The panel shown is from V3.5. In V4.0 The Drawing tab was relabeled as the Properties panel and all the other tabs of the old Properties panel became individual panels. Functionality is the same the change is just in the separation of the panels from tabs to individual panels to enhance the way the user interface could be set up.

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Keyframing allows you to animate certain properties over time. These properties include location, scale, skew, rotation etc. The transform tool (7) is the universal keyframing tool. Unfortunately the perspective tool is a drawing tool and not a scene operations tool so it can not be used in keyframing. Therefore you can't animate the perspective over time through keyframes. There are other ways to animate perspective over time but they require replacement techniques not keyframing directly.

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You don't know how many hours you have saved me!!! I can't thank you enough...and hopefully, some day, I can be as great assistant to someone as you have been to me!!! It's so great to hear that you don't mind these questions...THANKS AGAIN!!! More coming!!! lol

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I was trying to get my eraser to erase what I wanted but it was weird and wouldn't let me erase certain areas. After trying different things such as changing the style of the erase, size, etc. nothing worked. The last suggestion was to trash my preferences for Wacom. I'm working on a MAC and wasn't sure how to do this. I called Wacom and they told me that one of the options when I went to the folder was to remove (which I was afraid to do at the beginning) but it was correct. It allowed me to trash the preferences. I rebooted and low and behold...I CAN ERASE WHAT I WANT, WHERE I WANT!!! Can't thank you enough for this help!

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PERFECT!!!! THANKS!!!! :)

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"I do work in Final Cut which is a video editing program where I can place markers where the beat is. Is there anything like this in TBS? This way I can have the characters dancing to the beat."

I began my current project in Final Cut Pro, synching storyboards to narration-dialogue tracks with visual "beats". This offers at least two means of creating a guide for working in TBS with frame-accuracy, even without sound, and even though I using the "sound-first" approach to animating.

At first I printed screen shots of the FCP timeline with large displays of the picture and voice track at single-frame resolution to imitate synching software like Magpie Pro or (for the old-schoolers among us) synching hardware like the Acmade Compeditor. Sound tracks are relatively easy to "read" when you know the source and its timing, and I could hand-annotate the narration and dialogue on the printed sheets without too much trouble. Having done that and learned from it at the time, it's not what I'm doing now.

To maintain frame-accurate sync, I now:
• export the FCP project as an image sequence
• copy individual frames from the image sequence into TBS at the cut points
• extend exposure to the next cut point
• use the storyboard track as reference "slug" while I do the actual animation.

Incidentally, CoverFlow on Mac OS 10.5 provides a decent, if not quite flip-book like, way of browsing quickly through an image sequence.

I'm assuming that if not for your whole project at least for the dance sequence you are working "sound first", and hope this helps. Of course it is critical to have sound and picture in both environments use the same time base.

All the best,
M.

p.s. - Links for Magpie Pro and the Acmade Compeditor are at http://delicious.com/Michael.Massing/animation

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You just alleviated hours and hours of frustration!! Again, I'm a newbie and this forum is the BEST!!! Thank you!

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It sounds like you have the "face" positioned in front of the mouth, eyes and nose. In your peg hierarchy you probably have the eyes, mouth, and nose as children of the face, which is logical, but because all drawing elements are initially located on the same z-plane (front to back), the face coming first in the timeline puts it in front of the other elements. And because of the order dictated by this hierarchy, the face is on top in the track list. So what you have to do is position the eyes, nose and mouth forward in z-space (front -back). There are detailed instructions on how to do this on the Wiki page on Layering Elements. Look towards the bottom of that page to see how to adjust an elements front-back position in z-space.

The reason you can see them inside TBS is probably because you have the track for the eyes or mouth or nose selected and that causes it to be displayed in front even though it isn't actually in front of the face. If you select the track for the camera you will see the same view as the camera see for export. -JK

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You can un-check element tracks in the timeline to make those elements temporarily not visible in camera view. That way you can just focus on the elements you need to see during onion skinning. Then when you finish you can re-check the hidden elements and they will be visible again. I hope I understood your question. -JK

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