May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
778 pages
23h 58m
English
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Copying and Pasting Properties
Sometimes you want to copy the properties from one property keyframe to another. For example, in the exercise on Tweening a Symbol's Dimension Properties, you used identical W and H properties to keep the wheel the same size and shape. The first keyframe and the first property keyframe had the same values. Anytime you want different keyframes to have the same properties, you can copy and paste property settings, just as you copy and paste words in a word processor. Follow these steps:
Ctrl-click (⌘-click) the property keyframe with the properties you want to copy.
The selected cell shows a dark blue highlight.
Right-click (Control-click) the selected frame.
A shortcut menu appears—the copy and paste properties commands are near the bottom.
Choose Copy Properties from the shortcut menu.
All the properties related to the property keyframe are stored, so you can paste them into another frame.
Ctrl-click (⌘-click) the frame where you want to paste the properties.
A shortcut menu appears (Figure 3-22). You can paste the properties to any frame; it doesn't have to be a property keyframe.
Choose Paste Properties to paste all the properties to the new property keyframe.
If necessary, a new keyframe is created, and all the properties are transferred to the new keyframe. Your work is done. If you want to paste only some of the properties, then see the next steps.
Figure 3-22. The ...
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