---
title: "Key Properties"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/CKDOODLE-ID_CKEY_PROPERTIES.html"
section_path: "Animate > Timeline > Menu > Create > Add Special Tracks > Keys and Special Keys > Doodle Key > Key Properties"
element_id: "CKDOODLE"
group_id: "ID_CKEY_PROPERTIES"
description: "This option fixes the key at the current time and thus protects it against unintentional movement, for example."
---

## Key Properties

### Key Time

Parameter ID: `ID_CKEY_TIME`

The key is shown in this frame of the animation.

### Lock Time

Parameter ID: `ID_CKEY_LOCK_T`

This option fixes the key at the current time and thus protects it against unintentional movement, for example.

### Breakdown Color

Parameter ID: `ID_CKEY_BREAKDOWNCOLOR`

See [Breakdown Color](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/CKVALUE-ID_VKEY_PROPERTIES.html.md).

### Mute

Parameter ID: `ID_CKEY_MUTE`

This mutes the key, which means that none of the stored values of these keys are evaluated in the time intervals between these muted keys. Instead, the values of the neighboring keys that are not **muted** continue to be evaluated. The effect is therefore as if the muted keys were not there at all. This can be used, for example, to temporarily deactivate the secondary movements of an animation in order to concentrate on the key poses of the remaining active keys and, for example, to be able to fundamentally examine their timing.

### Breakdown

Parameter ID: `ID_CKEY_BREAKDOWN`

See [Breakdown](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/CKVALUE-ID_VKEY_PROPERTIES.html.md).

### Image

Parameter ID: `CK_DOODLE_PREVIEW`

The sketch is displayed here. If you click on the **>** button, a list opens with all the sketches available in the working memory. Select one of them to replace the current one.

### Title

Parameter ID: `CK_DOODLE_TITLE`

### Description

Parameter ID: `CK_DOODLE_BODY`

You can change the two parameters here (this is also possible in the Doodle object itself).