Locking and Hiding Channels (and how to get them back)
Locking and Hiding Chanels
To clean up your scene / rig it is usefull to lock and hide channels you will not be animating. Especially on contols: some should only be rotated, translation and scale should be hidden for those.
- Select the name of the channel(s) to be hidden in the channel box
- Right click on them and and choose Lock and Hide Selected or use the Channels manu at the top of the channel box to access the same command.
How to get them back
It will often happen that you prematurely hid someting or get a scene from somebody else only and find channels missing from the channel box
- In the channel editor, go to Edit → Channel Control
- You can move channels using the arrow buttons back to keyable/unhidden/unlocked
Here is a movie somebody made, illustarting it with muzak: