Further enhancements to the 2025 update of the Dope Sheet Editor.
Sound in the Dope Sheet
The Dope Sheet Editor now supports multiple audio tracks, with their waveforms appearing at the top of the view area. See the section Sound in the Dope Sheet in the Dope Sheet view area topic.
Improved Dope Sheet Zoom and Pan
Dope Sheet zooming centers on the cursor position
You can now zoom in and out of the Dope Sheet View area based on the position of the cursor. Previously, the zoom focused on the center of the window, making it easy to lose track of your position. Also, while revisiting the zoom behavior, work was done to enhance the zoom and pan navigation experience within the Dope Sheet Editor.
Dope Sheet Editor Selection Improvements
This update includes several enhancements to key selection, which are useful because the specialty of the Dope Sheet Editor is working with dense keyframes and large-scale timing edits:
Shift-Select to update multiple key values
Updating multiple key values at once
- Shift-select multiple Dope Sheet Editor keys.
- While holding Shift, double-click one of the selected keys and enter a value to modify them all at once.
Improved selection of dense keys
Left: Selecting dense keys in Maya 2025, Right: new in 2025.1, frame numbers display
Improvements to the
Dope Sheet
Edit >
Transformation Tools >
Select Keys
tool let you work with more precision in areas where there are many keys crowded tightly together. Now, frame numbers appear over each corner of the selection to give you the precise location of the selected keys.
Working with the
Select Keys tool
is also now easier to see and manipulate, and a problem where the displayed end frame number was shown at an offset from the actual selection has been addressed. These improvements are a particular help when working with a dense number of keys.
. Both of these tools let you select more than one key, but
Select Keys
has a scalable manipulator that lets you view frame numbers.
Improved Move Tool Selection
A problem with selecting keys in the
Dope Sheet View area has been addressed. Previously, when you used the Move tool
, and selected an attribute, all the corresponding sub attributes were selected: you could not select an
individual attribute. Now, the selection refreshes correctly.
Disable snapping with Time Snap
Moving a key with the Time Snap option
A new Time Snap option has been added to the Dope Sheet toolbar to let you activate or disable snapping. Similar to the Graph Editor Time Snap option, it forces keys moved in the View area to the nearest integer (nonfractional) time unit value.
New Bake Channel option
Baking selected channels in the Dope Sheet
A new Dope Sheet Editor-specific Time Range option has been added to the Bake Channel options: Selection. The Selection option lets you bake the keys in a range defined by keys you select.
Channel Set import/export
New options have been added to the Dope Sheet outliner contextual menu to let you import and export Channel Sets so you can share them between scenes. To do so, right-click in the Dope Sheet outliner and select the Import and Export options from the contextual menu.
The Dope Sheet Editor exports Channel Sets as a JSON file. See Import and Export Channel Sets in the Create Channel Sets in the Dope Sheet topic.