I have an animation with 4600 frames in it, the last 100 I want to save as an own .anme file without the first 4500 frames, is it possible to do that?
I tried to use the "rescale keyframes" but without success, is there a way to do it without manually move all keyframes between frame 4500 and 4600 on every layer and delete all from frame 0 to 4499?
cut out the last frames
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Well...
I played around a bit...
I won't guarantee this will work since I only tested it on a short sequence...
Using "Rescale Keyframes"...
1. Check the "Rescale entire document" checkbox
2. Set the start frame/end frame to 1 -- 4499
3. Set the new start frame/new end frame to 1 -- 1
4. Click okay
Stand back! With the pressure required to squash 4500 frames down to 1 frame there could be an explosion.
Just kidding... but you get the idea. Your are "squashing" the first 4499 frames down to just one frame.
In my experiment the frames after those frames (in your case 4500-4600) moved down the time line.
There is still one extra keyframe at the end of the process at frame 2. Don't know why... minor inconvenience if this works.
EDIT:
I know why there is an "extra" key frame! You squashed those other "unwanted" frames down to one frame on frame 1. The second key frame would be frame 4500... which you want to keep.
If there is no key frame precisely at frame 4500... it will leave a gap from frame 1 to whatever the next key frame was after 4500... play around with it and see if this works for you.
-vern
I played around a bit...
I won't guarantee this will work since I only tested it on a short sequence...
Using "Rescale Keyframes"...
1. Check the "Rescale entire document" checkbox
2. Set the start frame/end frame to 1 -- 4499
3. Set the new start frame/new end frame to 1 -- 1
4. Click okay
Stand back! With the pressure required to squash 4500 frames down to 1 frame there could be an explosion.
Just kidding... but you get the idea. Your are "squashing" the first 4499 frames down to just one frame.
In my experiment the frames after those frames (in your case 4500-4600) moved down the time line.
There is still one extra keyframe at the end of the process at frame 2. Don't know why... minor inconvenience if this works.
EDIT:
I know why there is an "extra" key frame! You squashed those other "unwanted" frames down to one frame on frame 1. The second key frame would be frame 4500... which you want to keep.
If there is no key frame precisely at frame 4500... it will leave a gap from frame 1 to whatever the next key frame was after 4500... play around with it and see if this works for you.
-vern
Ohhh yes, it worked as you said, at frame 2 I got the starting frame for what I wanted to keep, I think everything was there, the only missing part that I forgot was a couple of cycles I made, they were gone...but so what they were easy to recap
Thank you sooo much heyvern, it saved me a lot of time!!
there were one more thing, when I set new start frame 1 / end frame 1, the end frame jumps to end frame 2 just before the dialog closes, I guess AS don't want to squeze everything into just one frame
Thank you sooo much heyvern, it saved me a lot of time!!
there were one more thing, when I set new start frame 1 / end frame 1, the end frame jumps to end frame 2 just before the dialog closes, I guess AS don't want to squeze everything into just one frame
I just noticed that "jump" to frame 2.
I wasn't watching closely and never noticed I was clicking "Okay" twice... I figured I just "missed" the button and clicked it again.
This is as close to a "crop tool" as we got at the moment.
I wonder if some scripters out there could whip up a time line crop tool?
p.s. Whatever you do... don't try going the "other way". If you try this trick to crop off the other end of an animation... well... at least for me... it locks up AS(Moho). I am still using Moho 5.3 on Mac most of the time... so YMMV.
-vern
I wasn't watching closely and never noticed I was clicking "Okay" twice... I figured I just "missed" the button and clicked it again.
This is as close to a "crop tool" as we got at the moment.
I wonder if some scripters out there could whip up a time line crop tool?
p.s. Whatever you do... don't try going the "other way". If you try this trick to crop off the other end of an animation... well... at least for me... it locks up AS(Moho). I am still using Moho 5.3 on Mac most of the time... so YMMV.
-vern