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Help, again, since I am so brand-new to this, I cannot find how to add a frame to Project mode - can someone tell me where to access the info for this?
Thanks,
K

Kathleen wrote:... I cannot find how to add a frame to Project mode

not sure to get what you mean by "... to Project mode",
if you want to add/remove/edit frame(s) in the timeline, you should go to the Clip:TimeLine tab of the timeline window,
then use the Animator panel, the button to add a frame is : Instance / +1.

ZigOtto wrote:

Kathleen wrote:... I cannot find how to add a frame to Project mode

not sure to get what you mean by "... to Project mode",
if you want to add/remove/edit frame(s) in the timeline, you should go to the Clip:TimeLine tab of the timeline window,
then use the Animator panel, the button to add a frame is : Instance / +1.

Under Clip, then it is "insert instances after current image" - yes?
Thanks for getting back so fast, this is a really helpful forum,
K

Kathleen wrote:Under Clip, then it is "insert instances after current image" - yes?
Thanks for getting back so fast, this is a really helpful forum,
K

On the Animator panel, there's one for inserting an arbitrary number of frames (keyboard shortcut 'I'), and also one for inserting a single frame. Not to be confused with "adding one exposure", which appends a a copy of the current frame to the instance.

Might K. be wanting to add a clip under the project tab, calling the clip a frame?

Paul Fierlinger wrote:Might K. be wanting to add a clip under the project tab, calling the clip a frame?

I might be - but I have to say that going from pencil and paper to this format I realize how much I must learn - I think I want to animate frame by frame -
does that make sense to want to do, at this point in my learning process?
So I was trying to find out how to just add another frame and onion skin so I can see the one or two that came before... so far this is where I am in this learning curve!
Oh, I hope you all don't mind this type of question!
Thanks, so much,
Kathleen

Then my predecessors were correct. What threw me was that you asked how to add frame to Project Mode. You are in the Timeline Mode and want to know how to add a blank frame to your timeline.
You have already drawn your first frame. Stretch out the instances of this frame by clicking in the tiny sprocket hole in the bottom right corner of the frame and drag out the gray matter a few frames, say 10 or 15 frames in length.
Click under the last frame and Right Mouse Button click (RMB) on that spot and select Insert Images from the menu. In the popup window select OK and you have created a new image (There is a shortcut way which I will explain later)
Draw your new image; a new pose of the first one.
Somewhere between these two images create a new image, turn on your Light Table and draw a new image between the lines of the one on the left and on the right.

Now for the shortcut to make a new image: Open the Configure Shortcut panel (Ctrl+K) and in the left column select a Ket (say zero on your Numbers Pad) and in the right column select Layer and inside that section select: Insert Single Image After Current Image. In the top right corner press Assign. Now you have assigned the command to create a new image to your 0 of your numbers pad.

Go back to your timeline and continue placing a new frame between two images and draw an inbetween image... you have now become an animator!

Paul Fierlinger wrote:Then my predecessors were correct. What threw me was that you asked how to add frame to Project Mode. You are in the Timeline Mode and want to know how to add a blank frame to your timeline.
You have already drawn your first frame. Stretch out the instances of this frame by clicking in the tiny sprocket hole in the bottom right corner of the frame and drag out the gray matter a few frames, say 10 or 15 frames in length.
Click under the last frame and Right Mouse Button click (RMB) on that spot and select Insert Images from the menu. In the popup window select OK and you have created a new image (There is a shortcut way which I will explain later)
Draw your new image; a new pose of the first one.
Somewhere between these two images create a new image, turn on your Light Table and draw a new image between the lines of the one on the left and on the right.

Now for the shortcut to make a new image: Open the Configure Shortcut panel (Ctrl+K) and in the left column select a Ket (say zero on your Numbers Pad) and in the right column select Layer and inside that section select: Insert Single Image After Current Image. In the top right corner press Assign. Now you have assigned the command to create a new image to your 0 of your numbers pad.

Go back to your timeline and continue placing a new frame between two images and draw an inbetween image... you have now become an animator!

Paul, I love that last line! I am going to go through these instructions tonight - they are clear and to the point - BTW will be ordering those books, too.
Thanks, I appreciate this .. a LOT!... and will get back to you on how I progressed with this -going to take FX's advice and do a small thing - wiggle a bunnies ears, or something :}
Kathleen

Kathleen wrote:

Paul Fierlinger wrote:Then my predecessors were correct. What threw me was that you asked how to add frame to Project Mode. You are in the Timeline Mode and want to know how to add a blank frame to your timeline.
You have already drawn your first frame. Stretch out the instances of this frame by clicking in the tiny sprocket hole in the bottom right corner of the frame and drag out the gray matter a few frames, say 10 or 15 frames in length.
Click under the last frame and Right Mouse Button click (RMB) on that spot and select Insert Images from the menu. In the popup window select OK and you have created a new image (There is a shortcut way which I will explain later)
Draw your new image; a new pose of the first one.
Somewhere between these two images create a new image, turn on your Light Table and draw a new image between the lines of the one on the left and on the right.

Now for the shortcut to make a new image: Open the Configure Shortcut panel (Ctrl+K) and in the left column select a Ket (say zero on your Numbers Pad) and in the right column select Layer and inside that section select: Insert Single Image After Current Image. In the top right corner press Assign. Now you have assigned the command to create a new image to your 0 of your numbers pad.

Go back to your timeline and continue placing a new frame between two images and draw an inbetween image... you have now become an animator!

Paul, I love that last line! I am going to go through these instructions tonight - they are clear and to the point - BTW will be ordering those books, too.
Thanks, I appreciate this .. a LOT!... and will get back to you on how I progressed with this -going to take FX's advice and do a small thing - wiggle a bunnies ears, or something :}
Kathleen

Paul,
I am half-way there - made the first image, then dragged the grey matter ( great, btw, I was dragging white matter, before!) to fifteen , then Click under the last frame and Right Mouse Button click (RMB) on that spot and select Insert Images from the menu. In the popup window select OK and you have created a new image"
and got one put in slot 15. then tried the same move from under the last image and got one right next to it, which I moved to the middle. I now have drawings in #1 and #15.
Turned on the light table, and don't know what to do with it. Neither #1 nor #15 shows for me to draw in between...
help? I really do feel pretty good that I got this much and I am beginning to see the light! ( but not the light table... )

You need three frames to use the LT; one on the left, one on the right (each have to have a drawing) and the third in the middle so that with the help of the LT you can see the ghosted images on either side and draw in between their lines. The little LT button at the head of the layer has to be clicked on (or in TVP 10 the dot under the light bulb) and in the LT panel the zero in the middle and the # 1's on each side have to be activated.

Paul Fierlinger wrote:You need three frames to use the LT; one on the left, one on the right (each have to have a drawing) and the third in the middle so that with the help of the LT you can see the ghosted images on either side and draw in between their lines. The little LT button at the head of the layer has to be clicked on (or in TVP 10 the dot under the light bulb) and in the LT panel the zero in the middle and the # 1's on each side have to be activated.

Another AHHA! moment Paul, thanks, good teaching! The first image doesn't come up, though. It seems different than the last, #15, which does show up. The first image has a green bar and a red bar above it. The others don't.

You probably have your IN and OUT marks set under the project window. My bedtime has passed.

Paul Fierlinger wrote:You probably have your IN and OUT marks set under the project window. My bedtime has passed.

mine too! goodnight! and thanks

Well, Paul, this is why I am getting no sleep - but I did it! Thanks to your good instructions, I am "now an animator"
I made a 20 frame fire in 20 different colors, that moved and danced - wish I could show it!
Thanks, Kathleen