Painting Creator defaults and pause

[dmz]

Greetings,
I have just started to play with painting creator and would love to use it but I have two issues.
Firstly, I always want to use the pencil with brush size 8. It appears that every time I launch painting creator, everything is reset and I have to select the pencil and change the size. Is there any way to default this?
Second, my biggest issue is that when I draw something, I would like it to stay on the screen for a few seconds once the drawing has finished. It seems to disappear immediately the drawing finishes. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks
David

[lata]

Hi David

Not used Painter Creator that much so don't know of a way to default the brush size

The pause of the painting I assume you would wish the top track to continue to play.

I can pause both by taking a snap shot and adding the image

Maybe there is a way of duplicating the painting?

Try this
1 / Place the painting effect onto the top track,
2 / navigate to last frame
3 / take a snapshot
4 / Add snapshot to overlay track adjacent to original effect, adjust duration
5 / add chroma Key effect to remove white background from image

[dmz]

Thanks.
Ive got steps 1-4.
Step 5 Im not sure what you mean. The first issue is that I seemed to have used the current background image for the painting creator so I guess Im supposed to change that setting to use a background colour of black (my pen colour is white).
How exactly do I use the chroma key effect to remove the black background please?

[dmz]

Ive just realised that I have another issue in trying to do this. If I open the painting creator and select a background colour instead of the image, then I do not know where I am drawing relative to the current video. What I am doing is drawing stuff relative to whats on the current video and if I cannot see it then it wont work. So it looks like Im stuck?

[lata]

Yes it is possible to do, but I have to explain it a little better.
I assume the top clip is a video clip and not an image.
The paint colour White does make a difference?

First go to Preferences F6 – edit tab –tick Use Fit to Screen as Default

1 / With the clip in the timeline place the curser to select the frame you wish to copy/paint over
2 / Open Paint Creator – use Current Timeline Image
3 / Paint over the image- OK then close this will create a transparent clip placed in the library.
4 /with an empty timeline drag this clip to the Overlay Track (second track down)
5 / add a Green colour clip to the top track
6 / navigate to the last frame of the transparent painted clip,
7 / Switch to Project Playback
8 / Edit (top Left) Take a snapshot
This saves an image having a Green background to the library.
9 / drag this image adjacent to the Paint clip.
10 / Double click the green clip to open the Options Panel.
Attributes Tab-Mask & Chroma Key—Apply Overlay Options—Should default to Green colour, effectively removing the colour.

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[dmz]

Sorry for the delay. Thanks so much for that last post - It did the trick. It would be nice to add this as a simple "feature" rather than going through all those steps. I had the idea of drawing dozens of texts in one of my projects but this process is too time consuming. So ive stuck with just basic text and I only use this for special text references.
Cheers
David