier handling of graphics tablets
Bugfixes:
Issues with paint tools when using multiple monitors have been fixed
Dropouts with Undo using image filters have been eliminated
Dropouts using a series of different image filters have been eliminated
Error when playing a rendered scene backwards has been fixed

New in CTP Pro 4.7.0.1 (Jul 30, 2015)

Optimizations for Windows 8 and Windows 7:
The CTP file system was changed to comply with Windows 7 and Windows 8 requirements. This also involves the improvements of CTP's start dialog, see below. Most of the changes have happened "under the hood", so you will not experience them while working with CTP. Despite these changes, the compatibility to Windows Vista and Windows XP has remained as before.
Important: The only user noticable change refers to the location of the scene folder (including the "Villy the Devil" demo scene). This folder no longer will be placed in the CTP program folder, instead it will now be placed in the user environment, which is a requirement by Microsoft. Of course you are free to use your existing scene folders, no matter their location. We recommend to use a different partition or a different or external hard drive for your work.
Start dialog improved:
The start dialog has been modified and improved. Some of the changes refer to Windows 7 and Windows 8. The tree view (to the left) will now show localized folder names. On the right side you will get more information about your saved scenes. Icons will now show whether or not a scene is opened or in use by another user. You can also easily see now which scene is new or empty. In addition to that, the CTP start dialog now shows important details of your projects, such as number of frames and fields of a scene, the video resolution and information on the frame rate.
Show CPU usage in the status bar:
Due to popular demand we have added a display in the status bar, which dynamically shows the CPU usage when working with CTP. This is achieved using a bar graph with changing colors from green to red and a percentage readout. Now you can follow up, how certain CTP operations use your CPU. Since CTP is optimized to use one CPU core only, the bar graph will only show the CPU core in use by CTP.
You can switch off the CPU usage display under Options, if you do not need it.
More presets for 4k Ultra HD resolutions:
More 4k Ultra High Definition presets have been added to the Output Format selector of CTP Pro HD, when setting up a new scene and its properties. CTP Pro HD supports any resolution up to 8182 x 8192. Also, it is possible to set up any frame rate up to 99 frames per second. This allows to benefit from any existing frame setting or frame setting to come in the future as more High Definition standards are being introduced. In order to make it easy, you will find a good preselection of the most common industry standard settings.
New shortcuts for X-Y pan:
When working with X and Y pan camera movements it is possible to manipulate X or Y exclusively by holding the Shift key. This works either when moving keyframes in the camera curve, as well as when manipulating the keyframed object directly in the visualization area.
CTP Help System:
Several help topics have been added or extended.
Bugfixes:
Inconsistencies of the functions "Rename cells" and "Unlink cells" have been fixed.
Several corrections in the help system.

New in CTP Pro 4.6 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in CTP Pro 4.5 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in CTP Pro 4.0 (Jul 30, 2015)

Spanish User Interface:
The CTP Pro software can be switched between English, Spanish or German user interface. The selection can conveniently be made directly from the Tools menu.
Integrated Help System:
CTP's integrated help system has been extended and updated. The integrated help system is available in English, Spanish or German, depending on the language selection for the user interface.
Windows 8 Compatibility:
In the past months, CTP Pro has been thoroughly tested and adopted to Windows 8 for x-86 PCs. CTP Pro 4.0 works very well on any 32-bit or 64-bit version of the new Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft.
Support for High Definition USB Webcams:
CTP Pro supports any standard high definition USB webcam with optical resolutions of up to 1600 x 1200 (4:3) or 1280 x 720 (HD 16:9) or 1920 x 1080 (Full HD 16:9) pixels.
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema and Studio webcams, as well as the Logitech C300, C510 and C910 webcams have been successfully tested.
Any other USB webcam compatible to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 should also work with CTP Pro.
Support for high definition webcams not only allows for common line testing tasks when working with hand drawn animation, but is also ideal for cut out, time lapse and stop motion animation techniques. Even mixing and matching all of these animation styles is easily made possible.
