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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Blick Fang on March 06, 2019, 04:46:15 pm

Title: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Blick Fang on March 06, 2019, 04:46:15 pm
Hi

I am working on a test animation which requires basically 2 movements but a lot of them.  I was able to select a range of frames.  But when I did a CTL-C and CTL-V, nothing happened.  Is this action possible?


Thanks
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Mactetra on March 06, 2019, 05:50:03 pm
I'm not sure if i understand your question. but if you want to copy and paste frames in the scene editor, you have to click on the timeline where you want to paste the frames.
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Steve on March 06, 2019, 08:18:12 pm
To copy and paste *keys*:

1) Select the frames that you want to copy by click-dragging, or click then click-shift, in the time track,
2) Select the rows for the keys that you want to copy in the left hand list of controllers,
3) Ctl-C to copy the keys, Ctrl-X to cut the keys,
4) Select the first frame of where you want to paste a copy,
5) Ctrl-V to paste.

This doesn't insert new frames, only adds keys. But if you paste frames that would go past the end of the scene you can extend the scene to include them in the dialog like this that appears:

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Paste extends past end of Scene.
Do you want to extend the Scene to make room?
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Yes   No   Cancel   
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Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Blick Fang on March 07, 2019, 12:23:46 pm
Hi Guys

I included this screen shot.  This guy would be picking a guitar (the actual guitar will come later)  I am experimenting with timing and such.  He is going to play a guitar solo, so he needs to pick fast and often.  I thought I could copy the keys of the hand doing the down and up motion.  Maybe I should be doing that in the sequence mode?   Hmmmm.  I WAS able to get the copy and paste results in sequence mode.  However, I decided I wanted to add a few more up and down movements.  And now its not letting me?
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Steve on March 07, 2019, 01:31:35 pm
Can you show the time track when you do the Copy? It would help me see what you're doing if you expanded the efigure01 details.

As shown in the image, no keys are selected. But if you did copy some keys then pasting them should work at the end of the scene, possibly extending it.
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Blick Fang on March 07, 2019, 01:39:24 pm
Hope this is what you meant.  I have included the actual .an8 file too
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Steve on March 07, 2019, 04:57:40 pm
OK I see the problem. When you paste a sequence into a scene that extends past the end of the scene, new keys are added but the scene is not extended to include the new keys. The new frames aren't functional and your project is kinda of broken.

Copy-pasting keys in the scene editor works (like I described above).

You can I'll fix this in the next drop. In the mean time you can fix this by extending the scene in the Scene->Properties dialog.

#101-026 - Sequences that go beyond the end of a scene don't extend the scene.
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Blick Fang on March 07, 2019, 05:19:14 pm
That makes a lot of sense!

I will try when I get home.

Thanks Steve!
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Steve on March 13, 2019, 05:26:08 pm
Blick Fang: I've posted a new development build 1356 (http://www.anim8or.com/download/preview/files/animcl1356.zip) with this problem fixed.
Title: Re: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: Blick Fang on March 13, 2019, 06:04:42 pm
Thank you, Steve!  8)
Title: Copying and pasting frames
Post by: KamDrerty on August 06, 2019, 09:28:38 am
See Sanders I did that and you got it to work here I could not neither could JD? But then it did work in the video section?
 Ah no big deal I guess just pasting the link will work. Thank yah.