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The TAB 3.2 Standard and Pro versions Main Features The TAB 3.2, available for Windows and Macintosh, gives animators more tools to draw and animate, new features to add power to animations, and improvements for most of the features already available to speed up the production pipeline. In addition to the TAB standard tools, the TAB Pro offers some special features developed specifically for professional users. You can draw with variable-thickness lines; create animations; manage hundreds of styles and textures; move around the characters and the camera, also in a 3D environment; import images and clips from other software. Animations once exported are ready to be used as broadcast-quality cartoons, rich contents for blogs or Web sites, and clips ready to be played on your mobile phones, or edited on your computer.
z Strokes Grouping and Layering Drawing strokes can be grouped and isolated to better manage z Support for Windows and Macintosh lines and areas, and their layering order can be managed to set The TAB is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X lines and areas that lie on top or stay behind. running on both PowerPC and Intel processors. z Global Line Thickness Control z Customizable Interface The line thickness of selected vectors, all drawing vectors in one Working rooms can be customized by adding and removing frame, and also on the entire animation level, can be globally interface panes and floating windows. increased or decreased. z Multiple Rooms and Preferences Dialog z Digital Light Table Rooms can be added and removed, and preferences can be When drawing the work area can be zoomed, panned and rotated defined to better suit your workflow. the way you prefer; professional custom elements like camera box
Platform & Interface
z Configurable Shortcuts Tools and commands shortcuts can be customized.
and safe area can be displayed.
z Automatic Inbetweener z Local Language Ready Vector-based drawings can be automatically interpolated to create animation levels. Possibility to have local version with different languages for menu commands, settings and labels. z Flexible Onion Skin
Drawing z Drawing Capabilities with Pressure Sensitivity Create vector-based drawings and animation levels with full support of pressure sensitive pens and tablets for drawing expressive variable-thickness lines.
Custom onion skin view can be activated in absolute and relative mode to check the animation. z Easy Rotoscoping Any full color image or sequence of images, and any Avi or QuickTime clip can be loaded in the scene and used for rotoscoping.
z Full Set of Drawing and Editing Tools Drawings can be edited thanks to a wide range of tools based on a z Raster-to-Vector Converter Raster images can be converted to vectors through a dialog handling technique that uses both standard and dynamic control containing a full set of options. points for expressive results and intuitive editing. z SWF Import Vectors drawings made with third-party software can be imported by using the SWF format.
z Available only in the TAB 3.2 Pro
Coloring z No Need For Repaint with Interactive Color Editing Palette changes are automatically applied to all level drawings; colors can be edited directly in the final scene, viewing backgrounds, overlay and other animation levels, with an immediate visual feedback. z Automatic Painting Tools Sequences of drawings and animated levels can be painted quickly and effectively thanks to a set of tool options.
z Complex Transformations Available Movements can be done along motion paths; animation speed can be controlled, and transformations can be cycled for the whole animation. z Digital Cutout Animation Characters can be drawn in sections, linked hierarchically, and animated like a cutout puppet. z Full Mask Management Elements of the animation can be hidden or displayed according to a shape or an animated shape.
z Smart Palettes Audio Animation level palettes have different view options; styles can be named and organized in pages, and colors can be animated or z Easier Lip Sync modified at once with the Palette Gizmo tool. Audio scrubbing is available to check the sync between images z Special Material, Pattern and Volume Styles and soundtrack. Styles range from plain colors supporting transparency, to special z Multiple Audio Files Import styles with multiple colors effects, from textures to sequence of You can import and edit all the audio files you want in the same drawings used as “scattered brushes” to create your own styles. xsheet you use to composite the animation, in order to better sync z Vector Drawings Line FX it with the sound track. Custom patterns and textures that follow the vector thickness and Exporting direction, can be applied to drawing lines. z Versatile Export Compositing Animations can be exported in different file formats, including z Familiar Xsheet Interface SWF, MOV, AVI and screen savers for Windows. The scene can be composited in the xsheet with spreadsheet-like z Amazing SWF Export editing tools, context sensitive menus and drag & drop actions. Export your animation in vector-based SWF format to publish it on z Global Controls on Animation your Web site; define a preloader animation, and set an URL for Scene timing and animation can be adjusted by inserting or the exported animation. deleting frames and multiple keys. z QuickTime, Avi and Mobile Video Output z Quick Level Exposure Create clips ready to be played on several devices, including The way animation are exposed in the xsheet can be quickly edited mobiles phones. thanks to specific commands; they can be cloned and their z Export Sequence of Images layering order can be easily rearranged. Output your animations in the most popular file formats, such as z Advanced Xsheet Editing BMP, JPG, TIF or TGA, specifying format options. Interactive click & drag editing on cells selection to duplicate z Render Queue for a Single Output them, and insert them in or overwrite previously exposed content; A queue of scenes can be created to be exported as a single commands to replace levels and to stretch the xsheet timing. animation; edit any scene in the queue and modify their order at z Wide Support Of File Format any time. The wide range of supported input and output format, including File Management Avi and QuickTime movies, avoids any incompatibility with third-party software. z Browser with Folder and Files Explorer-like browser, including My Documents, Libraries, z Powerful Animation History and Work-in-progress folders, to retrieve material to be Objects can be animated in a quick way by controlling and used in your scene. managing key positions and interpolations directly in the xsheet. z Editable Sub-xsheet Scenes can be loaded or created nested inside another scene, so that they can be managed as a single xsheet column that can be edited or saved as an independent scene.
z Drag & Drop Loading Files can be loaded by dragging and dropping them from the TAB browsers, and directly from the Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder.
z Scene Cast Files used in the scene are stored in the scene cast, where they can be organized in folders, and retrieved when needed.
z QuickTime and Avi Support Live sequences and clips made with third-party software can be easily imported in the scene.
z 3D Camera View with Automatic Multiplane Effect The camera can be animated in a 3D environment as if moving with a dolly or a truck; multiplane effects can be quickly created by actually moving the camera through characters and elements placed on the stage.
z Alpha Channel Support Images can be imported or exported with full transparency information for a later post-production compositing session.
z Full Set Of Object Transformations Drawings and camera can be moved in the work area and in the 3D environment, scaled, rotated and sheared in order to achieve the perfect animation.
z Available only in the TAB 3.2 Pro
z Flipbook Window Animation levels and exported sequences can be played back and checked with controls such as frame rate and RGBA channels.
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