Animation Cuts

Cuts in an animation are simply points where the camera pauses for a while. They are inserted automatically when you click on Pause during the interactive recording of an animation, or you can insert them manually into an existing animation.

Inserting pasues into an animation

1. Right click on the frame below where you want to insert the cut.

2. Choose Add Cut from the context menu.

3. Type in the name of the cut, or hit Enter to accept the default name, which will be "CutX", where 'X' is the next available number.

4. This default duration of a cut is 1 second. To alter the duration of this pause, right click on the cut and choose Edit

   The Edit Animation Cut dialog is displayed

   

5. Type in the duration of the pause in seconds.

6. Click OK to set the duration or Cancel to return o JetStream without setting it.