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(3) For jumps, mark the last grounded frame and first landing frame, add a ballistic trajectory to the centre of mass, adjust height, distance and time, and snap the centre of mass to it; ballistic ghosts coloured purple show non-physical rotation. (4) Physics priority frames hold chosen poses, but too many reduce accuracy and slow the simulation. Connection to craft. This is the animation principle of weight and balance made checkable (the docs frame it as making motion adhere to physics; the principle names are inference). Failure modes. Over-marking priority frames. Limitations. No Cascadeur session was run; the docs describe the tool at the version online at fetch. Version/date. Fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Vendor help page; the version it documents is not stated in the fetched text. 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