Setting Up an Animation

Before you start setting up key frames or adjusting the timeline, you should set up some general parameters for your animation.

The Animation Setup dialog lets you set up the duration, the frame rate and whether you want to display animation time as SMPTE (i.e.; hours:minutes:seconds:frames) or frame numbers. See "Animation Setup" for more detailed information on the setup dialog.

To set the duration of your animation numerically:

1. Choose File > Animation Setup from the menu or double-click the Current Time Indicator.
   
   
   
   The Animation Setup dialog appears.
   
   
2. Click the Scale button. This switches to the Duration fields to set the duration of your animation.
   
   
3. In the Duration fields, enter the total length of your animation in hours, minutes, seconds and frames. When you enter a duration, Bryce automatically calculates the number of frames in the animation, based on the current frame rate. The number of frames is displayed in the Frame # field.
   
   
4. Click on the OK icon to close the dialog.

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