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If you drop them onto the viewpoint animation icon itself, then the viewpoints will become frames at the
end of the animation, but you can drop the viewpoints anywhere on the expanded animation to put them
where you wish.
5 At this point, you can use the Playback Position slider on the Playback panel of the Animation tab to move
backward and forward through the viewpoint animation to see how it looks.
6 You can edit any of the viewpoints inside the viewpoint animation (see “
Edit Viewpoints” on page 284 for
details on this), or you can add more viewpoints, delete them, move them around, add cuts, and
edit the
animation itself
until you are happy with the viewpoint animation.
7 Once you have several viewpoint animations, you can drag and drop them onto a master viewpoint animation
to compose more complex combinations of animations, just like dragging and dropping viewpoints onto
an animation as a frame.
To edit a viewpoint animation
1 If necessary, display the Saved Viewpoints window (click View tab ➤ Workspace panel ➤ Windows
drop-down ➤ Saved Viewpoints).
2 In the Saved Viewpoints window, right-click the viewpoint animation you want to modify and select Edit.
3 In the Edit Animation dialog box, in the Duration text box, type the desired duration in seconds.
4 If you want the viewpoint animation to play continuously, select the Loop Playback check box.
5 From the Smoothing drop-down list, select the type of smoothing you want the viewpoint animation to
use.
None means that the camera will move from one frame to the next without any attempt at smoothing out
the corners.
Synchronize Angular/Linear Speeds will smooth the differences between the speeds of each frame in the
animation, resulting in a less jerky animation.
6 Click OK.
To insert cuts (pauses) into a viewpoint animation
1 If necessary, display the Saved Viewpoints window (click View tab ➤ Workspace panel ➤ Windows
drop-down ➤ Saved Viewpoints).
2 Below the animation frame where you want to insert the cut, right-click and select Add Cut.
3 Type in the name of the cut, or press Enter to accept the default name, which will be “CutX”, where “X”
is the next available number.
4 The default duration of a cut is 1 second. To alter the duration of this pause, right-click the cut and select
Edit.
5 In the Edit Animation Cut dialog box, in the Delay text box, type the desired duration of the pause in
seconds.
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