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Motion Mixer Toolbar 643
Add Bipeds—Opens the Bipeds dialog listing
all the bipeds in the scene. Highlight one or
several bipeds to load 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 wan t to add
are not next to one another, hold down the
Ct rl
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 clip s.
Move Clips—Allows selection and movement
(including
Shi f t +Clone)ofbipedsand
trackgroups, keeping clips and transitions intact.
It also allows independent horizontal movement
of clips on the same track or ver tical 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 right
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 z ero when
the t ranslation is complete.
Fr ame—Displays the frame number under the
cursor during inte ractive 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 w ill have.
Trim Clips—Clips can be t r immed f rom 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 portions of
clipsintheMotionMixerasgray.SeeAdjusting
Clip Timing (page 2–615).