Automatic Pegbar Detection expanded and improved:
CTP Pro features an automatic peg bar detection, which you can use to align your images relative to the peg holes of your drawings when importing images via scanner, file import or video input, respectively webcam.
For your information: When creating hand drawn animation, it is common to use punched paper which is placed on top of a corresponding peg bar. This ensures, that all drawings are kept perfectly aligned to each other.
CTP Pro recognizes the most common peg bars and is capable to keep the drawings perfectly aligned when importing them, by detecting the peg holes.
You will find all peg bar detection related settings in the import dialogs, such as Import Image from File, Import Image from Video or Import Image from Scanner.
CTP Pro Support Center:
The new CTP Pro Support Center is the "Swiss Knife" to administrate the CTP Pro software installation on your computer. The CTP Pro Support Center allows easy access to the following administration functions:
CTP License Information
CTP Hardware Changelog
CTP Reset
CTP Unregister
Bugfixes:
The Zoom button on the View toolbar (the one with the magnifier icon) stayed activated all the time, and it made it impossible to do any camera settings. It was not possible to deactivate it. This issue has now been resolved.
By default the Field Chart and the red clip rectangle are now always active and positioned in the center of the imported preview image. Especially for CTP beginners often it was a surprise, that after importing a bunch of drawings using webcam, scanner or file import, only a small part of their drawing was inside the captured frame and the other part was empty, although the whole image to import was displayed on the preview screen. The reason for this was a misaligned Field Chart in conjunction with the red rectangle, which limits the captured area. Both, Field Chart and red clip rectangle, had to be activated first to be seen and then positioned. This issue has now been resolved.

New in CTP Pro 3.0 (Jul 30, 2015)

Standardized Color Palettes:
Color palettes are often used by artists to get constant color values in the ink & paint process of cel animation. CTP Pro has always supported color models through the use of user definable color palettes, the so-called Color Model Archives (CMA).
In addition to user definable color palettes, the CTP Pro HD, CTP Pro SD and CTP Paint versions now also support a series of pre-defined and widely standardized color palettes, such as RGB or RAL.
The Classic RAL System is used for defining standard colors for paint and coatings. RAL is the most popular Central European Color Standard today. The colors are a standard used in architecture, construction, or industry. CTP Pro, being able to access these color definitions, will make this new functionality a good choice e.g. for industrial movies.
The standardized color palettes put all colors of a single palette in an easy to use scrollable window, providing all the necessary information to select a color from its name, number, HEX value or its appearance.
RGB or RAL colors are often referenced by their name or number or specific value. It is therefore possible to switch between color name, color number and its HEX value.
The interface is following the CTP Pro standards: included in the main (and only) window, it is resizable (with a minimum size to avoid loss of information) and scrollable. Since the color names are important, they are sorted in a list (from left to right in the color bar) as opposed to palettes which are displayed as a matrix.
Enhanced Sheet Settings:
Mouse wheel scrolling and zooming in Exposure Sheet and Storage Sheet:
CTP Pro now supports mouse wheel scrolling and zooming in the Exposure Sheet and the Storage Sheet. This function can be configured in the CTP Pro options' dialog.
Vertical scroll: The mouse wheel allows to scroll the Exposure or Storage sheet vertically. Scrolling the wheel forward will move the vertical slider upwards, scrolling back will move the vertical slider downwards.
Horizontal scroll: Holding the SHIFT key on the keyboard and turning the mouse wheel allows to scroll the Exposure or Storage horizontally. Scrolling the wheel forward will move the horizontal slider to the left, scrolling back will move the horizontal slider to the right.
Zooming in and out: Holding the CTRL key on your keyboard and turning the mouse wheel allows to zoom in and out the Exposure and Storage Sheet. Scrolling the wheel forward will zoom out (for better overview of the sheet), scrolling back will zoom in (showing more cell details). Clicking on the "1:1" button in the upper left corner of the Exposure or Storage sheet will reset the zoom to the default value.
