Where to find Advanced Animation Features in DAZ Studio 

OMG! Thank you for this! I can't begin to tell you how much this will help me! I had no idea DAZ had a graph editor or dope sheet. Wow! Thank you!

TCB - An interpolation type, "TCB" is an acronym for Tension, Continuity, Bias, the three qualities which define the shape of the curve if you plot the value of the interpolated parameter against time. Hello Jay! I´d like to say that I love your channel, which teaches us so much about the harsh 3D rendering world. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I also admire quite much your person, as a role model of a warrior, a survivor, a great teacher. Please, continue unveiling DAZ Studio for us!

16:03 "TCB" is an acronym for Tension, Continuity, Bias, the three qualities which define the shape of the curve if you plot the value of the interpolated parameter against time. Basically, it's a set of parameters that you can adjust so that the animation will speed up or slow down in different ways between two keyframes.

THANKS FROM KENYA,THIS IS MY 5TH DAY IN ANIMATION AND YOU ARE MAKING ME A PRO

I've been animating with Daz for like four years now and I have never noticed that slider at the bottom under the graph editor. That will be a HUGE time saver! Thank you!

Another fantastic tutorial. There are lots of Daz tutorials on RU-vid & elsewhere, but none are as clear & comprehensive as yours 👍.

Thank you so much for this awesome video + tutorial. That TCB slowdown at the beginning and end of animation was killing me!

Needed to delete a bunch of keys that some how got a fig and you saved me so much work! Thanks

Gee that's some seriously sneaky advanced view......! I used to have graphmate and that was a bit more intuitive. Thanks again fro yet another very helpful video! Appreciate that!

How it started with "who is this guy" and ended with "I like him so much"... I don't have a clue. ^_^ Thank you for your content.

You explained things exactly the way I needed. Thanks!

Very useful! Thank you! I used to have the Keymate, and Graphmate plugins, so its helpful to know how to access them.

thank you so much for all

You are amazing and a lifesaver! Thank you for these videos!

Amazing! really helpful. More video about animation with a real G8 figure would be great too.

Wow, I've been using Daz for... 5 years? Never knew about the advanced tools for the timeline! People even sell you add-ons in the Daz store to edit key frames, so I thought Daz did not come with this feature by default! (Although, being able to delete, copy or move key frames is more of a basic feature than an advanced feature.)

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Friend thanks for the video! I hope you can help me, I have some key frames with the letter "C" that I cannot delete from my time line or add new key frames, as soon as I add them or change from C to Linear they are erased and the new Key frames disappear. To be only that keyframe "C" in frame 0, do you have any idea how I can remove them permanently?

Such great content❤

I would like to know if I can do a narrator character for my video in Daz and how will I go about it I will like talking and some hands movements

more on the dope sheet functions and that scary hamburger menu!

Your tutorials are awesome! Could you share some insight on how to do animation with various camera shots (jump shots)? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!

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Thanks for showing me where the Timeline pane is. I couldnt find it. However, when I click on Timeline pane, it does not appear at the bottom of the page like your video, but instead appears on the right and overtakes the content library. How do I place the timeline on the bottom pane but keep the content library? Thanks

How can we easily find/change a property on a timeline, it it's not something selectable on viewport, like "mouth open" and hidden properties?

TCB= Taking Care Of Business.(Kramer Voice)

This is one I forgot how to do. Basically use DAZ Studio to make/produce copies of frames, without any major render time if any. That way you can quickly see how an animation will loop and what adjustments need to be made... You can do this in poser, but I forgot how to do it in Daz Studio? Help please

hello! i like ur videos, would like to ask how to delete the animation keys! can u make a video like holding object in character hands?

Hey Jay I'm good to this point, but, in the graph editor when you use the animations from the Daz store every frame has a key. You can edit them real easy for that reason. The problem is when I make my own animations like you did with this cube, only the frames with keys are editable. Is there any way to bring out the keys Daz creates in the background for interpolation or do I have to continue the tedious task of "ahead one frame create key frame" to have editable keys? Steph from Daz has a tutorial she posted a month or so ago that is great for learning the graph editor but as always only works great if you use Daz bought animations. Very frustrating if there's no way to bring out those other keys that Daz creates between the user created ones.

Thanks. How I can loop my animation? (like expressions in AE - loopOut("offset"))

Great video!! Can you do a video on rendering out a depth map? I thought Daz had a camera built-in to render a depth map but maybe I was mistaken. Thanks

Great video again. How can I make the simulation go slower. I want to pass an object from one side to the other, thanks.

Thats amazing thank you. Do you know a way to have a bezier handle to control the TCB of the keyframe in the graph editor?

"Other, different, scary window"....for a moment I thought he opened Blender.

Thanks this is very helpful. Is Keymate or Graphmate available in Daz 10 or 11 ?

I have a problem. I have two cards:1080ti and 1070. But they don't render together when i start final render. Only one works - 1080 ti. But in viewport mode they render together. Maybe you know why?

Is there a way to use reference footage/video of someone walking in DAZ, so that you can use it for animating? This way you can match the movement or timing. If so, do you have a tutorial on that?

Daz 3D forever

daz is such a mess for animation, it's easy when you only have rotation, but when you've animated multiple part of a character and you to move one of those keyframes, you need to move all of them one by one, it's awful

graphmate is better

Broken. Basic might as well be non existent as it has zero functions other than being a player. Intermediate is as useless in that doing any edit is impossible owing to the fact that every key, from every node and object is shown on the timeline regardless of what node/object is chosen in scene. To make a bad situation worse you cannot even delete keys in intermediate. Advanced is everything....even if you do not want or use everything. Past timeline example...you have an oops key in an forearm twist, click on forearm, skip to that key and delete. New way.....select forearm, skip to key, open properties, open general transforms, select twist, bend and side to side, delete. So a small repair to an animation went from 3 clicks, to 4 clicks, high lighting 3 keys, sometimes 6 and then clicking delete.... that is not progression. Not to mention the timeline with all the bells and whistles going takes up around half your screen making this program useless on smaller monitors and laptops. If they fixed intermediate to have the same function as it used to have then there would not be an issue but as long as the timeline is going to be a utility knife with so many utilities as to be useless for quick work then the latest Daz is only useful for rendering as all my work is done with a 4.10 portable. I can bust out a 20 second animation in a few hours in 4.10 and in that same period in 4.12 all I get is frustration. So here is my workflow, do all work in 4.10 portable, open up 4.12 public build and use it to render....you can render in beta while running 4.10 portable at the same time....this is the only time a 4.12 version is useful.

Thank you very much!