Operation Manual

234 Creating Animations
Keyframe duration
Keyframe duration represents the amount of time
in between each individual keyframe. The value is
set according to how the keyframe was created, i.e.
• Inserting keyframes (blank or otherwise)
lets you set the keyframe duration in an
Insert Keyframes dialog (default 1
second).
• A splitting operation will create new
keyframes whose duration will be a
division of the selected keyframe's
duration (by the number of keyframes to
be split).
A keyframe's duration can be altered manually at any time.
To set the duration of an individual keyframe:
• Click the keyframe's duration (e.g., 1500ms) under its thumbnail, and,
when selected, type a new value then click away.
The total duration of your animation is shown on your last keyframe,
e.g. (5.0s).
Storyboard control
Storyboard control is possible by using a selection of buttons grouped together
on the Storyboard tab (equivalent options are on the Storyboard menu). They
operate across the entire storyboard, as opposed to on an individual keyframe or
key object.
Break
storyboard
Breaks the animation run that transects through a selected
keyframe into two separate runs.