Variable row size and font size for Exposure Sheet and Storage Sheet:
CTP Pro now supports variable sizes for rows on the Exposure Sheet and variable font size on Exposure Sheet and Storage Sheet.
Activating the variable row size on the Exposure Sheet allows to resize the row, making it smaller or larger. Resize by simply positioning the mouse cursor over any grid boundary on the left side.
The mouse cursor will change its appearance. Clicking and holding the left mouse button while dragging the mouse up or down will resize the rows of the Exposure Sheet. All rows will be resized to the new size automatically.
In order to change the font size on the Exposure and Storage Sheets, set the font size to "small", "medium" or "large".
It is also possible to show the complete cell name without wordwrap, should the length of the cell name exceed the cell width.
Hotkey support for camera graph parameters:
Hotkey support for the camera graph parameters Pan, Zoom, Blur, Rotation and Opacity has been added. Once one of these parameters is active, it is easy to step clockwise by pushing the TAB key on the keyboard. It is possible to step counter clockwise by holding the SHIFT key while pushing the TAB key at the same time. Either direction will always be performed in an infinite loop.
More presets for 4k and 8k high definition resolutions:
More 4k and 8k Ultra High Definition and Super High Definition presets have been added to the Output Format selector of CTP Pro HD, when setting up a new scene and its properties.
CTP Pro HD supports any resolution up to 8182 x 8192. Also, it is possible to set up any frame rate up to 99 frames per second. This allows to benefit from any existing frame setting or frame setting to come in the future as more High Definition standards are being introduced.
In order to make it easy, you will find a good preselection of the most common industry standard settings.
As a matter of fact, CTP Pro HD users will now find a selection of the most popular 4k and 8k resolutions for immediate use.
Last but not least, we have also added Super Hi-Vision, developped by NHK Japan which is an 8k resolution (7680 x 4320 pixels).
New import selector for image and video files:
When importing image or video files into the Storage Sheet of CTP Pro, users may find it useful to now have the new import selector at hand, which will allow to preselect a specific file format for CTP Pro to look after and exclusively display for faster and easier browsing in the image and movie data stored at any place on the hard drive or in any other folder on the network.
Import and export of Toonz TZU and TZP files:
CTP Pro now is capable to import and export Toonz 4.2 files in the TZU and TZP format, which have been compressed with LZW. This allows to exchange image data between CTP Pro and Toonz 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6.
Bugfixes in CTP Pro 3.0:
CTP Pro´s Rename/Replace behaviour has been changed and improved. Several reported glitches have been fixed to make renaming and replacing safer. Undo for these operations has been dropped to avoid any possible loss of data when performing the Renaming/Replace function. An optional setting for the behaviour of the renaming/replacing cursor has been added to the Sheet Settings, which can be found in the CTP options´ dialog.

New in CTP Pro 2.0 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in CTP Pro 1.8 (Jul 30, 2015)

No more sound levels by default when creating a scene:
When a new scene is created, the S01 and S02 sound levels are no longer included in the exposure sheet. Older scene files, and new scene files in which the user added sound levels are still supported and open correctly.
Variable speed playback:
Playback speed can now be adjusted while CTP Pro is in Playback mode. The user can lower/higher the speed from 1 fps to as many as 100 fps, if the computer allows such a fast playback. There are three ways to do that:
From the Player menu, the user will find two new options: Slower and Faster.
Hot keys (Ctrl+PgUp to play faster/Ctrl+PgDn to play slower) are also available.
Finally, two new arrow buttons in the View/Player area (next to the frames slider) can be used to change the playback speed. The current playback speed is still indicated in the Status bar at the lower end of the window.
New scanner resolutions:
Previous CTP Pro versions would allow up to 4 times (4X) the resolution of a scanned drawing to preserve detail. CTP Pro 1.8 now offers up to 32 times (32X) the resolution.
Goto n-th frame when clicking in camera curve preview window
When the user clicks in the camera curve preview window (while editing camera motion, zoom, rotation), the corresponding frame will automatically be activated in the exposure sheet.
