Scaling a set of keys

[Simon Wicker]

if you can't alter things in the timeline and you are dealing with a finished chunk of animation you can always adjust the rendered frame rate to increase the length of the animation (i.e. go from 25 to 50 fps in the render settings to halve the speed of the animation).

cheers, simon w.

[ChrisCousins]

Thanks Simon, that makes sense.
Cheers - Chris

if you can't alter things in the timeline and you are dealing with a finished chunk of animation you can always adjust the rendered frame rate to increase the length of the animation (i.e. go from 25 to 50 fps in the render settings to halve the speed of the animation).

cheers, simon w.

[LucentDreams]

use object and document tracks, instead of region tools.

If you need to scale several objects don't select their position scale and rotation tracks, just collapse all those and deal with their object tracks, this will reflect all their tracks and when scaled will equally scale all their individual animation tracks. The document track allows you to actually adjust your entire scenes animation on a single track too. to rescale a whole animation form 300 to 600 you select the document track which should select all keys on that track, then simply drag the right handle of the orange selection handle in time area to 600.

[Per-Anders]

Also you might try the powerslider instead of the main timeline, just select the range with all your keys, then use the edit->fill command to make it expand to fill the whole time in one go (rather than dragging the handles to scale the contents, which wile giving you the most control will be slower).

[ChrisCousins]

Also you might try the powerslider instead of the main timeline, just select the range with all your keys, then use the edit->fill command to make it expand to fill the whole time in one go (rather than dragging the handles to scale the contents, which wile giving you the most control will be slower).

Thanks for the advice people - all good stuff, and I didn't know anything about the powerslider commands, that's a really handy tip.

Good advice too about collapsing the hierarchy - however with these files I had around 400 objects, all with baked PSR dynamics over 300 frames - even collapsed under a single null this causes Cinema to lock up when dragging the document sliders, .

Anyway - in this case it turned out Simon's tip worked a treat, so cheers for that!

C

[LucentDreams]

not under a null, I mean the actual animation tracks collapsed, not the hierarchy, and then using the document track, the document track should be faster than any other option.

[ChrisCousins]

not under a null, I mean the actual animation tracks collapsed, not the hierarchy, and then using the document track, the document track should be faster than any other option.

Just to clarify - do you mean like this?

http://www.chriscousins.plus.com/temp/slider.gif

If I try to drag this Cinema hangs for around a minute, on OSX at any rate.

[gildattack]

question. If you scale up the whole thing, what happens with the in-between frames (as they are baked? Do they get interpolated? If not, i would double the frame rate and stretch the movie length afterwards...

[Zendorf]

Chris, just select View>Goto Main Level and you will see "Document" as the top parent node with everything else parented below it. Select Document to rescale all objects. Tis a beautiful feature of r10 :thumbsup:

[LucentDreams]

thanks zendorf, I was busy making a pic, fits well with what you wrote.

http://www.kaithestuffguy.com/maxontemp/document.jpg

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