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Time Slider 749
Pr ocedur es
To move to a specif i c fr a m e in t he a n ima t io n, do one
of the fol lowi ng:
• Drag(scrub)thetimesliderrightorleftuntil
the frame number is displayed on the time
slider.
•
Type the frame number
intothecurrentframefieldinthetimecontrols,
and then press ENTER.
To move ahead or back a frame or a key at a time,
do one of the following:
By default, Key Mode (p age 3–767) is off, and
thesecontrolsmoveaframeatatime.Tomoveby
keys,clicktheKeyModeTogglebutton;thisturns
on Key Mode. When Key Mode is on, the button
looks like this:
• Click the < or > button at either end of the time
slider.
•Pressthe< or > key on the keyboard.
•
When Key Mode is off, click the Next
Frame or Previous Frame button in the time
controls.
•
When Key Mode is on, click the Next
K ey or Previous Key button in the time controls.
To move ahead or back many frames at a time:
• Click in the empty track to either side of the
time slider. The time slider will jump to your
cursor position. This is a faster way of moving
in time than dr aggi ng the time slider.
To move to the f irst or last f rame of the active time
segment:
• Use the time c
ontrol buttons Go To
Start or Go To End.
To display S MPTE time code on the time slider:
• Click Time Configuration in the time
controls, and then under T ime Display , choose
SMPTE.
To display subframes on the time slider:
• Click Time Configuration in the time
controls, and then under Time Display choose
Frames:TICKS or MM:SS:TICKS.
Each frame is div ided into subframes.
To use the time slider to adjust animation, do one of
the following:
• To copy a pose from one frame to another, with
Auto Key on or off, and Set Key off, right-click
thetimeslideranddragtoanewlocation.
The Create K ey dialog appears with Source
Time set to the frame you were on when you
right-clicked, and Destination Time set to the
frametowhichyoumovedthetimeslider.
Toggle the Position, Rotation, and Scale check
boxes as necessar y and then click OK to create
akeyatthedestinationframefortheposeat
thesourceframe.
• In Set Key mode, if you have posed your
character on the wrong frame, right-click and
dragthetimeslider.Theposeismovedintime
to the new time slider position. Click the Set
Key button to set the keys.
To scrub the animation with the mouse but without
dra gging:
1.
Go to Customize > Customize User Interface.
On the Keybo ard panel, click in the Action
list and then press the T keytojumptothe
T section. Scroll down to find Time Slider
CaptureToggleandclickit.
2. Click the Hotkey field and then press a
keyboard combination to assign as a keyboard