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536 Chapter 12: Animation
Procedure
To slide a selection of k eys:
1. Click Slide Keys on the Track View
toolbar.
2. Highlight one or more keys.
3. Drag to slide the k eys to the right.
Thekeysfollowingyourselectionmoveto
account for the offset produced by sliding the
keys.
4. Highlight another group of keys.
5. Hold Shift while dragging to slide the keys to
the right.
The keys following your selection move to the
right by the length of t i me occupied by the
cloned keys.
Scale K eys - Time
TrackView>CurveEditororDopeSheet>TrackView
toolbar > Scale Keys
Track V iew > Curve Editor or Dope Sheet > Keys menu >
Scale Keys - Time
Scale Keys - Time moves all selected keys
proportionally toward or away from the current
frame. Use the Scale Keys button in either mode to
change the location and amount of time covered
by one or more selected keys.
The scale center is defined by the current t ime set
bythetimeslider.Youcanscalekeysaboutany
moment in t ime by dragging the t ime slider before
you use Sca le Keys.
Procedure
To use Scale Keys:
1.
Select an animated object in the v iewp ort, then
right-click and choose Curve Editor.
The following steps work in either Curve Editor
or Dope Sheet mo des.
2. Dragthetimeslidertothetimeyouwanttouse
as the scale center.
3. Click Scale Keys or from the Keys menu
choose Scale Keys - T ime.
4. Highlight one or more keys.
5. Drag to scale t he selected keys or press and
hold SHIFT and drag to add scaled copies of
the selected keys.
Drag away from or toward the current time line
for the following results:
• Dragging away expands the keys from the
current time. Expandi ng the sele ction
increases time between the selected keys and
slowsthatpartoftheanimation.