Timeline Keyframe!!!

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Hi,
I want to ask very simple question, how do I copy and paste keyframes? I only want to know copying and pasting a keyframe nothing else.

Thanks in advance
Regards

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Read the tool tips for these two buttons on the graph editor header.

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Thanks Richards and sorry for not mentioning the version. Seems like the screenshot is from v2.5 and I am still using 2.49. My connection is too slow to download. Sorry.

Regards

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There are buttons in the IPO editor window header to copy curves (up/down arrows). Not sure if these do exactly the same thing.

Richard

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I know that button, it is doing nothing, that’s why I asked this question, thought there might be some other way. I already finished my animation without copy/paste, there are some little jerks on some frames which could be possible to remove with copy/paste. Anyways, thanks for your reply. Regards

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Just tested 2.49b and you can use these buttons to copy selected keyframes but not as easily as in 2.56
See this demo http://www.screencast.com/users/blenderwho/folders/Jing/media/94cbf135-a8e6-4952-bd31-e304ba726682

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Thanks for your help Richard.

Regards

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In Blender, it is not copy/paste, it is duplicate grab move to new place on timeline.

So select the keyframe you want to copy and press SHIFT-D then move your mouse to the left/right to position (i.e. paste) the keyframe where you would like.

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I’m with Atom. The Shift+D duplicate option for keyframes is the way to go. Unless you need to move the keyframes to a different item, in which case the clipboards might be preferable.

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It should be noted that selecting and duplicating keyframes doesn’t work from the Timeline editor; only from the Graph Editor and Dopesheet.

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Could you kindly tell it a little clearly please, I don’t understand. What to move, where to move. If I see in the frame menu of timeline it says SHIFT-D is the hotkey for duplicating a marker!!! I don’t have any marker in timeline!!! Very confusing.

Regards

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My apologies. Fweeb is right: I was thinking of the Dope Sheet and Action Editors, not the Timeline. Richard’s advice is the way to go on this.

FWIW, creating a marker is quite simple. Make sure your timeline is active (your mouse cursor is hovering over it) and press M. A marker will be created at the active frame.

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Just downloaded the v2.56. And got the copy/paste :).

Thanks
Regards

EDIT: In blender 2.49 a dopesheet is called action editor. In 2.56 it is possible to copy/paste a selected keyframe but in 2.49 it needs to duplicate the keyframe and than move it to the required frame number and drop it. It was simple but I was so frustrated with copy/paste that I could not understood it. Sorry and thanks.