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  • Manual Bezier Handles in Graph editor

    Posted by Terry Hahin on August 10, 2006 at 5:44 pm

    Hello,
    I saw a similar post to this question but am a little dumbfounded by the conversation that took place.

    I am working in the graph editor and cannot view ANY position keyframe bezier handles in either 2d or 3d space. Yet the manual refers specifically to using bezier handles, and manipulating them manually in the graph editor, but I cannot view these handles no matter how I interpolate the key frames.

    Am I nuts or are other people having these problems? If it really is simply impossible, as the previous thread I read implies, I really don’t see any benifit to this upgrade in 7.0. In fact it seems much worse, as I have no ability to tweak camera movements, which was mildly awkward but still quite doable in 6.5.

    Anyone out there have a solution?

    Thanks in advance,
    Terry

    Steve Roberts replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Mylenium

    August 10, 2006 at 7:04 pm

    Isolate all channels using expressions and tweak the separate curves. Other than that there is no way to tweak position keyframes in the graph editor. There is a parameter in the preferences file for this, but it doesn’t do anything.

    Mylenium

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  • Steve Roberts

    August 10, 2006 at 7:23 pm

    Yep. You could isolate each axis by adding two “slider” expression controls to the layer’s position property, then typing this for a position expression:

    [ , ]

    … then you place the expression text cursor before the comma and pickwhip to the first slider, then place the cursor after the comma and pickwhip to the second slider. You can also do this with three dimensions (sliders) instead of two. [ , , ] Then you work the graphs for the sliders.

    You know, this could probably be set up as an Animation Preset …

  • Steve Roberts

    August 10, 2006 at 7:30 pm

    … then there’s the Preset in the Transform folder … 🙂

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