Motion tracking offers significantly greater flexibility, accuracy, and performance, using intuitive controls that help you analyze and edit your results. Masking is robust, with the automatic creation of masks from alpha channel information, better keylighting of semitransparent objects and hair, and Roto-Bezier masks. The only way to change a stroke's shape is to use a mask or the eraser, though you can edit size, position, and rotation directly. While all this seems overly complicated, it gives precise control over the animation of brushstroke properties and behaviors. The new Photoshop-like, pressure-sensitive vector paint brushes and clone tool are used in the Layer window, not the Comp window, and editing of existing strokes must be done in the Timeline window.
It takes only a few steps to create some spectacular text effects. Text Animators and Selectors easily adjust various properties and behaviors, such as position, tracking, rotation, skew, hue, opacity, and so on. Instead of the cumbersome process of splitting animated text across various layers, each text layer can support several combinations of text and effects.