View layer weight animation

You can view the animatable properties of animation layers themselves (such as Weight) in the Time Slider, Graph Editor, or Dope Sheet.

To set up these animation editors to show the weight animation for a selected layer, do the following:

To view the layer’s Weight animation in the Time Slider

  1. Right-click the Time Slider and select Display Key Ticks > Show Layer Weight.

    The Weight keys for the animation layer display in the Time Slider.

To view the layer’s Weight animation in the Graph Editor

  1. Open the Graph Editor.
  2. Right-click the Outliner area and select Display>Animation Layers Filter > Show Layer Weight if it is not already on.
    A purple attribute named Weight appears at the top of the Outliner list and the layer’s Weight Curve displays.

    The Animation Layer Weight shown as a curve in the Graph Editor

To view the layer’s Weight animation in the Dope Sheet

    Open the Dope Sheet, right-click the Outliner area and select Display > Animation Layers Filter > Show Layer Weight from the Dope Sheet Outliner contextual menu.