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Deleting or Rippling Keyframes

You can delete keyframes individually or by stroke/shape, or use the ripple function to change a keyframe and apply that same relative adjustment to the point across a range of frames.

To delete a keyframe

1.   Using the Viewer timeline, scrub to the frame where you want to delete a keyframe.
2.   In the stroke/shape list, select the stroke/shape whose key you want to delete.
3.   Do one of the following:

If you want to delete a key that is set to animate the entire stroke/shape, right-click on the stroke/shape and select delete key > all.

If you want to delete a key that is set to animate a position, right-click on the stroke/shape and select delete key > spline.

If you want to delete a key that is set to animate a transformation, right-click on the stroke/shape and select delete key > transform.

If you want to delete a key that is set to animate attributes, right-click on the stroke/shape and select delete key > attributes.

If no other keys are set for the selected stroke/shape, the frame marker on the timeline turns from blue to the default color.

To delete all keyframes for a stroke/shape

You can also delete all key frames you’ve set for a stroke/shape at one go. Do the following:

1.   Select the stroke/shape from which you want to delete key frames in the Viewer.
2.   Right-click on the stroke/shape and select no animation > all, spline, transform or attribute depending on whether you want to delete all key frames for that stroke/shape or only key frames animating shape, transform or attributes. All key frames are removed from the stroke/shape you selected.

To ripple keyframes

Rippling keyframes allows you to adjust the position of a stroke/shape point on one frame and have that same relative adjustment applied to the point across all frames or a specified range of frames. This way, you can make non-animated changes to a stroke/shape which is being animated over a set of frames.

1.   Activate Select All tool in the RotoPaint toolbar and click the ripple edit button in the RotoPaint tool settings. A red border displays around the Viewer to indicate that the ripple mode is active. In the dropdown menu next to ripple edit , select:

all - to ripple all frames in your sequence.

from start - to ripple frames from the first frame to the current frame.

to end - to ripple frames from current frame to the last frame.

range - to ripple a particular range of frames.

2.   Select the stroke/shape you want to edit from the stroke/shape list.
3.   Make the necessary changes to the stroke/shape in the Viewer.