Named cells:
Cells can now be renamed with any combination of characters and numbers. Up to 21 characters/numbers can be used to name a cell. In other words, users are no longer forced to name cells with the "A0001" naming model.
Gradient fills:
Two new fill modes are added to the Fill tool: Cartesian and Radial gradient fills. The user can use the Tools Options dialog to choose which gradient fill mode to use. The Fill tool still works as before, but using the Alt key while clicking on the region to paint will perform a gradient fill.
Gradients are defined by the foreground and background colors that are available in the Paint area of CTP Pro; it is therefore a 2-color gradient.
When using the Cartesian fill mode, the user can define the angle of the fill by dragging the mouse button with the Alt key still pressed. When the mouse button is released, the fill is performed.
When using the Radial fill mode, the user can define the center of the fill by clicking on a precise point in the region to fill. The radial fill is performed inside the rectangular region defined by the actual region to fill.
Textured Fills:
The Tools Options dialog offers another new fill mode called Textured Fill. This mode lets the user fill a specific area with a specified texture file. To use the Textured fill mode, select the Fill tool, then select the Textured Fill mode in the Tools Options dialog, click on the Browse... button to select an image file (any image file type that is normally recognized by CTP Pro can be selected as a texture), and finally, use the Alt key while clicking in the desired region to be filled. The texture is centered at the mouse location when the button is clicked.
Note: The texture filename and its size are written in the Tools Options dialog. An additional feature called "Repeat Texture" is available when Textured Fill is selected. When activated, this feature repeats the texture if the whole texture has been used in the fill algorithm (i.e. when the region to fill is bigger than the texture itself).
Another new feature called "Use first pixel for overflow" can be used whenever the texture is not repeated. When activated, overflow pixels are set to the first pixel of the texture (at (0,0)) instead of repeating the first/last available pixel of the current scanline from the texture.
Alpha channel information is preserved when using a partially transparent texture, as all color/alpha channels are used by the fill algorithm.
New Tools Options dialog:
A new Tools Options dialog is available in the View menu via the "Show/Hide Tools Options" option. This dialog is used to modify the current drawing tool. This dialog will evolve over time and should show more options in a near future (i.e. before the CTP Pro 1.8 version is actually out). This dialog can be viewed as the Tools dialog in such applications as Adobe Photoshop or Jasc Paint Shop Pro.
The Fill and Line tools are particularly affected by that new dialog. It is possible to modify the tool type by choosing one of the available tool choices in the drop down menu. For example, gradient fill modes can be selected in the drop down menu; new line tool types can also be selected from the drop down menu (line, rectangle, ellipses, and possibly curves in the future).
Brush always visible:
When using a drawing tool that uses a brush (Eraser, Pen, Airbrush, etc.), it is now possible to set the tool to show the brush at all times. ith previous CTP Pro versions, the brush would disappear whenever the mouse button was clicked, until it was released.
Use the Tools Options dialog to activate the "Always visible" option. Each tool has its own setting value.
New Ellipses line drawing mode
Using the Tools Options dialog, the user can modify the Line tool and draw ellipses.
To define the ellipse, first select the Ellipses type in the Tools Options dialog; then simply click the Ctrl key while dragging the cursor (exactly like drawing a rectangle).
Bug Fixes and other changes:
Big scene camera tension points loss fix
bug prevented some camera tension points to be displayed and modified, in scenes with a particularly large number of frames. The tension points were created correctly, saved correctly, and reloaded correctly, but the bug would discard tension points above a certain number of frames. hat has been fixed.
Fixed a crash bug with Image menu
A bug would cause a crash when any of the Image menu would be selected with at least one camera or sound cell was part of the cell selection. That has been fixed.
Fixed a crash bug with image processing options in Image menu
A bug would cause a crash when repeated image processing actions (from the Image menu) were applied to a cell or a cell selection. That has been fixed.

New in CTP Pro 1.5 (Jul 30, 2015)

New support for MPEG sound:
You will now be able to export your sound tracks to MPEG Layer-3 format, compatible with virtually all mpeg players.
