Sunday, April 13, 2008

Lesson 8 - Manipulate Keyframe on the Timeline


If u want to move the 'Key' on the time line. By moving the cursor to left and right does'nt help.



'Hold the Shift' and 'press the left mouse button' on the time line, You can see a 'red box' instead of the cursor. and you can see a yellow line instead of a red line on the keyframe, it tell us that the Key is now the part of the selection.


Now we can able to move the key anywhere we want.


If you want to Deselect, click anywhere on the timeline.


If you want to Scale the key frames..(not the value), Say we want to select two keys and scale it to the right side. 'Shift' + 'Click' and bring the red box and drag it towards the right, still holding the shift.



Now we selected the keys (even we can see yellow bar instead of red on the Key), we can move the Selected are by moving right or left.
NOTE: you have to hold the 'two arrow' in the middle to move. You can see the Key position is moving too.


If we need to Scale our Keys, then you should click the outer arrows and drag towares right or left to Scale the keys, notice the keys changing place on 1 and 2.


After you Scaled the keys and deselect it, You can see the Key position, Its not exactly on the number. we can 'Snap' those keys to keep it in the right position. So for Snapping...


just simply select those key frames again and right click and say 'snap'.



Now you can see the keyframes are snaped in the number.

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