Copying and Pasting Keyframes

Copying and pasting keyframes or a group of keyframes (animation curves) eliminates the need for manually duplicating your creative accomplishments. With copying and pasting, you only need to set up a keyframe or an animation curve once and then you can reuse it as many times as your project demands. With Lustre, you can easily copy a single keyframe or animation curves from a source channel or folder (group of channels) and paste them in a target channel or folder in the Channel hierarchy.

You can copy and paste any keyframe or animation curve from any channel to any other channel.

Note: A red dot next to a channel or folder indicates keyframes or animation curves have been applied.

There are three different tools you can use to perform a copy and paste procedure:

• The user interface. See About the Copy/Paste Keyframe Controls.
• Keyboard shortcuts. See About Copy/Paste Keyboard Shortcuts.
• The Autodesk Control Surface (ACS). See the Autodesk Control Surface User Guide.

There are four main ways to copy and paste keyframes:

• On the current frame. See Copying and Pasting Keyframes on the Current Frame.
• All of the keyframes in the shot. See Copying and Pasting All Keyframes in a Shot.
• A manual selection of keyframes. See Copying and Pasting a Selection of Keyframes.
• Over a selection of keyframes. See Copying and Pasting Over a Selection of Keyframes.

In the case where you want to create a dissolve using keyframes, you can paste a sequence of keyframes that exceeds the target shot boundary.

See Pasting a Keyframe Sequence That Exceeds a Shot Boundary.