Muting and Soloing the Animation in Layers
As you work with animation in layers, you can use the mute and solo options to concentrate on specific layers:
• Muting temporarily disables the animation on a layer.
• Soloing lets you single out a layer to play only its animation.
Muting temporarily disables the animation on a layer, preventing it from being played back with the rest of the animation. You can easily mute one or more layers to see the effects of only the animation you want.
However, you cannot mute the animation in the base layer because this is the object’s main animation.
When you duplicate an animation layer, the original layer is automatically muted.
To mute animation layers
• Click the m button beside one or more layers that you want to mute. The button turns light orange when active.
or
• Click the m button beside each layer clip’s track in the animation mixer.
The animation in the muted layers is not calculated in the total animation result.
To unmute the layer, click the m button again.
Soloing lets you single out a layer to play only its animation. This makes it easy to quickly check one layer’s animation at a time without needing to mute all the other layers.
While you will probably solo only one layer at a time, you can solo more than one layer so that only the layers you specify play back, such as for easily testing combinations of animation layers.
To solo animation layers
• Click the s button beside one or more layers that you want to solo. The button turns green when active.
or
• Click the s button beside each layer clip’s track in the animation mixer.
Only the animation in the solo layers is calculated and played back.
To unsolo a layer, click the s button again.
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