# Timeline

[Menu](/master/main-menu.md) / Timeline

Use the timeline to animate anything and playback animations.

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/bP_RY3letQg>" %}

### Real-time Animation

[Menu](/master/main-menu.md) / Timeline / Animation Mode Switch / Real-time

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/pMD_wAN3u-A>" %}

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJgtAnIYWE>" %}

When you’re holding an object while the recording mode is on—every movement of that object will be recorded in time; the timeline is playing along while you’re holding the object. As soon as you release the object—the timeline pauses.

Make sure that the real-time animation mode is turned on:

<div align="left"><img src="/files/-LnC0gg6_ao8dPEbXqow" alt="Hover over the recording button"></div>

<div align="left"><img src="/files/-LnC0k3onxRygq-ShIKJ" alt="Turn on the real-time animation mode"></div>

### Keyframe Animation

[Menu](/master/main-menu.md) / Timeline / Animation Mode Switch / Keyframe

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/pXFDY6W7wkw>" %}

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nYwcoV4xTM>" %}

When you grab and release an object in the recording mode—the object gets a key on the timeline at the current time. The key is keeping information about position, rotation, and scale of the object at that time.

### Set keys to all body parts

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/9SusZl1SJ3s>" %}

Use a mode called "Snapshot" so set keys to all body parts in a puppet.

### Duration

You can change duration of the timeline by grabbing and moving the duration control on the far right of the timeline.

### Tweens / Interpolations

You can set how an object is transitioning between given keys:

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsTkD2Vrp6s>" %}

### Animation Tracks

Select an object to see its animation tracks.

![](/files/-LnC20iRknOIOYibm5uZ)

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The blue boxes that are placed on tracks are animation clips & keys. Tracks and clips represent the time and duration of animated parameters, such as position of an object. On the left of each track, you can see an object name and a type of a track.

Most of tracks you will be working with will represent the position, rotation, and scale of an object.

When you’re recording an object in real-time, it will have a long, solid clip of an animation. Under the hood, it has a lot of keys inside that sometimes could be seen if you zoom the Timeline close enough.

### How to Delete Keys

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/eX3rxYpViZE>" %}

### Duplication of keys

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6Ej3IFNmo>" %}

Learn more [about duplication here](/master/interactions/duplicate.md).

### Timeline screen

The screen shows you the currently active camera or a play area. It allows you to reference a scene from a certain point of view and playback animations looking on them from cameras.

### Target cameras & viewers

<div align="left"><img src="/files/-LnC3N41llYdFxyMkCFT" alt=""></div>

Click on tabs to switch between target [cameras](/master/scene-tools/camera.md) and [viewers](/master/scene-tools/viewer.md) of the timeline.

You can also [montage cameras and viewers](/master/tools/timeline/montage.md).

### Teleport to cameras and viewers

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/qawgQF1A8vY>" %}

You can teleport to any camera and viewer on a scene by selecting "Teleport" in the context menu.

### Scrub the timeline from the controller

Scrub the timeline by holding the Play button and moving the controllers left and right.

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kq3BSxRns>" %}

### Export

<div align="left"><img src="/files/-LnC3iwqC35QghlCK39C" alt=""></div>

Press on this button to export [videos](/master/export/export-videos.md), [VR experiences](/master/export/export-vr-experiences.md), and [3D models](/master/export/export-3d-models.md) with animations.

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