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Editing keyframes in the Dope Sheet

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Editing keyframes in the Dope Sheet

- [Instructor] In traditional animation, such as hand drawn or stop motion, the term dope sheet refers to a document that records various types of information according to the frame number. It's also known as an exposure sheet, or x sheet, because one type of information it records is camera settings. The dope sheet also records things like lip synchronization information, so that animators can match the timing of prerecorded dialogue. The dope sheet concept translates well into the computer animation domain. Here, it's an editable spreadsheet that plots all key frame data according to frame number and allows us to manipulate key frames both individually and hierarchically in groups. I've got key frames on the camera, so I'll select that and open up the dope sheet from the graph editor's menu. Graph editors, track view, dope sheet. Like the track bar, the dope sheet is a timeline running left to right. But the dope…

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