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Getting started

• Installation
• Starting the SFM
• Sample beginner's workflow
• Basic operations

The UI

• UI overview
• Adjusting the layout
• The Animation Set Editor
• The viewport
• The timeline
  • The Clip Editor
  • The Motion Editor
    • The floating modification layer
  • The Graph Editor

Working with cameras

• Cameras overview
• Adding a scene camera
• Navigating with the camera
• The viewport as manipulator

Populating your scene

• Populating your scene overview
• Movie mode and game mode
• Recording gameplay
  • Recording multiplayer gameplay
  • Recording gameplay with bots
• Working with objects
  • Adding objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Removing objects
  • Copying elements between shots

Video editing

• Video editing overview
• Working with shots
  • Creating shots
  • Manipulating shots
• Manipulating the timeline
• Working with sound
  • Track groups
  • Adding sound clips
  • Recording new dialog
• Working with effects and overlays
• Selecting time

Manipulating objects

• Manipulating objects overview
• Puppeteering
• Facial animation
  • Lip-sync animation and Extract Phonemes
• The Preset Slider panel and the Control Slider panel
  • List of procedural presets
  • Advanced presets
• The translation manipulator
• The rotation manipulator
• The screen manipulator
• Working with locks
• Importing game animation
• Working with IK rigging
• Keyframing

Final Picture

• Final Picture overview
• Progressive refinement
• Working with lighting
• Exporting
  • Rendering at 1080p

Troubleshooting

• Common issues and questions
• Bug reports

Advanced topics

• Working with the Element Viewer
  • Conforming
• Command-line startup options
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Making custom rigs
  • Python script commands
• Making custom color-correction files
• Setting up Screencast
• Shot commands and convars