Animation controls menu

Copy, Cut, Paste, and Delete

Cut, Copy, and Delete affect the keys at the current time or in the selected ranges. Cut and Copy place the selected keys on an internal clipboard for pasting, and Delete removes the selected keys from the timeline. Copy, Cut, and Delete also operate on integer time ranges. For example, if your current time is 5, these items act on the range of 5 up to 6, but not including any keys at time 6.

Paste puts any copied or cut keys from the clipboard at the current time. Paste > Paste Connect pastes copied keys the same as if you select Edit > Keys > Paste with the Connect option turned on.

There are two ways to paste keys into the Time Slider:

• Click the time where you want the pasted keys to start. Existing keys beyond that time will be shifted by the time range of the pasted keys.
• To fit the keys into a particular time range, -click the Time Slider to select a time range. The keys will be scaled to fit that range. Existing keys in the selected area are removed.

Snap

Use Snap to force selected keys to snap in time to the nearest whole time units.

Keys

• Convert to Key will convert selected Breakdowns to normal keys.
• Convert to Breakdown will convert normal keys to Breakdowns.
• Add Inbetween will add a single Inbetween.
• Remove Inbetween will remove a single Inbetween.

Tangents

The Tangents item will set the tangent of the keys at the current time, or all the keys in a selected time range.

Playback Speed

Lets you set the playback speed or frame rate of your current scene.

Real-time

Sets the playback speed of your current scene to 24 frames per second.

Play Every Frame, Free

Sets the playback speed of your current scene to play every frame and not be clamped to a specific maximum frame rate.

Play Every Frame, Max Real-time

Sets the playback speed of your current scene to play every frame and be clamped to a maximum frame rate of 24 frames per second.

Playback Looping

To select playback looping options, -click the Time Slider and select Playback Looping > Once, Oscillate, or Continuous. These are the same options as those in the Preferences window.

Set Range To

• Start/End sets the playback range to the Start and End values set in the Playback Range numeric input fields.
• Min/Max sets the playback range to the first and last keys of the scene.
• Selected sets the playback range to the range defined by the current selection on the Time Slider.
• Enabled clips sets the playback range to include the range of all enabled clips.
• Sound Length sets the playback range to the duration of a sound currently loaded into the Time Slider.
• Preferences sets the playback range to the values in the Preferences window.

Enable Stepped Preview

Lets you toggle Stepped Preview mode on and off, easily switching curves from Spline to Stepped tangents and back. When on, keys temporarily display with Stepped tangents, so playing back your animation gives a quick view of object positions as they hit each keyframe. When off, the animation plays as usual with the original tangents. See also Stepped tangents.

Sound

This menu lets you select an imported sound to be displayed on the Time Slider.

Playblast

Selecting this opens the Playblast window. Selecting the option box () opens the Playblast options window.