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Modify keys in the Dope Sheet

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Modify keys in the Dope Sheet

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- [Male Voiceover] Another way to manipulate animation is to use the Dope Sheet. Now this allows you to manipulate individual attributes or groups of attributes but it does not allow you to view curves so it lies somewhere between the Timeline and the Graph Editor so let's take a look at how this works. We can find this under Windows, Animation Editors, Dope Sheet and when I bring it up, it brings up this graphical interface. Now if I click on an object such as this rocket, you'll see that it has keys here that match the keys on the Timeline so we have keys here at one, twenty five and fifty. Now one of the neat things about the Dope Sheet is that it also allows you to get quickly into the Graph Editor. So up here in the top right hand corner you'll see these two buttons. One of them looks like a little graph and if I click on that, it immediately brings me into the Graph Editor. If I click on this little grid shape icon, it brings me back to the Dope Sheet. So this is a great way to…

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