How does the animation time line works with the arrow keys or what?
and why is there a line next to the orange dot.
and why is there a line next to the orange dot.
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Hello @Anton, I’ve changed the category of your topic and corrected the title.
Please use the correct category when making topics.
Animation is described and explained in the manual here:
Animation with Krita — Krita Manual 5.2.0 documentation
The horizontal line indicates a Held Frame.
There are many tutorial videos on YouTube for animation in krita.
Hello @Michelist 
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OK thanks but I do not understand this horizontal line can I delete the frame?
That horizontal line indicates that the contents of frame-6 will be held and presented for frame-7.
That is a good thing.
You have keyframes with content at frame-2, frame-4 and frame-6.
You have made empty keyframes at frame-0, frame-1, frame-3 and frame-8.
Your artwork at frame-2 will be shown for frame-2 and then a blank image will be shown for frame-3.
That is a bad thing and gives flickering images in the animation.
The Held Frames are created automatically because they are a very good thing to have.
Thanks but you missed frame 7 what is that strange horizontal line ?
Ok but i have empty frames to slow down the animation.
I’m not sure, but I think you can use a function to repeat a frame for such purposes. Sorry, I do not animate, so I’m not the best helper in this terrain.
And if that function does not exist, you can simply copy a frame and put that instead.
Michelist
The line in Frame 7 means it will keep showing the content from the previous frame, (frame 6), unless you stop it by adding another key frame, or an empty frame. You have added a blank frame in Frame 8 so your frame 6 will show for frame 6, and continue automatically into frame 7, then will stop because frame 8 is blank. If you hadn’t stopped it with a blank frame in Frame 8, it will continue showing Frame 6’s content indefinitely until you stop it.
If you don’t want Frame 6 to show in Frame 7, then click on Frame 7 and create a blank frame and it will stop it.
If you don’t want Frames to automatically continue unless told otherwise, then you can turn this function off by going to the 3 lines drop down menu at the right of your timeline, go to the Auto Frame settings to the right of the settings for ‘clip start, clip end and frame rate’, and select ‘autokey blank’ instead of autokey duplicate.
Yes, you can use the keyboard arrow keys to go back and forth on the timeline.
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If you want to slow the animation down you can change the frame rate to a lower number, or do two frames before a change. The human eye can’t really detect the difference between 24 frames a second or 12, so doing 12 will save you a lot of time. If you have a frame, then a blank frame, and so on, it will flicker as well as slowing down. If that is the effect you want, then of course that’s great and my other comment tells you how to auto create the blank frames between each one instead of having the auto ‘held’ frames (which show as that line), but if you’re only adding the blank frames to slow down the animation, I suggest you alter the frame rate or double up on your keyframes rather than having intermitted blank ones, to keep it smooth.
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Trying again:
See previous explanations.
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