Breaking Clips

In iClone, the motion clip can be cut with or without flattening the remaining animation.

Click the drop-down arrow on the Timeline toolbar to select one of these two breaking methods.

You can also right-click on the desired clip to execute break commands from the context menu.

Non-destructive breaking method

1. Deploy a character and apply a motion clip.
   
2. Make sure the clip is selected and move to the desired timeframe to place the break.
   
3. Execute the Non-destructive Break command (Ctrl + B) from the Timeline toolbar.
   
   The clip will be cut into two pieces.
   
4. Delete the unwanted piece.
   
5. The remaining clip will show an arrow at the end frame, indicating that the cropped keys are preserved and deactivated.
   
6. Toggle the Resize button and drag the end of the clip to uncrop the trailing keys.
   

Key preservation with non-destructive break can only be stored via the right-click context menu. Other methods for saving, such as collecting the clip or using the Save button in the Content Manager will remove cropped data.

• Option 1: Save Motion Clip.
  
• Option 2: Save Expression Clip
  

Normal Break (Destructive break)

1. Deploy a character and apply a motion clip.
   
2. Make sure the clip is selected and move to the desired timeframe to place the break.
   
3. Execute the Normal Break command from the Timeline toolbar.
   
4. The animation data of the clip will be flatten and sampled.
   
5. Delete the unwanted clip.
   
6. Toggle the Resize button and extend the tail of the clip to reveal a lack of animation data.