Would make my life 100x easier: Keep pasted objects in same loc'n
Sep 26, 2012
I wish I had a way of making it so that when I selected an object (like an illustrated character), chose copy, and then chose PASTE, that the newly pasted character would NOT be spaced downward and to the right but rather be in precisely the same spot. That would make it so much easier for creating continuity in changing expressions, poses, etc, using the timeline.
I know that for novices that could create confusion to have the pasted item be right on top of the previous. For that reason, perhaps something like a special "paste in same location" command, or a control-key to hold when pasting, would provide that different behavior.
That way I could just copy a person, paste it 4 times, drag to a new time, change his face, and do that with the others -- I would suddenly have a quite animated guy with 20x less of the hassle.
thx-eric
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I am thinking if there was a place in preferences or design, we could select whether we want "snap to center" or "freeform"....something like that.
4 years since the initial request and still no good solution? Simple stuff like this is always blowing out my production time. }:-(
Hi Jess,
I'm sorry that this is still causing you difficulty but there is not yet a change to this behavior, so if you'd also like to share your thoughts directly with our product team you can do so by sending along here.
Yeah, this is nuts. To get multiple duplicates to copy to the exact same space I duplicate them as many times as needed, the Align Center horizontal & vertical. I don't like having to "fake the funk" too much, but it looks like the only way to really get it to do what I want.
Thanks for sharing that tip here Mark, and as I mentioned to Jess there isn't a change in this behavior currently but you're welcome to share your thoughts and ideas as well in the form of a feature request.
For anyone following this thread and still looking for a solution, I too was looking for a keyboard shortcut or setting and in researching different threads/links, I came across the "Keyboard Shortcuts in Storyline" article (storyline 360) where it lists Ctrl+Shift+D to Paste object in the same place as the original object. I tried and confirmed that it works! HTH
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