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Play the animation in the viewpor t using the
Play button or the / key.
The animation will play once and stop.
To play your a nimation in multiple viewpor ts:
1.
In the T ime Configuration > Playback group,
turn off Active Viewport Only. Click OK.
2. Play your animation.
The animation now plays in all four viewports.
To use sub-frame a nimation:
1.
IntheTimeConfiguration>Time
Display group, turn on FRAME:TICKS or
MM:SS:TICKS. Click OK.
2. Movethetimeslidertosetkeyframesin
between keys.
Tip: Use this when you scale an animation down
from a longer length to insure that you won’t
lose any keys. You can then move the keys to
frames and revert to frames without ticks.
To play an animation with sound:
• IntheTimeConfiguration>Playbackgroup,
besureyouhaveRealTimeturnedon.IfReal
Time is not on, the sound will not play back
during the animation.
Inter face
ThesearethecontrolsfortheTimeConfiguration
dialog . You can display this dialog by right-clicking
any of the time control buttons to the right of the
Auto Key button.
Frame Rate group
These four option buttons, labeled
NTSC (page
3–1074)
,Film, PAL (page 3–1082) ,andCustom
letyousetthe
frame rate (p age 3–1038) in
fram es-per-second (FPS). T he first three buttons
force the standard FPS for that choice. The Custom
button lets you specify your own FPS by adjusting
the spinner.
FP S (Frames Per Second)—Sets the frame rate of
youranimationinFramesperSecond.Useframe
ratesof30fpsforvideo,24forfilm,andlowerrates
for web and m edia animations.
Time Display group
Specifies the method for displaying time in the
time slider and throughout the program. Choices
are Frames or in minutes, seconds and ticks.
Specifies the method for displaying time in the
time slider and throughout the program (in
frames,inSMPTE,inframesand
ticks (page
3–1115)
, or in minutes, seconds, and ticks).