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Animation Curves Window
 
 
 

You perform most animation operations in the Animation Curves window.

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(a) Start of current shot  (b) Positioner  (c) End of current shot  (d) Animation curve  (e) Trimmed frames  

The Animation Curves window is made up of the following elements.

Current Frame positionerA vertical yellow line represents the current frame position.

Start and end of current shotVertical thick grey lines represent the start and end of the current shot. If the shot is trimmed, the trimmed handles are greyed out.

Trimmed framesIf you trimmed frames from the current shot, these frames are greyed out before or after the shot.

Animation curvesSelected curves are white. Deselected curves are black.

Navigating in the Animation Curves Window

Using the Animation Curves window, you can go directly to any frame for the current shot, or you can go directly to previous or next keyframes. The Current Frame positioner always moves to reflect your new frame position in the current shot.

To move to any frame in the Animation Curves window:

  1. Drag in the Shot timebar to scrub between frames in the current shot.

    The Current Frame positioner moves in sync with the timebar positioners.

    TipYou can also use the playback controls to navigate through the Animation Curves window.

To move between keyframes:

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Click Next to move to the next keyframe.
    • Click Previous to move to the previous keyframe.

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    (a) Previous button  (b) Next button  

Panning and Zooming the Animation Curves Window

You can pan and zoom the Animation Curves window using the mouse. Do this when you need to see a part of the window that is not visible.

To pan the Animation Curves window:

  1. Middle-click and drag to pan the Animation Curves window view horizontally or vertically.

To zoom the Animation Curves window view:

  1. Do one of the following:
    • To zoom horizontally, hold down the right mouse button and drag to the right to increase the zoom factor and to the left to decrease it.
    • To zoom vertically, hold down the right mouse button and drag up to increase the zoom factor and down to decrease it.
    TipHold down Alt while dragging to centre the zoom at the point where you began dragging.