Image Quality Improved:
CTP Pro used to export images using a standard quality factor (35 on a possible scale of 2 to 255, 2 being the best quality available, 255 being the worst quality).
CTP Pro can now export images using a variable image quality factor. In the Export Frames dialog, it is now possible to specify the quality factor with a slider. The slider offers quality factors ranging from 2 (Maximum quality, no loss) to 255 (Minimum quality, full compression).
Please note that some file formats do not use the quality factor (PNG for example, always uses the best factor available - 2, that is) while other formats might use their own factor (all movie formats, for example).
Enhanced Shadow Line Recognition:
Shadow lines are now easily picked up by CTP Pro using a better algorithm, that is based on better color depiction. It can now use specific color tones in the HLS color model, instead of classifying all colors (other than black and white) as shadow lines. The algorithm requires the user to provide specific parameters, especially the Saturation value (which can vary from a production to another), as well as a choice of color ranges (this second step is particularly important and effective when an ultra-high quality scanner is used, which can lead to multiple colored lines instead of a black line), by using certain Hue ranges. hen the colors are determined, the user can tell CTP Pro to use specific colors with a control like this one.
Slates:
You can now create slate images in CTP Pro 1.5. Slate images are usually inserted at the beginning of a scene; the image contains various information about the scene and usually serves as a guide when the scene is archived on final media.
The "Staff/Production" area will let you specify the right information. You can then select the information that you want to appear in the slate image by checking the appropriate boxes.
The "Slate Configuration" area lets you modify the layout of the image.
You can select a background from a choice of images: Black or Blue backgrounds (common in productions), use the first available frame from the scene, or use a specific image (by choosing the "Other:" choice. If you choose the first available frame or a specific image, you can blur and/or darken the background image by checking the "Blur" and "Darken" boxes. You can also specify the font to use by clicking on the "Change Font?" button. Please note that you can also change the font color by clicking on the same button. You can finally add a shadow (black) to the text by checking the "Text Shadow" box.
CTP Pro 3:2 Pulldown:
CTP Pro can now export frames using a special method that converts 24 images/sec into 30 images/sec. It uses 24 images that were created in CTP Pro using a 24 images/sec film scene and generates 30 video images that meet NTSC video timing requirements. This process is called a 3:2 Pulldown. The process currently allows to transfer a 24 img/s scene (film sequence) to a 30 img/s scene (NTSC video sequence) directly in CTP Pro, without having to use a Telecine or any 3rd party program.
New Higher Resolution Scan:
CTP Pro now offers to scan at various High Resolution factors. New values include x1.25, x1.5, x2.0, x3.0 and x4.0. With these new factors, CTP Pro lets the user choose between various quality vs. scan speed compromises. Factors under or equal to x2.0 have proven great speed, while factors over x3.0 will provide the user with great line quality.

New in CTP Pro 1.4 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in CTP Pro 1.3 (Jul 30, 2015)

Satellites:
In CTP Pro 1.3 there is a new modular approach. Besides the full package CTP Pro which contains all the described features below, there is the possibility to get CTP modules which do have only a specific subset of the CTP Pro version. We call them Satellites. With these satellites it is possible to equip a specific cartoon "workbench" with just enough features for a specific task to be done. However the compatibility between all the Satellites and CTP Pro remains and the user interface is always the same throughout all available packages. Needless to say that it is of course possible to combine several Satellites up to the full CTP Pro package.
See the following CTP product matrix for more details on the specific functions of each of the available packages.
General News:
There is now a new and nice installation tool for CTP Pro 1.3. With this intuitive installer we hope to avoid all of those "HASP not installed problems"
Undo for all operations affecting a range of cels (except for Merge Cels).
Undo for all operations performed in the Color Models view.
Better internal file cleanup, it only asks to remove unused files very occasionally.
Replaced all buttons with a nice image
Render quality buttons have been placed on the toolbar and removed from the options dialog. This buttons affect all renders (on display, to video or exports). They also appear on the camera toolbar.
