Remove Entire section of frames

[kiddlepuff]

I have an animation scene I'd like to re-use, but I'd like to cut out the first 300 frames. Kinda like After Effects where you trim out the part you want.

The simplest way seems to be just changing the starting frame, without dragging all the animated keyframes over one at a time from all the layers. I'm hoping there is an easier, more organized way to do this.

[slowtiger]

Change timeline to sequence view and move the layer which contains your whole animation.

[kiddlepuff]

Unfortunately doesn't include camera actions, but definately helps. Thankyou for the response.

[slowtiger]

Sometimes, when I want to re-use only a certain part of a scene, but am too lazy to correctly erase hundreds of frames and shift the useful keys, I just duplicate the scene and start at frame 500 or whatevver, and render from there.

[hayasidist]

or ..

set the current frame to be where you want to start - say 301; and work out how many frames you want to keep - say until frame 500

check to see if there are channels with interpolated values at your start frame (e.g. camera key at frames 290 and 310 but not at 301), and add keyframes at 301 as necessary; same again for the end frame

delete animation from document before current frame

rescale keyframes for entire document - (e.g.) new start frame at 1 and end at 200 using frames from 301 to 500.

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Or, if you use a compositor, just render the required sequence as ST suggests/

If you also wanted to make changes to one or more layers, then you have a number of options such as: copy then edit the copied file and render the sequence; or render in (groups of) layers and create the new layers in a separate file (with matching camera actions) then composite by depth as well as by time...

[vickyarlidge]

I'm having a similar problem. I'd like to delete a section of the animation, which is in the middle of the animation. How do I select a certain amount of frames and them delete them? Also, is it possible to do the opposite? i.e. Is there a way of inserting a selection of blank frames into the middle of an animation?

[slowtiger]

The latter is possible via menu > animation > rescale keyframes.