Dope Sheet view area

The view area of the Dope Sheet displays keys hierarchically along the vertical axis. It displays time along the horizontal axis as cells or blocks.

NoteThe time blocks represented in the view area of the Dope Sheet are integer value divisions of time; that is, the block at time 2 includes the range of animation information from 2 to 3, excluding information at time 3.

Animated attributes are bounded by solid lines to indicate their extents. The colors of the blocks define the placement of an attribute or group of attributes within the hierarchy of the Dope Sheet.

Editing ranges of time and keys with the Dope Sheet Manipulator

See Manipulate a range of time and keys in the Dope Sheet.

Key and Curve colors

Blue

All keys of all displayed objects (Summary object).

Dark green

All of the keyable attributes for the selected object in the Dope Sheet outliner (object groups).

Light green

All of the individual attributes of a particular type, such as translation, rotation, and so on (compound attributes).

Black

Keys for unselected individual attributes.

Yellow

Selected keys.

Gray

Keys with a value of 0.

Dope Sheet pop-up menu

-click anywhere in the view area to open the Dope Sheet pop-up menu.

Sound in the Dope Sheet

Sounds appear in the Dope Sheet view area according to the settings in the Preferences window.

Select Tool, Move Tool, and Scale Tool

In addition to the Dope Sheet tools in the toolbar, the Select Tool, Move Tool, and Scale Tool also are used to manipulate keys in the view area of the Dope Sheet. Because of the hierarchical nature of the Dope Sheet outliner, you can edit groups of attributes by type. This lets you perform powerful timing editing on large numbers of objects at once. See Select Tool, Move Keys Tool, and Scale Keys Tool.

Navigating the view area

To scroll horizontally or vertically in the view area, press (Linux and Windows) or (Mac OS X) and -drag.
To zoom in or out, press or and -drag.
To zoom in on a specific area, press + and drag the area.
To zoom out from a specific area, + and drag the area.