Retiming rotoshape animation – Apple Shake 4 User Manual

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Chapter 20

Rotoscoping

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outPoint
Moves the out point of the rotoshape, allowing you to change where that rotoshape
ends. This parameter corresponds to the out point of the rotoshape in the Time View.

Retiming RotoShape Animation

The retimeShapes button, within the timing subtree of the RotoShape Parameters tab,
lets you retime all of the keyframes that are applied to that rotoshape.

Using this command, you can compress the keyframes that are animating a rotoshape,
speeding up the changes taking place from keyframe to keyframe, or expand them,
slowing the animation down.

When you click retimeShapes, the Node Retime window appears. The retimeShapes
command has two modes, Speed and Remap, which affect a RotoShape node’s
keyframes similarly to the Speed and Remap options found within the Timing tab of a
FileIn node.

Speed Adjustments

The default Operation, Speed, lets you compress or expand all of the keyframes within
the RotoShape node by a fixed multiplier.

Suppose you have the following group of keyframes:

Using the default Amount value of 2.0 and clicking apply contracts the keyframes
proportionally—resulting in the following distribution:

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