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PointCloudGenerator: Setting keyframes

PointCloudGenerator: Setting keyframes - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: Nuke New Features Consolidated

PointCloudGenerator: Setting keyframes

- [Instructor] The purpose of setting manual keyframes is to tell the point cloud generator to use only the most accurate frames for its calculations. I'd like to call your attention to the tick marks down here on the timeline. This is kind of a confusing thing. I'm going to open up the Dope Sheet so that you can see that each one of these tick marks is actually two keyframes, one for the accuracy, these calculated values right here, and the other one for the keyframes, these guys up here. Now let's jump to frame one, and we'll look at the calculated accuracy 0.69. Not terribly good so I'm going to delete the keyframe, and notice that the keyframe's field has jumped to 21 and turned light blue. That means there's no keyframe where the playhead is. So if I jump to the next keyframe, 21, you'll see it's bright blue. So if I get my cursor off the keyframe it turns light blue, on the keyframe bright blue. So this is the way you can tell the keyframes for the keyframes, compared to the…

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