Timeline beyond frame range.

Development Feature discussions
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In Synfig you can’t go to frames after the last frame in the scenes.
I understand from discussions and bug reports that this is a conscious choice but I would like to argue against it.

If you don’t want to end every scene with static still characters but rather with characters in motion it is much easier to animate those motions continuing past the last frame. It is much harder to animate up to one point in a motion and stop there. It’s very difficult to get a natural feel to it and the feeling that the motion continues from that point.

Also with the same argument I would like the possibility to go to frames before start of scene. To negative frame numbering. It’s much easier to start motions earlier than to animate from one point in mid-motion.

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Why don’t you simply set your proyect to the needed start and end frames and then when render you only render what you need?

Remember that you can start render from any frame and end it before the end.

-G

PS: What I really miss is the ability to view what’s outside the render output (or a camera system in Synfig :slight_smile:)

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Thanks.

Setting a longer time range is a workaround I’m using. It works but you still have to plan a bit, how many extra frames do I need?

I agree, seeing whats outside the canvas would be extremely useful!

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Totally agreed. The fixed combination of canvas and camera in Synfig is quite annoying. We need an unbounded canvas and a separate camera system. Digital animation should not be hindered by the antiquated notions of celluloid! :wink:

G.