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Add B ipeds—Opens the Bipeds dialog listing
all the bipeds in the scene. Highlight one or
several bipeds to lo ad them into the Motion Mixer
window.
Tip: You can click-drag over all, or several adjacent
bipeds in the list if you want to add multiple bipeds
to the Motion Mixer. If the bipeds you want to add
are not next to one another, hold down the CTRL
key while choosing the bipeds you want to add.
Delete—Deletes a selected biped from the
Motion Mixer window .
Select—Lets you select bipeds, trackgroups,
tracks, and clips.
Move Clips—Allows selection and movement
(including SHIFT+Clone) of bipeds and
trackgroups, keeping clips and transitions intact.
It also allows independent horizontal movement
of clips on the same track or vertical movement
ofclipsfromonebiped’stracktoanotherbiped’s
track.
Slide Clips—Allows horizontal movement of
clips on the same track or vertical movement of
clipsfromonebiped’stracktoanotherbiped’s
track . Sliding a clip to the right will move
unselected clips which are situated to the ri ght
of the selected clip; sliding to the left will move
unselected clips which sit to the left of the clip.
Offset—Records how many frames have been
displaced. This value appears in the status
area next to Slide Clips only during interactive
translations, such as moving a clip or editing a
time warp. The Offset value resets to zero when
the translation is complete.
Fr am e —Displays the fra me number under the
cursor during interactive translations, such as
stretching a clip or editing a time warp. When
stretching a clip, you can use both the Frame and
Offset fields to tell you how many more or fewer
frames the clip will have.
Trim Clips—Clips can be trimmed from their
original lengths interactively. When using this
mode, you can grab the edge of a clip and drag it
to a new frame within the clip’s original length.
This mode will display all trimmed por tions of
clipsintheMotionMixerasgray.See
Adjusting
Clip Timing (page 2–591)
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