■Flipping
I have tested the off pegs features, as well as the new "off pegs flipping" feature and they are great.
But there seems to be a sort of bug with the new "off pegs flipping" feature since the first frame doesn't display long enough to be seen by the human eye. Having the possiility to change settings would be nice.
About the flipping feature (shortcut key "w") in general I have some problem. First of all when we flip with paper we flip betheen the previous, current, and next frame. The flipping feature is impossible to customize the way we could flip between these 3 frames correctly, displaying each frame an equal amount of time.
I would like to be able to flip correctly between 3 drawings(instances) and varying the speed on the fly.
When this is possible I would like to be able to flip between 5 drawing, then 7,9,11... well I won't flip with more drawings I thing. At least being able to flip correctly with 3 and 5 drawings is really necessary.
■ Scanning and Colorizing
Here is an example of how keyframes are drawn. You can see red and blue lines (in fact there are sometimes green lines or even more)
![Image](http://i48.tinypic.com/if1r9d.jpg)
These keyframes are scanned for inking.
I don't think I could use the Scan cleaning feature since it would make all the lines black.
So I would like to know how to make the white paper transparent in TVpaint.
Then I would like to know how I could ink the drawing this way:
When I use the paint bucket in an area I would like the area to be colored, as well as the red, or blue line (or whatever color which is not black). Yes I would like any non black line to be colored the same color as the area (preferably auomatically, selecting a color range is not possible because the color differs from area to area).
■Duplicating clips and applying different transformations to them
I often use flash to create a clip (for example a falling leaf loop) them multiplicate it many times with different sizes and applying different filters or movement. AND when I modify the original clip, all others clips are modified the same way (unless I decided to duplicate them under another name and they wouldn't be modified). This is an absolutely killer feature of Flash that makes a 3 days work being done in a few minutes. I guess this is becoming a must have feature for anyone who have experienced it. In some way it is also possible in After Effects with the "composition" thing.
In TVpaint there is the Xsheet where it is possible to select another clip as source, but I don't find the way to apply to the xsheet layer any transformation. I guess the flash and after effects feature could be simulted with the Xsheet thing but it seems it is not possible. Another problem is that when the stack FX is applied it is impossible to go back. What would be nice is to have the stack effect ALWAYS in preview mode, and being able to apply as many effects as we want and they would be saved. And ONLY at the final rendering everything would be rendered in order(cascading rendering), a bit like the after effects compositions. I guess without this feature there is no way I would do any compositing inside TvPaint (which would still be the best soft for hand drawing animation line tests).
I think many of my question might be answered by people who know Tvpaint very well... but I'm not sure everything I am looking for is already possible with TVPaint unfortunately (>_<)