How do you change the frame range of the timeline?

[gwyneth_c]

I want to export my scene as a looping gif, but I have a many empty frames after all my layers. How do I trim the timeline down and change the range so that when I export the gif, there is no blank space at the end?

Thanks so much!

[robdillon]

Animate will use the last frame in the timeline as the end of the timeline. If you have unused frames in one or more layers of your timeline, Animate will think that you want those frame included. You can select those unused frames and delete them and shorten your timeline.

Select the first unused frame and then Shift click on the last unused frame, then you can right click on that selection and choose "Delete frames". You can do this one layer at a time or select frames across many layers at the same time.

[gwyneth_c]

@robdillon I do not see "delete frames" when I do this.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

It's Remove Frames that Rob meant, and you don't seem to have any frames to remove. All the blank timeline to the right of your last occupied frame shouldn't go into the exported GIF.

[robdillon]

Like Colin said, there are no frames in the selection. If you only need part of your current file to be in the GIF, then you can select the frames that you want, copy those frames, and layers, and paste them into a new file. Then use that new file to export your GIF.