Simply set keyframe?

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frank
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Simply set keyframe?

Post by frank »

Hey, y'all!

I'm doing some stop-motion style stuff in tS and am doubling keyframes to simulate "shooting in twos", whereby the animator takes two frames per pose.

It's done for speed/economy, but also is a huge part of the charm of stop-motion animation.

Problem: tS only wants to set a keyframe when it detects movement / something changed. So my workaround is to pose the object, set a key, frame forward once, move object, click undo, set a key. This tricks tS into allowing me to set duplicate frames for a given pose.

I can copy/paste in the KFE or use the KFE recorder, but I'd rather not fiddle with all that.

Ideas? (Seems like I remember a plugin back in the day for setting keys.)
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trueBlue
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Re: Simply set keyframe?

Post by trueBlue »

Seems to work as you want in the Scene Editor's Record Keyframe button. Ctrl+R
I unchecked Auto Record too.
Possible plugin:
Search "keyframe" here:
http://www.designdevil.de/index.php?menu=plugins"
frank
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Re: Simply set keyframe?

Post by frank »

Thanks, trueBlue!

It turns out I'm about to do double-keyframing really easily in MotionStudio.
As I'll be keeping the camera on "ones", I may not need to delve into native tS keyframe manipulation.

Here's an example:

https://vimeo.com/100171646