shifting keyframes

doppel · Post by **doppel** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:53 pm

let's say you've created a project, and you decide that somewhere in the middle you want some scene or camera move to last longer. How do I insert extra keyframes in the middle so that it will push the rest of the keyframes back, essentially lengthening the project from the middle?

Nolan Scott · Post by **Nolan Scott** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:31 am

Well, select all your keyframes you would like to move
(draw a marquee) and drag them into the new position.

Cheers
Nolan

doppel · Post by **doppel** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:08 am

yeah, sorry I didn't specify. I knew I could select and drag the keyframes, but what if I have like 500 keyframes that need to be moved? Is there no way to just select a frame and add extra frames right there so that all the keyframes after it shift back?

Nolan Scott · Post by **Nolan Scott** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:36 am

As far as I know, I presume you might have to select
all your 500 keyframes manually.

Cheers
Nolan

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:49 am

There seems to be a slight bug in the "rescale keyframes" command... but you could still use it for this.

Here is the bug... you can't offset the frames WITHOUT scaling.

So... if the start frame is say... 24 and the end frame is 60 you can't change the new start and end to 36 and 72... it does something very strange...

What I do instead is do it in two steps... set the new start and end to one frame offset...

here is a simple example moveing a group of frames 12 frames foward:

start frame: -----------> 24 _____ end frame: ------------> 60
New start frame: ----> 36 _____ new end frame: -----> 73

Okay... this is not what you want really... but now you can just scale down that segment to what you wanted...

start frame: -----------> 36 _____ end frame: ------------> 73
New start frame: ----> 36 _____ new end frame: -----> 72

This could be a workaround until the rescale keyframe gets fixed.

I use it everyonce in a while... especially when there is HUGE chunk of keyframes to move around.

PLUS! You can scale the WHOLE document with this. Keys in bone layers and all the channels etc can be moved at once. Or you can pick and choose.

-Vern

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:15 pm

heyvern wrote:So... if the start frame is say... 24 and the end frame is 60 you can't change the new start and end to 36 and 72... it does something very strange...

...REALLY STRANGE, YEAH! I've tryed it and my Moho is still dead

, and I think this could be a "recent" bug cause I remember that I had done it lots of times in the past without any problem... Hmmm, I think you should expose your own new bug in the "Bug Reports" section to be sure LM knows about it... CIAO!