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Freeze Clips Dialog Box

To display: Select multiple clips that you want to freeze together and choose Clip Freeze to New Source or Freeze and Replace from the animation mixer command bar.

For more information, see Baking Clips into New Action Sources [Nonlinear Animation in the Animation Mixer].

Action Name	Name for the resulting frozen action source.
Ignore inactive channels when freezing	Ignores inactive channels in the clip. If you deselect this option, the inactive channels are added to the frozen clip. Because you can also freeze a single clip, including inactive channels is a way of removing some channels for a clip (deactivate them before freezing). This is particularly useful for motion-capture data.
Step Value	Frame step increments to use. When = 1, every frame is plotted; when = 2, every other frame is plotted, and so on.

Fcurve Options

Kind of Fcurve	Boolean fcurves map time to Boolean values (true or false). These create staircase-like function curves, useful for plotting animated toggles (on/off values). Integer fcurves map time to integer values. These also create staircase-like fcurves, useful for plotting the values of integer parameters, such as RGB values. Standard is the same kind of fcurve as used in the animation editor, mapping time and values. Raw Data maps time and values, like standard fcurves but using only linear interpolation. They require less memory, which means a smaller file size; useful when long animation sequences are plotted, such as from motion capture sessions.
Interpolation	You can select the type of interpolation only with a Standard fcurve: Spline, Linear, or Constant. These are the same as fcurve interpolations the animation editor (see Choosing a Function Curve Interpolation Type [ Animation ]).
Process rotations to ensure continuity	Any complete (full 360-degree) rotations or more are processed for continuity. This option treats orientation as an entity instead of individual rotation function curves. This allows the plot processing to avoid "spikes" in the continuity of the rotation curves, when they may jump between equivalent (but discontinuous) representations. Rotation continuity processing is done after the plot is processed but before curve fitting (see below).
Fit plotted values with an fcurve	Reduces the number of keys on the fcurves resulting from the plot.
Fit Tolerance	If the previous option is selected, use this option to adjust the closeness of the fit of the curve. Smaller values respect the original shape of the curve more by using more keys, resulting in a fit that keeps closer to the original curve.