Animation chunks

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00

Hi Team, I am currently making an animation which I am doing in chunks of 60 frames for each scene and I have rendered the first scene successfully. Now, to start the next 60 second scene I want the last frame of the first scene to be the first frame of my next scene, I hope I am explaining this okay.

I have tried to copy the last keyframe to the first but that doesn't seem to work. I've tried deleting all of the kayframes in the timeline except the last one but that doesn't work either. I am currently looking at a way to save the last keyframe only, so I can open it up again in a new project where it should become the first frame. I think....no luck with that anyway.

I know I can simply reset the timeline to go from frame 60 to frame 120 but if I keep doing that my timeline is going to become enormous!

If you're still with me, thank you.

If you can help, an even bigger thank you

Richard Haseltine

What is the issue tyou are having? If it's that the interpolation doesn't match, you may want to copy across the last few frames of the first animation to get everything set up for a smooth continuation.

WendyLuvsCatz

your definition of enormous is anything more than 2 seconds of animation?

my timelines average 1800 frames which is a minute, I go up to 10K sometimes

it seems like a lot of work joining 2 second segments together, I mean I often render just 2 seconds (60 frames at a time) myself but I still set the whole animation on the timeline first.

then I can continue on fro different camera angles if I want to too

margrave

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00 said:

Hi Team, I am currently making an animation which I am doing in chunks of 60 frames for each scene and I have rendered the first scene successfully. Now, to start the next 60 second scene I want the last frame of the first scene to be the first frame of my next scene, I hope I am explaining this okay.

I have tried to copy the last keyframe to the first but that doesn't seem to work. I've tried deleting all of the kayframes in the timeline except the last one but that doesn't work either. I am currently looking at a way to save the last keyframe only, so I can open it up again in a new project where it should become the first frame. I think....no luck with that anyway.

I know I can simply reset the timeline to go from frame 60 to frame 120 but if I keep doing that my timeline is going to become enormous!

If you're still with me, thank you.

If you can help, an even bigger thank you

Save yourself the headache: create poses first and then load those into the timeline as keyframes. That way, rather than trying to drag keyframes (which is an absolute hassle) you can just start fresh and load the last keyframe pose you used.

If you save as a Pose Preset, it'll give you the option to just save out the current frame.

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00

Hi Richard

All I want is to save the final scene pose without all of the previous keyframes so I can open it in a new project/timeline and continue with the next scene, it saves me opening a new project and reposing the figures to the same as the last frame on previous. So, I open the saved "static scene" without any animation keyframes on the timeline and I can continue with the storyline from where I left off.

Sorry, don't know how best to explain it

How about this

I have 2 characters meeting and shaking hands. The very last frame is them with hands together. This is 60 frames worth (To safeguard rendering errors) I render.

Now I want to move on to the second scene which starts with hands togeter and continues with them finishing the handshake and moving on

So how do I get the shaking hands scene/pose to the beginning of a new timeline? Every time I save a scene or scene subset it saves all of the keyframes with it, I only want to save the final frame to open up again in a new timeline

Thanks

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00

PS. As I've said, I know I can simply reset the timeline to go from frame 60 to frame 120 but if I keep doing that my timeline is going to become enormous!

:(

Ascania

Here's the thing, just doing the basics - selecting the figure and saving a pose preset - already gives you the option of saving the whole animation or only the currently selected frame, with the currently selected frame being the default. So just doing the basics already accomplishes all you are asking for here.

So WHAT is it you actually fail to do?

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00

WendyLuvsCatz said:

your definition of enormous is anything more than 2 seconds of animation?

my timelines average 1800 frames which is a minute, I go up to 10K sometimes

it seems like a lot of work joining 2 second segments together, I mean I often render just 2 seconds (60 frames at a time) myself but I still set the whole animation on the timeline first.

then I can continue on fro different camera angles if I want to too

Cool, I thought I might be doing it wrong, if all else fails I will comply :)

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00

Margrave and Ascania, thank you for that but I have 2 characters and a street scene. I have tried selecting all and saving current keyframe pose, delete all keyframes and open the saved poses but it doesn't do anything, I just have the intitial first frame.

Do I have to select each character in turn and save as Pose Preset rather than try to do the whole scene?

I'll try that now.

margrave

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00 said:

Margrave and Ascania, thank you for that but I have 2 characters and a street scene. I have tried selecting all and saving current keyframe pose, delete all keyframes and open the saved poses but it doesn't do anything, I just have the intitial first frame.

Do I have to select each character in turn and save as Pose Preset rather than try to do the whole scene?

I'll try that now.

Pose Presets work on a figure-by-figure basis. You need to select the figure in question before saving their individual pose preset.

malcolmkarpeta_40f9af0b00

Margrave and Ascania, it worked! Not as difficult as I thought it would be, many thanks