Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 568)

568 Chapter 20 Rotoscoping
Right-Click Menu on Point
Viewer Shelf Controls
Re-Center Re-centers the transform tool to be the center of the shape.
Control-drag to modify it without moving the shape.
Add Child Click the transform tool of a second shape to make it a child of the
current shape.
Remove Parent Removes the current shape from the skeleton hierarchy.
Delete Shape Deletes the current shape.
Copy Shape Copies the current shape.
Copy Visible Shapes Copies all visible shapes.
Paste Shapes Pastes copied shapes.
Copy Keyframe of Shape Copies the state of the shape at the position of the playhead.
Paste Keyframe of Shape Pastes a copied shape keyframe.
Attach Tracker To Shape Calls up a list of previously created trackers that may be used to
transform the entire shape.
Menu Option Description
Menu Option Description
Select All Selects all points on the shape.
Reset Softedge Repositions the edge knot on top of the main knot.
Remove tracker reference on
selected points Breaks the link between a tracker and the currently selected control
points.
Bake tracker into selected points Permanently bakes the transformation data from a referenced
tracker into the control point.
Create tracker for selected
points Creates a new tracker that’s automatically used to transform the
selected control points.
Attach tracker to selected CVs in
current shape Lets you choose from all the trackers available in the current script,
in order to attach a tracker to one or more selected control points.
Button Description
Add/Edit Shapes Click the Add Shapes button to draw a shape. Click the Edit
Shapes button to edit a shape. Closing a shape automatically
activates Edit Shapes mode. Rotoshapes render only when
Edit Shapes mode is active.
Import/Export
Shape Data Lets you import and export shape data between Shake and
external applications.