Taking drawings "off the pegs"?

[Trumpatrick]

I'm fairly new to tvpaint, and when reading this article (http://barnas-ark.blogspot.com/p/paperless-animation.html) about a workflow of a Scandinavian studio, I came across the following:

"You can take the drawings "off" the pegs, and put them at a different position for easier inbetweening. That's great."

What does this mean? Can you actually take drawings and unpeg them, spread them apart and still use the light table and then, when you're done inbetweening or whatever, repeg them? Or are they just copying the frames and rotating them on a different layer for reference?

[Elodie]

What does this mean? Can you actually take drawings and unpeg them, spread them apart and still use the light table and then, when you're done inbetweening or whatever, repeg them?

That's it

You can try to use it by yourself : download the demo version and read the lesson 6-30 to 6-34

[Trumpatrick]

I already have the pro version of TVpaint. Do you mean 6-30 to 6-34 of the users manual? In the manual, this section is about the inking process, I can't find anything about this "unpegging"?

[Trumpatrick]

Oh, and I have another question; can you "crop" a project? Let's say you have a multiple layer project of 1000 frames long, select frame 200 to 400 and throw everything before and after these frame away, on all layers?

[slowtiger]

Elodie refers to pages 6-32 of the TVP version 10 manual. For previouos versions, look at http://static.tvpaint.com/downloads/manual/tvpa9/appendix.pdf on page 33.

[Trumpatrick]

Ah, ok! That's a great feature, thank you for the help! How about my second question? Would that be possible as well?

[Peter Wassink]

Ah, ok! That's a great feature, thank you for the help! How about my second question? Would that be possible as well?

Hoi Patrick!

easiest way to do this whne you have a lot of layers is using "split clip" (icon 4 in the Animator Panel)
then in the project view you can delete the clips you dont need

[Sewie]

I'm using these buttons for that; It adds or deletes frames on all layers. It works per frame, though. But if you assign a shortcut you can keep it pressed.
But perhaps there is a more efficient way that I'm not aware of...

[Paul Fierlinger]

To your second question: not that I know of. It would be great if merely locking the layer's position (RMB on layer to find Lock Position) would make this possible. Right now, a locked layer will still jump to the left when left frames are deleted -- this shouldn't happen, IMO. A work around is to use the Image markers to mark the alignment of the layer above or below the one you will be cropping so you can quickly move it back to its original position.

[Trumpatrick]

Thank you for the help everyone, I'll check it out!

[slowtiger]

I wonder if it works to add a frame range into the "Modify Project" panel, so the new project could be shorter? Unfortunately, with the introduction of clips, this doesn't make much sense anymore. Maybe we need a new "Modify Clip" command, which would make a copy of the current clip, and would allow you to choose a frame range?