Selecting keyframes – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 10

Parameter Animation and the Curve Editor

Note: In the Curve Editor, when the pointer passes over a curve, the curve name is
highlighted; when the pointer passes over a keyframe, the keyframe values are
displayed.

Selecting Keyframes

You can edit a group of keyframes together by selecting them as a group. You can also
add and remove keyframes from a previously selected group.

To select one or more keyframes, do one of the following:

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Click a single keyframe.

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Shift-click to select multiple keyframes.

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Drag to select a group of keyframes with a selection box.

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Press B while dragging to create a persistent manipulator box that you can use to
manipulate a range of keyframes.

This box allows you to scale the keyframe group in X and Y, only X, or only Y. The
manipulator box also allows you to move the group within the boundaries of the
surrounding (not selected) keyframes. For more information on this method, see “

Using

the Manipulator Box

” on page 304.

To add keyframes to the current selection:

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Shift-click a point on a curve to add an additional keyframe.

To select all keyframes on a curve:

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Position the pointer over the curve so that it’s highlighted (or select the curve in the
parameters list), then press Shift-A.

To select all keyframes in the Curve Editor:

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Press Command-A or Control-A (select all curves), then press Shift-A.

To deselect one or more keyframes:

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Command-drag or Control-drag to remove keyframes from the current selection of
keyframes.

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