Andre both your request are possible right now. For
trimming you need only put the time slider over the
frame that you want to trim and use [ to trim before
and ] to trim after.
For animated offset look under Effect>Create offset
effect. you can creat offset keys by right clicking
on the yellow part of the clip and selecting "set
offset key - changed parameters."
scott
--- Andre DeAngelis <andre.deangelis(at)ubisoft.com>
wrote:
> Excellent suggesrions.
>
> Some of these issue have been raise before,
> especially the need to have the mixer working at the
> scene level, which would adress your first point.
> At the moment, you cannot work in keyframe mode and
> mixer mode at the same time without conflicts
> between the two.
>
> The second suggesrtion is an interesting one, though
> you can make your work more efficient using
> reference clips also,
>
> I have a few I would like to add. I would like an
> interactive trim feature for clips. When you trim a
> clip at the moment, you have to go into your Clip
> Time Controls to adjust the in and out points. It
> would be nice to be able to drag the head or tail of
> a clip to adjust these values interactively.
>
> Finally, we need something like an animatable Offset
> map to make he mixer really flexible.
>
> The Mixer is handy, but it's starting to show it's
> age.
>
> AD
>
>
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>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Mike
> Werckle
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:04 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: "Out in the World" vs. "In a Clip"
>
>
> Thanks for everyone's responses. It seems like
> people who use the mixer a lot can all agree that it
> needs some improvement in some areas-- not that it's
> bad the way it is, just that it could be even more
> useful.
>
> I think everyone can agree that it would be useful
> to be able to animate directly into a clip, then to
> be able to open that clip and manipulate the fcurves
> the same way you would with a normal animation in
> the timeline.
>
> Another issue which hasn't been broached is the
> concept of the mixer view. Often you have clips on
> many different mixers in the scene. Do you think it
> would be helpful if there were a global mixer view
> where you could display all of your tracks? You'd
> be able to see clip relationships to each other in
> time, and work on all your clips without having to
> close one mixer and open another.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On 1/30/06, Raffaele Fragapane <jaco(at)thejaco.com>
> wrote:
>
> in my opinion, human interface wise you can easily
> get the best of both
> worlds without compromising retrocompatibility or
> the current workflow
>
> the mixer should have one permanent background
> track (that adapts to the
> selection/keying set and not to the whole
> scenespace/modelspace) and
> this track should be, by default, weighted at 0 (to
> not change the
> behaviour of old scenes).
>
> this background track could then be dealt with like
> any other clip in
> the mixer, shifting or scaling it back and forth
> should modify the
> keyframes (makes for an easier life then having to
> switch to the
> dopesheet for just that), and bringing its weight
> up should mix it with
> the actual clips in the way a normal clip would.
>
> this doesn't get anywhere near to the dream of
> having channel based
> clips and a basic nodal interface common to the
> whole app to manage
> them; but it would make the mixer (and clipFX) a
> LOT more useful
>
> It could then be expanded on further by being able
> to create more of
> such background animation tracks and being able to
> toggle the
> display/activity of each in the fcurve editor, this
> would also allow for
> interesting things like easily accessible multiple
> and blendable sets of
> expressions and constraints (which can already be
> effectively stored in
> clips and managed up to a certain point).
>
> while the actual backend and coding work behind
> this isn't probably
> anywhere as easy as it seems, and there would be
> some circularity to
> resolve, I believe it would be a sensible step
> forward that doesn't take
> away what's good already in the NLA system, and it
> shouldn't alienate
> those who want no changes to the current workflow
>
> oh well, just thinking aloud here.
>
> ******************************
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>
>
>
> olivier jeannel wrote:
>
> > I agree in some way.
> > Although I think it's nice to have the Mixer
> overiding the Timeline,
> > perhaps the solution could be to have a special
> "Timeline-Transition"
> > to smoothly blend between both "world".
> >
> >
> > Rafe Sacks a écrit :
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> There is one behavior I think needs to be
> altered. When there is
> >> ActionSource data and key frame data on the same
> object, the key
> >> frames don't kick in until the clip is at 0%
> influence. It really
> >> should blend properly. It would cut out several
> steps and make
> >> animating so much easier.
> >>
> >> I always loved the idea of a track in the mixer
> which would allow an
> >> Animator to automatically key there instead of
> directly on the
> >> object. I found a way to do it, but I figured it
> would take a couple
> >> months to develop the idea and I just don't have
> the time. It should
> >> be possible though.
> >>
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> >> olivier jeannel wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Mike,
> >>> Maybe I don't get your point clearly but I
> almost disagree with you :
> >>> -"You have to animate, then save a clip and
> remove the animation
> >>> from the character, then re-apply the
> animation, so on and so forth. "
> >>> -No, both exist, personaly I like not to
> "remove original animation"
> >>> from the time + "copy cut key" line and just
> let the Mixer Clip
> >>> override it or not.
> >>> -"When setting a keyframe on an object, XSI
> would automatically
> >>> start creating a clip on a track in the
> timeline"
> >>> - Yes but starting creating a clip
> automaticaly, that would make
> >>> tons of clips to scroll in. I prefer make the
> original move, and
> >>> then if necessary Store it into parts (upper
> body, arms, etc. ) as I
> >>> wish, instead of an automatic thing...
>
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