Added a checkerboard feature on the display area. If an image is transparent we can now see a checkerboard background under which it helps visualize unfilled or tranparent image areas. This option can be disabled while importing images with the Show Checkerboard tool button or the Checkerboard option in the Options dialog, Painting tab, for general scene image display.
When importing or renaming/unlinking images/cels we can now set a step value which will automatically import our images on two’s, three’s, whatever. It seems a lot of people wanted their cel numbers to match their frame numbers, so they had to rename each cell again after importing them to make them match! Now you can import them already with the right step, or renumber them afterwards as a group.
Exposure Sheet:
Very cool feature called Reload From Storage to replace images on the Exposure Sheet with their counterparts on the Storage Sheet. It only affects the range of cels selected on the Exposure Sheet. It will replace the contents of any selected cel that has the exact same name as another one inside the Storage Sheet. It is extremely useful to replace the Exposure Sheet setup during the line test, with camera captured rough images, with the later scanned final images.
Rename Cels button added on the Storage Sheet which allows for automatic renaming of a sequence of cels. Simply enter the name of the first cel and all the cels in the selected range will be renamed in sequence.
Unlink Cels button added on the Exposure Sheet which allows for the unlinking (with automatic renaming as a consequence of it) of a range of cells. This is very necessary since from version 1.2 and on, cels with the same can only have the exact same content, they are linked together. With this option we can generate duplicate cels with the same graphical content, but totally unrelated, used to apply any kind of effect without affecting the original cels.
Pressing any single key number while a sheet cell is selected will set that’s cell’s repetitions to the pressed number. A very fast way to edit the exposure sheet.
Alos, easily add/remove repetitions with the +/- keys.
Automatically skips repetitions when moving up and down a layer on the x-sheet with the cursor keys. Use the CTRL+cursor keys to move over repetitions. Features 4,5 and 6 combined provide an extremely fast way to edit exposure sheets.
New colors given to the Storage Sheet background to make it more distinguishable with the Exposure Sheet. It was necessary to avoid confusion while using the new import features which open and close both sheets automatically every time you enter or leave the import mode.
Printing:
Print only active layers option available.
Project Management:
Directory browser on Open Scene/CMA dialogs, very easy to handle production hierarchies!
Locked scenes per user.
Possibility to check who’s using what scene.
Create new folders easily from the Open/Create Scene dialogs by writing its name on the file path text box. If the entered directory doesn’t exist it will ask you if you want to create it.
Importing Images:
Import dialogs have disappeared, now everything is on the bottom toolbar, much, much better control.
Use of pre-filtering to improve the result obtained from the usual cleanup filters. Before this version we had an Artistic filter which we used to filter images with no clear lines. This filter was a simple highlights/shadows histogram adjustment algorithm. Since it is a very mild filter, but which cleans up rough dirt, we found out that applied before the other filters could make their work a lot easier and allow them to achieve much better results. So now there is no Artistic filter, at least not on the filter list. It is what we now call the Prefilter. To adjust the Prefilter we have four buttons. The Shadows selection tool, the Highlights selection tool, the Auto tool and the Reset tool. Use the Shadow/Highlights tools to click on the scanned image and select what colors should be black/white respectively. Use the Auto tool to automatically adjust the histogram so that the darkest color goes down to black and the brightest color goes up to white. The rest of colors will be adjusted accordingly. The Reset tool simply resets all values so that no Prefilter is applies. To use this tools effectively turn on the White Check option and you’ll see how fast you can adjust this filter interactively. Once the prefilter is adjusted, adjusting the other filters is a lot easier than before.
Extremely intuitive prefilter level selector for highlights and shadows. Used with the White Check mode on gives ultra-fast filter setup with extraordinary results.
High-Res scanning mode which doesn’t require the use of any filters and gives thinner lines! Used mostly with Black & White scanning mode to make the best use of high speed scanners. This feature uses our latest down-scaling algorithm. It allows the user to scan in black & white mode (the fastest there is) at very high resolution, that image is scaled down to the required animation resolution, and in the process that black & white image is converted to grayscale with the appropriate antialiasing. Since the images are scanned in black & white we need a new control, the Threshold slider, which decides what goes to black and what goes to white. This is decided by the scanner at scan time taking this value into account. Since the image comes in so extremely clean (just black and white!) there is no need to apply any cleanup filters afterwards!!
