Muting (Deactivating) Animation

 
 
 

Muting animation helps you isolate parts of an animation so that you can focus on specific areas at a time, making sure that you get each part of the animation working properly before you bring it all together.

When you mute animation, you temporarily disable the effect that certain animated parameters have on your objects. This helps you test out different factors of an animation as you're working. You can mute any type of animation in Softimage.

There are many ways in which you can mute animation: