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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1999
Michael C. Sheasby, Boucherville, CA;
Sylvain Moreau, Montreal, CA;
Daniel Desbois, Boucherville, CA;
Jean-Claude Bouchard, Sainte-Adele, CA;
Avid Technology, Inc., Tewksbury, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention advantageously provides for a method and system that is operable on a computer system, for selectively determining parameters values or keys to be made available to graphical imaging system to drive a animation application. The method includes receiving a Parameter Set (PSet) having a plurality of parameters corresponding to the animation application, assigning one or more of said parameters a value; marking a subset of said parameters, modifying the keys of only marked parameters according to the parameter's value, and running the animation application in response to the keys after marking.