From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects

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Timeline shortcuts

Timeline shortcuts

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Timeline shortcuts

Before you start animating in Cinema 4D it's important to understand the interface when it comes to animation. It's quite different than the interface that we've used up until now for our basic modeling. Now if you want to follow along, I've got chapter zero four, start dot C4D open, from the chapter four menu. And, first thing I'm going to do, is go to the layout menu, up here in this little drop down menu, and I going to choose animation. And that's immediately going to bring up the timeline. Now, when we where in the standard view, You could see a small representation of the timeline here with playback controls and various key framing options. But if we go to the animation layout, we get the full timeline displayed and it's maximized and above it are the mini timeline and all the transport controls and key framing controls that you would need. Now timeline is very different from the After Effects timeline. So it might take you a little bit of time to get used to it. But it's very…

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