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Curve Editor 507

Horizontal line at the top of the illustration is the moveable

scale origin line.

Curve Editor

Menu bar > Graph Editors > Curve Editor

Menu bar > Graph Editors > New Track View > Modes >

Curve Editor

Maintoolbar>CurveEditor(Open)

Right-click the selected object in the vie wport. > Curve

Editor

The Track View - Curve Editor is a Track View

mode that allows you to work w ith motion

expressedasfunctioncurvesonagraph. Itlets

you visualize the interpolation of the motion, the

object transformations that the software creates

between the keyframes. You can easily see and

control the motion and animation of the objects in

the scene using tangent handles on the keys found

on the curves.

TheCurveEditorinterfaceconsistsofamenubar,

a toolbar, a Controller window, and a Key window.

There is also a time ruler, and navigation and

status tools at the bottom of the interface.

You can loop or cycle your anima tion beyond its

range by adding Parameter Curve Out-Of-Range

Types from the Curve Editor, as well as by adding

Multiplier or Ease Curve onto other ani mated

tracks for added control.

Tip: You can a lso click S how Curves in the

track bar to display function c u rves.