Precise animation motion

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Keith D

Is there an easier way to precisely set motion animation
start and stop points. The little green and red arrows are
difficult to use sometimes. The ability to use arrow keys
to nudge would be helpful.
Any thoughts?
 
Keith,
You certainly can use the arrow keys to nudge the motion path. Are you not
able to do so?
 
Keith,
You certainly can use the arrow keys to nudge the motion path. Are you not
able to do so?
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I think the problem is that the arrow keys nudge the whole motion path,
and can't be used to nudge just the start point or the stop point.

Keith, I don't know of any way to do this, but I sometimes zoom in very
close when I want to set this more precisely. To make this easy, if
you've got a mouse with a middle wheel button, hold down the Control key
and move the wheel to zoom in and out.

Hope this helps, but if anyone can suggest a way to use the keys to do
this, it'd be helpful for me too.


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The arrow keys will nudge the entire path. That works
fine. I am hoping to (for example)nudge just the red end
point so it will hit a precise point. The zoom in
suggestions helps, but sometimes there are a lot of
distracting items on the screen that make it difficult.
 
Hi,

Try the zoom bit and add a small dot, or object exactly where you want the
end point. Then turn on Snap to other Objects (<Control + G> in 2003) and
see if it will snap to the point you added. Else, you can use snap to grid
to get it where you want it, then move the entire object to where you really
want it.
 
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