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Workflows: Using NLA Editor

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Workflows: Using NLA Editor

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- [David] In this week's Blender's Tips, Tricks and Techniques, I'm going to show you how to use one of the most underutilized tools in all of Blender, the NLA Editor. Now, first you might be saying, well what is the NLA Editor? And if you come up here and you go to Animation, you don't even see it. You see the Dope Sheet and the F-Curve Editor, but you don't see the NLA Editor. So, let's go ahead and go to Default, let's split this open here, and using our little cube, let's go ahead and hit I, and go to Location. Now down over here, I'm going to switch this to the NLA Editor, and I'm going to go to say frame 20, bring it forward, hit I, Location, let's go to frame 10, let's pull it up on to see, Location. Now I can hit N, with my mouse over the NLA Editor, and push this down to create a clip. Once you've created a clip, you'll see a couple of new things appear. First, you have this Track, that's kind of like a Track in say editing or a layer in say Photoshop, it's just a way to…

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