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Inter face
All of the current tags, along with their associated
framenumbers,appearinthewindowatthetop
oftheEditTimedialog.Selectthetagtoedit,then
adjust the controls b elow the window.
Tag Name—Usethisfieldtorenametheselected
tag. You can create a long tag name in this field,
butthetagslotwilldisplayonly15characters.
Time—Letsyouchangethetimewherethetagis
assigned.
Lock T i me —Locks the tag to the current frame,
regardless of subsequent scaling of time. For
example, with L ock Ti me off, if you have a tag
namedFortyatframe40,andyouscaletimeup
200 percent, the Forty tag will b e at frame 80. If
Lock Time is on, the Forty tag remains at fra me 40.
Relative To—Lets you assign another tag to which
the current tag will maintain a relative offset. For
example, if you have a tag at frame 10 calle d First
and you create a second tag at frame 30 called
Second, if you move the position of First to frame
25, S econd will be moved to f rame 45 to maintain
the 20-frame offset b e tween the two tags.
This is a one-way offset. If you changed the time
position of the second tag in the previous example,
thefirsttagisnotaffected.Inaddition,circular
dependencies are not allowed. You c an’t have First
relativetoSecondandSecondrelativetoFirst.
Delete Tag—Deletes the selected tag.
Animation and Time
Controls
Between the status bar and the v iewport navigation
controls are the animation controls, along with
thetimecontrolsforanimationplaybackwithin
view por ts.
Anima tion Controls
Auto Key Animation Mode
(page 3–760)
and Set Key Animat ion Mode (page
3–761)
DefaultIn/OutTangentsForNewKeys
(page 3–764)
Go To Start (page 3–765)
Previous Frame/Key (page 3–766)
Play/Stop (page 3–766)
Next Frame/Key (page 3–767)
Go To End (page 3–767)