Copying and pasting animations

Once you have an animation sequence that you like, you can copy it and paste it into another area of the current timeline, into another timeline in the same document, or into a timeline in another document. You can also copy and paste multiple sequences at once.

To cut or copy and paste animation sequences:

1. Click an animation bar to select a sequence. To select multiple sequences, Shift-click multiple animation bars; to select all sequences, press Control+A (Windows) or Command+A (Macintosh).
2. Copy or cut the selection.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Move the playback head to another spot in the current timeline.
   • Select another timeline from the Timeline pop-up menu.
   • Open another document, or create a new one, and then click in the Timelines panel.
4. Paste the selection into the timeline.

   Animation bars for the same object cannot overlap, because a layer cannot be in two places at one time (nor can an image have two different sources at a time). If the animation bar you are pasting would overlap another animation bar for the same object, Dreamweaver automatically shifts the selection to the first frame that doesn’t overlap.

There are two principles to keep in mind when pasting animation sequences into another document:

• If you copy an animation sequence for a layer and the new document contains a layer with the same name, Dreamweaver applies the animation properties to the existing layer in the new document.
• If you copy an animation sequence for a layer and the new document does not contain a layer with the same name, Dreamweaver pastes the layer and its contents from the original document along with the animation sequence. To apply the pasted animation sequence to another layer in the new document, select Change Object from the context menu and select the name of the second layer from the pop-up menu. Delete the pasted layer if desired. See Applying an animation sequence to a different object.