copy and paste parts of timing tracks

[everettdale]

I'm putting together a sequence with singing faces that has a chorus that repeats 4 times. For the life of me I can't figure out how to copy a chunk of the timeline that the faces are using. For whatever reason I can't seem to be able to select more than one phrase, word, or phoneme at a time. I've searched and all I find is "select the part you want" or "with your mouse draw a yellow box around what you want to copy" How? How do I do this magic?

 

[Skymaster]

Untick all timing tracks first.


Then you will get the ability to multi-select

 

[everettdale]

Untick all timing tracks first.
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Then you will get the ability to multi-select

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Gotcha. Not intuitive, but I get it now. Thanks that saves a ton of time.

 

[Mark_M]

Skymaster beat me to it....
But this screen recording isn't going to waste now .

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqURvXZDKYM

 

[Mark_M]

Not intuitive, but I get it now.

It's a timing track that's changing the behaviour of selecting. The radial button is fairly obvious to select/deselect a timing track.
I can't think of another way how selecting would change.

 

[Indigogyre]

When copying it could be useful to create a new view that limits seeing only the "source" and "Destination" props. That will reduce the noise and chance of dropping it where you do not want. Just a small tip that might or might not help.

 

[everettdale]

It's a timing track that's changing the behaviour of selecting. The radial button is fairly obvious to select/deselect a timing track.
I can't think of another way how selecting would change.

CTRL click, Shift click, or Alt click would be more intuitive, but de-selecting and re-selecting the radio button works just fine, I just couldn't figure it out.

 

[everettdale]

Skymaster beat me to it....
But this screen recording isn't going to waste now .

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqURvXZDKYM

Nicely done. I'll watch it often to drive up the YouTube views for ya.

 

[everettdale]

When copying it could be useful to create a new view that limits seeing only the "source" and "Destination" props. That will reduce the noise and chance of dropping it where you do not want. Just a small tip that might or might not help.

I think that will be helpful actually. thanks

 

[orlandoal]

@Skymaster @Mark_M

Thank you, i was also wondering how to do that, going to make my singing faces/trees editing a whole lot easier.