You can paint on the canvas using a variety of brush types and colours. Once you select a brush type, you can modify brush attributes to further refine your strokes. A stroke can be applied to a single frame, or simultaneously to multiple frames. You can paint on the result or output matte, or you can use matte paint mode controls to paint on the result and output matte at the same time.

You can restrict brush strokes to the area delimited by the matte. For example, assume that you have a front input that includes a person shot against a blue screen and a corresponding matte clip. If you opt to limit brush strokes to the matte, your brush strokes on the result or output matte appear only inside the matte area and, therefore, over the person. If you then limit brush strokes to the existing strokes, new paint strokes are applied only over strokes that have already been applied.