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Choosing Time Configuration options - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: Learning 3ds Max 2020
Choosing Time Configuration options
- [Narrator] In preparation for animation, you want to set your frame rate and the duration of the active time segment in your track bar here or time slider. To change those animation options, go into the time configuration dialog. And it's found in the transport controls at the bottom of the screen. It's a button, looks like a little clock with a gear next to it. Click on time configuration. And the default is 30 frames per second, NTSC. And that's the archaic, analog television standard in the United States. If you choose PAL, then you'll get 25 frames per second. If you choose Film, you'll get 24 frames per second. I actually recommend choosing custom, so that you'll have a frames per second read out here that will tell you exactly what your frames per second are. And there's no mistake. So, just choose custom and, that way, you won't have to guess at what NTSE or PAL or Film means. Below that, we have the playback options. I do recommend that you disable Active Viewport Only…
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Scene organization with layers and groups5m 34s
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Linking objects in a transform hierarchy4m 52s
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Choosing Time Configuration options3m 49s
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Creating keyframes with Auto Key2m 48s
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Editing keyframes in the Track Bar3m 27s
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Creating keyframes with Set Key3m 46s
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Editing function curves in the Curve Editor7m 58s
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