Animation keyframe editing question

phillip_d2180e76

I really need help i've searched on line for an answer but nothing really is completely relavant to what i want to achieve.

I  have 19 key frames that play out over 3 seconds i want all of them to play out in only 1 second. yes i have animate 2 and it's installed. yes i know how to move keyframes in the keyframe editor advacned mode. but do i really need to individually move every node ?

MegonNoel

At the bottom of the timeline where there is a little box that says FPS (frames per second), change it to 19 and see if that helps. I could be misunderstanding what you're doing but if you just want it to play 19 frames in a second that should work. Granted my animation experience isn't entirely in DS so I could be missing something about what you're trying to do, but it's a place to start. 

phillip_d2180e76

OMG thank you so much for responding i'll try what your saying but ..... i have already set keyframes in the timeline and they are distributed over 3 seconds. I want to reposition those keyframes to apear in order over only 1 second. when i try to change the stuff you mentioned it just makes the animation shorter i think i'll be back after trying your suggestion..

 

WendyLuvsCatz

pity box select and hold ctrl and stretch it doesn't work like Carrara can

yeah I just changed the fps myself which D|S actually can do to almost any number not just standard fps conventions

phillip_d2180e76

yep changing the number of frames only cuts off all the keyframes that lay outside of that frame of reference.  i'm just trying to move all the keyframs into the time  frame of 1 second instead of distributed over 3

 

MegonNoel

Oh, I was thinking you had 19 total frames that you had keyed and wanted it to play over 1 second. I think I understand now. How many frames do you have in total?

Ivy

phillip_d2180e76 said:

I really need help i've searched on line for an answer but nothing really is completely relavant to what i want to achieve.

I  have 19 key frames that play out over 3 seconds i want all of them to play out in only 1 second. yes i have animate 2 and it's installed. yes i know how to move keyframes in the keyframe editor advacned mode. but do i really need to individually move every node ?

Unfortunately with daz you can't fix this when you baked your animation into the timeline. it is what it is. ,  You'll have to start over .

But If the animation is not baked you can cut and paste each keyframe one at a time and move them where you need to. to shorten the over all keyframed animation. But if you try copy then paste the animation into a new timeline setup  as a whole animations string, it will properly give you the same 3 seconds or 90 keyframes that the original animation was copy after. 

So if it was me. I would save your first, middle and last key frames as a pose presets, and try to rebuild the animation over to the proper keyframe length required. 

. Lastly if your looking to speed up the animation you have & is the reason for shorten its length.   there is something you can try.   you could save the work you currently have as a aniblock and the when you reuse the aniblock  you can speed up or shorten the animation cycle using Animate2 by using the aniblock speed settings,  then rebake the animation in the timelineto make a 90 keyframe animation, shorten to 30 keyframes.  but be aware the animation will be much faster than the original set up. One of the draw backs of daz stuido timeline. is the ability to move baked keyframes

Sorry i can't be  more encouraging or have more help to offer.