Setting Up the Working Area

The light blue portion of the Timeline represents the Working Area. This area highlights the portion of the timeline you're currently working on.

When you're previewing your animation, only the portion of the timeline within the Working Area is previewed.

The Working Area is most useful when you're working on a long animations as it saves on preview time or when you're refining a specific portion of your animation.

When you're rendering the animation, you can choose to render the entire animation or just the Working Area portion.

You can also use the Working Area to render out sections of the timeline while you're setting up the animation, and then render the entire Animation Range when you're creating the final animation.

To set the range of the Working Area manually:

1. Click+drag either end of the existing Working Area.
   
   
2. Release the mouse button when the Working Area is the desired length. The Working Area cannot be extended past the end of the Animation Range.
   
   

To set the range of the Working Area numerically:

1. Choose File > Animation Setup or double-click the Current Time Indicator.
   
   
   
   The Animation Setup dialog appears.
2. Click the triangle icon at the top-left of the dialog and choose Working Range Low from the menu.
   
   
3. Enter the starting time for the Working Range.
   
   
4. Click the triangle icon again and choose Working Range High.
   
   
5. Enter the ending time for the Working Range.
   
   
6. Click on the OK icon to close the dialog.

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