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Editing keyframes in the Dope Sheet

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Editing keyframes in the Dope Sheet

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In traditional hand-drawn, or stop-motion animation, the term dope sheet refers to a document that records various types of information for each frame. It's also known as an exposure sheet, or X-sheet, because one type of information it records is camera settings. The dope sheet also records things like lip synchronization information, so that animators can match the timing of pre-recorded dialogue. The Dope Sheet concept translates well into the computer domain. Here it's an editable spreadsheet that displays keyframes in rows and frame numbers in columns. It allows us to manipulate keyframes both individually and hierarchically in groups. I've got keyframes on the camera, so I'll select that and open the Dope Sheet. From the main 3ds Max menu choose Graph Editors, Track View, Dope Sheet. Like the track bar, the Dope Sheet is a timeline running left to right. We see frame numbers down here. But the Dope Sheet is two-dimensional, whereas the track bar is one-dimensional. The physical…

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