Clipmaker Overview

View an overview demo of the Clipmaker in VRED.

learnMore icon For additional information on Clipmaker, see Clips and the Clipmaker (Video).

Video captions: Open the Edit menu in the Clipmaker's menu bar and select New Clip to create a new clip. Rename the clip to Trunk_Lid. Open the curve Editor with the help of the Quick Access bar. Subordinate the block element via drag and drop to your created clip. The Clipmaker allows to rearrange, retime, and group animation blocks to set up more complex animation. Play back the animation with the help of the Clipmaker. The animation of the trunk lid was created in advance. For more information, view the tutorials, Keyframe and Curve and Block in the Animation section. Via the symbols that reside next to a sequence, clips can be locked, unlocked, displayed, or hidden.

In the Clipmaker, you can move around clips with your middle mouse button held down. Select the clip and call up the sub menu with the help of the right mouse button. Choose Duplicate Flipped from the list to inversely duplicate the clip. This means that the ending point of the source clip is the starting point of the new clip. Over start, you can set the starting point of the clip and change the value to 50. Play back the animation. Select the clip and pick Frame Objects in View to show the whole length of the clip. Activate Horizontal Grid Snapping to be able to move the clip by frame.

Select the plus symbol in the QuickActions Bar to create new clips, sequences, camera shots, viewpoints, or variants. Multiple block elements can be subordinated to a clip. Select the first block element and add it to the second clip. Play back the clip with the help of the Clipmaker.