Cut, copy, and paste clips

 
 
 

You can cut or copy a clip in the Trax Editor, or you can copy a clip from the Visor or Outliner to the Trax Editor. See Use the Visor with Trax and Use the Outliner with Trax.

After you cut or copy a clip, you can paste it to the same character set, or to a different character set that has similar attributes.

Note

Before you can copy and paste clips between characters, they must first be mapped. See Mapping animation between characters in the Character Setup guide.

To copy a clip

  1. In the Trax Editor, do one of the following:

A copy of the clip is placed in your system’s clipboard.

To cut a clip

  1. In the Trax Editor, do one of the following:

The clip is removed from its character and is placed in your system’s clipboard.

To paste a clip to the same character

  1. Do one of the following:

To paste a clip to a different character set

  1. In the Trax Editor, highlight the character to which you want to paste the clip. See Highlight characters, groups, or subcharacters in Trax.
    Note

    You should only copy and paste clips between characters if they have been mapped. See Mapping animation between characters in the Character Setup guide.

  2. Do one of the following:
    • -click the track where you want to paste the clip, and select Paste Clip from the menu that appears.
    • In the Trax menu bar, select Edit > Paste > .

    The Paste Clip Options window appears. See Paste.

  3. If the Paste Clip Options window is open, set the options and click the Paste Clip button.

To copy a clip from the Visor or Outliner and paste it in the Trax Editor

  1. For information on copying clips from the Visor or Outliner and pasting them in the Trax Editor, see Use the Visor with Trax and Use the Outliner with Trax.

To copy clips from your operating system’s file browser to your Maya scene

  1. In your operating system’s file browser, navigate to the .ma or .mb file that contains the clips you want to copy to your Maya scene.
  2. Drag the file containing the clips from the operating system’s file browser to the Maya scene view.

    The clips in the file you dragged are copied to your current Maya scene file and they appear in the Unused Clips tab of the Visor and in the Outliner.

You can now copy these clips from the Visor or Outliner to a character in the Trax Editor. See the previous procedure.