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<FONT COLOR="#0055DD"><B>Tutorial 12: Time Offset</B>
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You may have some paths that you wish to start later on the timeline.
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Select Path 1. Now click on the PATH button.
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See the time offset box. Click on it. Enter 4 (seconds). Hit return.
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Now look at the timeline. You moved the first path, so that it starts at 4 seconds.
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But take note that it<69>s Roll Path Didn<64>t NOR did it<69>s focus on path 2, so You will also have to move those.
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Now Play it back.
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You are Now a monster with time offset.
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NOTE: This Could be useful for any number of things, but I never used it. Instead, if I needed a path shifted forward on the timeline, I did the following: THIS IS USEFUL:
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When you click on a node, you know how you hold the mouse button down to drag the node? Diggit: Hold the Shift key while dragging, and you<6F>ll drag EVERY NODE on that timeline. It<49>s how you Manually offset a channel. Much goodness.
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