Player Module

Through this module you can take a look at your project as you build. With this resource, you can detect which parts of the timeline of your animation settings needed, add more frames, or perhaps change the speed at which images you want to flow, it all depends on you, remember you're the director!

Fig #25. Player Interface Module

Tip: Whenever you wish to check the player module, simply press the Ctrl + 2.

Fig #26. Player Module Shortcut

Okay, let's see what are the tools that are part of this module:

Control Panel
If you've ever used a DVD recorder or a stereo, you probably already know what the function of this component. That's right, thanks to this set of buttons you can play, stop and return your animation project as often as you want, which will surely be many, it is based on continuous observation and careful your work, you detect errors in your animation and make the respective adjustments, making the result is more fluid and that over time, your projects are more surprising.

Fig #27. Control Panel

Panel Properties
This panel, located on the bottom of the playback module, you will find the following resources:

  1. Information about the animation. Specifically, the name of the scene and the total number of frames that form, in other words, the sum total of every frame was drawn.
  2. FPS Control. We can define the speed of the animation, using the parameter frames per second (FPS: Frames Per Second, in English).
    Tip: The larger the value of this field, the faster will be the animation and the smaller, slower will look.
  3. Repeat option. This small selection box represents the ability to play our video indefinitely. That is, if we leave it enabled and press the Play button, the animation is repeated over and over until we decide to stop it.
  4. Export option. It allows us to make our animation project in a video file. For a better understanding of this feature, take a look at the section "Let's create a video file".

Fig #28. Panel Properties