Navigating the curve editor, Curve editor right-click menus – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 10

Parameter Animation and the Curve Editor

Navigating the Curve Editor

There are many controls you can use to move around the Curve Editor.

Useful controls for automatically framing curves:

To frame one or more selected curves to the size of the Curve Editor, press F.

To frame all curves to the size of the Curve Editor, press the Home key, or click the
Home button.

To frame only the selected curves, click the Frame Selected Curves button.

To pan around within the Curve Editor, do one of the following:

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Press the middle mouse button, or Option-click or Alt-click, and drag.

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Click the Navigation button, and drag to pan around.

To zoom into and out of the Curve Editor, do one of the following:

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Press the + or - key.

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Middle-click or Control-Option-click or Control-Alt-click.

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With the pointer over the Navigation button, Control-click and drag.

To zoom the Curve Editor tab to take up the full screen:

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Press the Space bar.

Curve Editor Right-Click Menus

The shortcut menu within the Curve Editor has many controls you can use to manage
curve visibility, and other options for curve editing.

Home button

Frame Selected
Curves button

Navigation button

Shortcut Menu

Description

Keyboard

Add All Curves

Adds all animated curves into the Curve Editor.

Remove Curves

Removes selected curves from the Curve Editor.
Does not delete the animation.

Delete or Backspace

Visibility > Hide Curves

Turns off visibility of selected curves. You can also
toggle visibility in the parameters list.

Visibility > Show Curves

Shows selected curves. You select curves in the
parameters list prior to this function.

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