Playback controls – Apple Shake 4 User Manual
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Chapter 1
An Overview of the Shake User Interface
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To pan across the Time Bar, press the middle mouse button and drag; or Option-click or
Alt-click and drag.
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To zoom into or out of the frame range displayed by the Time Bar, press Control and
the middle mouse button; or Control-Option-click or Control-Alt-click, then drag.
Playback Controls
The controls illustrated below play through the script according to the Time Bar frame
range, not the global timeRange.
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To play forward, click the forward arrow button.
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To play backward, click the backward arrow button.
Note: Regardless of the speed of your computer, Viewer playback is now limited to
the frame rate specified in the framesPerSecond parameter in the Format section of
the Globals tab.
Assuming your composition is cached so that real-time playback is possible, this
playback rate is not exact, but may vary by around 10 percent.
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To stop playback, click the stop button, or click the left mouse button anywhere on
the screen.
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Shift-click a playback button to render all frames in the current frame range and store
the frames in memory. The sequence will play back much faster next time.
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Click the keyframe buttons to jump to the previous or next keyframe.
The following table lists additional keyboard shortcuts.
For more information, see Chapter 8, “
Keyboard
Description
Left Arrow key or Right Arrow
key
Retreat/advance a frame based on the frame Increment setting
(works in any window).
Up Arrow key or Down Arrow
key
Jump to next/previous keyframe.
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Play forward.
Shift-.
Begin cached playback.
Home
Fit the current time range into the Time Bar.
T
Toggle timecode/frame display.