Threshold control to adjust scanner parameters for black&white scanning. (explained above)
Storage Sheets are now editable to a certain degree and can be edited while using the Import toolbar.
Possibility to Append, Insert or even Replace cels of the Storage Sheet when importing images. The Replace feature will keep the original cel numbers. This, together with the editable Storage Sheet makes the import process extremely flexible.
Auto import feature based on timer to avoid user interaction at all. The user enters the number of images to capture and the time between each capture. With this feature the user can skip having to press the keyboard for every image captured. For camera capturing and single sheet scanning it allows the user to only worry about changing each animation sheet at the right time.
Acustic feedback for scanner or camera import. Uses a standard WAV file or the PC beeper if there is no sound file. For automated scanning it doesn’t have much use, but for manual scanning or camera capture it marks the exact moment when the program has already grabbed the image (no matter whatever you see on the computer screen) and it is OK to change the animation sheet.
All import parameters are now saved with each scene (at users discretion) so you can easily get back the location and filter parameters which are sometimes difficult to figure out.
Button to select clip region values in pixels, inches or fields.
Better default values for crop area positioning and size.
Paint:
Tablet pressure sensitivity support for brush size and opacity. What values are affected is setup in the Paining tab of the Options menu dialog. The minimum and maximum values used while active are set as usual through the brush setup area. The size and transparency values now appear with two buttons on the brush setup area if a pressures tablet has been detected. The left button is used to adjust the minimum value and the right button is for the maximum value.
New mode button functionality: paint line or color while viewing both. Now the fully painted Devil button appears on the center meaning that when pressed you see both, line and color. The line and color Devils select which layer are you painting independently of what you are seeing. Watch how the paint toolbar changes to denote which layer you are modifying. Also be careful with image processing operations, they will modify what you are seeing, otherwise it would be impossible to affect both line and color at the same time.
Box Eraser available with the Eraser tool by pressing the CTRL key while dragging the mouse. It will erase everything inside the marked box.
RGB color selector available, as well as the previous HLS.
Use the airbrush tool on both line (not available previously) and color mode.
Use the colorbrush tool also on both line and color (not available previously) mode.
Brush size is now shown on-screen with a perimeter circle, which disappears whenever your press the mouse button to paint.
Brush size modifiable with keyboard shortcut (D) and mouse. If a pressure sensitive device is being used, the D key will only adjust the maximum brush size.
Special key while using the fill tool, use the "0" key and press the mouse button to fill with full transparent color. This is very useful while painting, if paint spills out of the area being painted, cleaning the area with this option is extremely fast, no new brush color needs to be setup, so we can resume painting immediately.
Camera Animation:
Keyframed Blur animation is now possible for those nice Multi-plane effects. Besides, it uses the new blur algorithm which gives much better results.
Keyframed Transparency animation is also available now. This one works really nice to create beautiful transitions between scenes.
Global camera will also be applied to the preview while editing any local camera. Before, while editing a local camera, the global camera was not applied, so you weren’t really seeing the final result. Now it is, and it does it really fast!
Allows deeper zooms on the curve display.
Output:
The export dialog now allows the export of images at full size, not just the preestablished scene size. This allows for the export of layout designs.
Frame preview render also allows for full size previews of the whole frame setup. This is a feature indispensable for the future camera layout mode described below.
Added shortcut (O) to activate/deactivate Reference/Onion Skin mode.
Documentation:
Vastly improved Help On-line (HTML).
Optimizations:
Highly increased frame/cel change refresh speed!
Improved blur algorithm for extreme quality results.
Improved downscaling algorithm... no more broken lines on deep zoom outs!!
Faster x-sheet navigation and editing due to overall optimizations.
Faster rendering speed.
Optimized Undo memory handling for improved feedback speed while painting.
Improved refresh speed on the Navigator.