Moving Frames

[LurkerAbove]

Hi all,

 

I've found myself bogged by the move frames dialog. Can someone give a quick rundown on this? What's Before and After entries for? What's the Offset and Scale for? Or is there a portion of the manual I'm just missing?

[robcat2075]

I'd forgotten about this... I think it's a hold over from before the timeline was as good as it is now.

Before settings: the beginnign and end times of the section you want to move

 

After settings: where you want them to end up

 

Offset: another way of saying how far you want to move the keyframes + or -

 

Scale: to stretch (>100%) or compress (

 

 

 

but really, it's much, much easier to group select keyframes in the timeline and slide them manually.

[LurkerAbove]

I'd forgotten about this... I think it's a hold over from before the timeline was as good as it is now.

Before settings: the beginnign and end times of the section you want to move

 

After settings: where you want them to end up

 

Offset: another way of saying how far you want to move the keyframes + or -

 

Scale: to stretch (>100%) or compress (<100%) them. 100% means no stretch.

 

 

 

but really, it's much, much easier to group select keyframes in the timeline and slide them manually.

 

What, just move them around? No way!!! I have to try this out. I found out all the cool things when I can't try them out.

[LurkerAbove]

Okay, I'm missing something, or I'm not being clear in what I want to do, because when I played a bit with the timeline, I didn't see how to insert frames.

 

The ability to move frames was pretty cool, but I don't see how to select multiple frames and must insert them anywhere. Is that where you still use the dialog box?

 

Thanks in advance.

[robcat2075]

In my test the dialog box was not able to move keyframes past keyframes that i intended to leave in place.

 

Well, it did move them, but the in-place frames disappeared.

 

If you need to move a keyframe past another:

 

select the object

set the time marker to the frame

Edit>cut Keyframe

 

set the time marker to the new frame

edit>paste keyframe

 

(Using the cut and paste in the right-click menu doesn't seem to work)

 

To cut and paste multiple keyframes that span over time, you need to cut and paste those individually, or go to the curve editor (aka Channel Editor):

movingframes.mov

[LurkerAbove]

In my test the dialog box was not able to move keyframes past keyframes that i intended to leave in place.

 

Well, it did move them, but the in-place frames disappeared.

 

If you need to move a keyframe past another:

 

select the object

set the time marker to the frame

Edit>cut Keyframe

 

set the time marker to the new frame

edit>paste keyframe

 

(Using the cut and paste in the right-click menu doesn't seem to work)

 

To cut and paste multiple keyframes that span over time, you need to cut and paste those individually, or go to the curve editor (aka Channel Editor):

 

Wow, even a .mov file! Thanks for your help.