How to delete/clear single frames ?

dream-weaver

I have a scene with 6 frames.
I use the frames only for having slight variations in the scene, so I don't need to create a new scene for every slight change in the head or hands pose.

Now I want to delete or clear some frames in between, so that only the frames are left that I want to use.
How do I do that?

I tried this method:
https://thinkdrawart.com/how-to-save-a-single-frame-in-daz-studio

But as soon as I save a scene after using "restore items", it creates a save file around 100 MB, allthough the orginial save with more frames is only 1.5 MB small.

Is there a simple method to clear/delete frames?

 

 

Faux2D

Does deleting frames work with KeyMate? Personally I always had trouble deleting frames within the main timeline but KeyMate works. Something to be aware while using keymate: all propreties need to be unhidden as in that checkmark needs to be cleared. For instance if you mess around with the translate function on something and that parameter is hidden by default, KeyMate won't clear it.

dream-weaver

To add to my first post, the 100 MB file only happens, when I try to save 2 frames.
If I do exactly as described in the link, choose one of the frames, restore it in frame 0, set the frame number to 1 and save, then I get the usual 1,5 MB scene file.

But when I try to 'move' the last two frames into the 0 and 1 position via the method in the link and reduce all frames to 2 and hit save, it creates a 100 MB file.

I don't understand why.

Anyway, the whole frame thing seems to be too dubious in DAZ.
I guess I really have to save every single pose deviation in a seperate scene, to be on the save side when I want to revisit this scene later.

Faux2D

dream-weaver said:

But when I try to 'move' the last two frames into the 0 and 1 position via the method in the link and reduce all frames to 2 and hit save, it creates a 100 MB file.

I don't understand why.

When you say last two frames what do you mean exactly?

Let's say your timeline has length of 30 frames. How far appart are the 2 frames from 0? if it's at frame 30, even if you didn't mess around with frames 1-29 then frames 1-29 still exist because of interpolation.

Does saving the scene as is without moving any frames still result in a large savefile?

Paradigm

Yes, but it's laggy and slow.

First go to the timeline and find the frame you want to clear. Next Expand All in the Scene tab and pray you don't crash. Next select everything and repeat the prayer. Finally use the timeline dropdown menu and click the "delete keys for selected node" or something like that. After our third prayer is head, violia! Frame cleared.

If you mean literally delete the frames so that yours are directly adjacent to each other, the only way I know to copy poses across frames is to save them as a pose preset and then apply them on the frame you want (then do my steps to delete the frame you don't want).