Editing Animations

Once an animation is recorded, you can edit it to set the duration, the type of smoothing and whether it loops or not.

Editing an animation

1. Right click on the animation you want to edit in the Viewpoints control bar.

   The Edit Animation dialog is displayed

   

2. Type in the duration in seconds in the Duration edit box.

3. If you want the animation to play back continuously, check the Loop Playback check box.

4. From the Smoothing drop down, select the type of smoothing you want the animation to use. None means that the camera will move from one frame to the next without any attempt at smoothing out the corners. The speed of movement between frames of an animation is dictated by the angular and linear speeds of the individual frames and so choosing Synchronise angular/linear speeds will smooth the differences between the speeds of each frame in the animation, resulting in a less jerky animation.

5. Click OK to set these options, or Cancel to return to JetStream leaving the animation as it was.

There is also nothing to stop you copying animations (hold down the Control key when dragging an animation in the Viewpoints control bar), dragging frames off the animation into a blank space on the Viewpoints control bar to remove them from the animation, editing individual frames attributes, inserting cuts or dragging other viewpoints or animations onto the existing one, to continue developing your animations.