Neil Stratton Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Hi all-not sure if this is possible but if there is a way it would save me some time. I am used to working with After Effects compositions where I copy a composition then replace items within that comp.I would like to do the same in WO.I am running version 5.1. In my current WO show I have 18 compositions which all have the same moves, timings etc and what I want to is take Composition 1, duplicate it , then change the media items within it.Cant find a way to do this.Any ideas? Many thanks Neil Stratton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adela Kriland Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Hi Neil, Yes just select all the media in the composition, make a new composition and copy all the media in the new one, just rename it. If you want to copy to another show, just copy the composition cue ( meaning when is on a layer already) to another show. Hope this helps. Best regards Adela Kriland Omagica AB adela@omagica.com www.omagica.com Dataton Center http://www.dataton.com/contacts/1059/#1059 +46 8 590 712 02 +46 70 549 08 04 mobile Box 5012, 19465 Upplands Vasby Sweden Mexico www.omagica.com.mx mexico@omagica.com +52 55 50149010 +52 55 1209-0900 EXT 107 +52 55 50149007 Mob 04455 35773537 Chile Hernan Godoy www.omagica.com/esp chile@omagica.com +56 99 4445-806 Argentina www.omagica.com/esp argentina@omagica.com HISPANOAMERICA www.omagica.com/esp 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Stratton Posted February 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Excellent! Why didn't I think of that...... I know- I've been working far too long. Thanks Adela Neil 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member matkeane Posted February 20, 2012 Member Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Copy-pasting the media into a new composition works, but you still have to set up the size and position for each new composition, which quickly gets boring if you're faced with creating over 20 duplicates and don't want to use the default values. Not sure if this is the best way to make a feature request, but a 'duplicate' command would often be very handy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Svahnberg Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Indeed. The forum is a an excellent medium to post feature requests. Thanks for your input. In this specific case (duplicate media items) it has been already been noted. Best regards, Fredrik Svahnberg Dataton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Stratton Posted February 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 That's exactly what I could do with Matkeane. My solution has been to copy the composition (1) and its attributes and paste it on the timeline.Then I create a new composition (2), and copy the cues from the original composition (1) into this new composition (2).Then I drag the new composition(2) onto the old composition (1) on the timeline and now I have a composition (2) with the same attributes but different media cues. And Fredrik good to hear you are looking into this. Many thanks Neil Stratton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Stratton Posted February 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 And maybe you could start a sticky for people to drop feature requests into? Cheers Neil Stratton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Stratton Posted February 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 My first would be to be able to solo a layer.I can switch layers off but to be able to solo a layer would be very useful. Or am I missing something... Thanks Neil Stratton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mshaub Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 It's a little bit of a hack, but I just tried this on a whim. Copy a composition, open up a text editor like notepad and paste. I searched for the Comp name, modified it slightly, copied all the text, and pasted it back into Watchout. Bam! New copy of my comp, everything identical except the name. Maybe I'll get adventurous and try using the text editor to tweak other settings inside the comp... Hope this helps someone else! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mith Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Copy and past to notepad is REALLY USEFUL, thanks mshaub (y) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fahl Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 My first would be to be able to solo a layer.I can switch layers off but to be able to solo a layer would be very useful. Or am I missing something... You can kinda-sorta do this by shift-clicking the "sunshine" icon on the layer to turn all layers off, then click it again without shift to turn on only this layer. Not quite a solo button but can be useful in a pinch. Mike 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Stratton Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Thanks for that Mike! And nice tip mshaub.Just caught up with this thread again! Thanks Neil 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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