Time Slider and Track Bar
Running across the bottom of the 3ds Max UI are the time slider and the track bar, as shown earlier in Figure 1-1. The time slider allows you to move through any frame in your scene by scrubbing (moving the slider back and forth). You can move through your animation one frame at a time by clicking on the arrows on either side of the time slider or by pressing the < and > keys.
You can also use the time slider to animate objects by setting keyframes. With an object selected, right-click on the time slider to open the Create Key dialog box, which allows you to create transform keyframes for the selected object.
The track bar is directly below the time slider. The track bar is the timeline that displays the timeline format ...
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