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User Guide > Animation > Animation > Nonlinear Animation > Create clips and poses > 

Duplicate clips

You can duplicate a clip to create a dependent—also known as an instance—or independent copy of the original source clip. If you create an independent duplicate, you can modify the animation of the original source clip without affecting the duplicate. If you create a dependent duplicate, then any modifications you make to the animation of the original source clip propagates to the dependent clip. The benefit of creating dependent clips is that you can change all the dependent clips on multiple characters with just one edit to their parent clip.

To duplicate a clip

1. In the Trax Editor, select the clip that you want to duplicate.
2. Do one of the following:
   • In the Trax menu bar, select Edit > Duplicate > .
   • -click the clip and select Duplicate Clip > from the menu that appears.

   The Duplicate Clip Options window appears. See Duplicate.

3. Turn on Duplicate Input Connections to create an independent duplicate clip, or turn off Duplicate Input Connections to create a dependent duplicate clip.
4. Turn on Duplicate Time Warp Curve to create independent copies of the selected clip’s time warp curves for the duplicate clip, or turn on Instance Time Warp Curve to create dependent copies of the selected clip’s time warp curves for the duplicate clip.
5. Set the rest of the Duplicate Clip options and click the Duplicate Clip button.

   If you turned on Put Copy in Trax Editor and Visor, the duplicate clip appears in a new track below the original clip’s track and in the Visor.

   If you turned on Put Copy in Visor Only, then the duplicate clip is placed only in the Visor.