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One of the ways I do this is pretty straightforward With the Free Cut Brush I cut the image with my mouse, take it to the layer with the sequence of images I need to paste the image upon, hold the image in place and click, using my "go to next instance" key, I advance to the next instance, click on mouse/paste, advance, paste, advance paste and it's done. Surely I must be doing something wrong and so I ask, fellow community forum users, for your advice. I know that I can create a new layer and place the bit on that layer and then merge and then "recompute many incidents into one incident with several exposures", but it's a heck of a lot of steps to just paste something. How does hitting paste make the selected incidents disappear? In fact, it replaces the incidents with a single new blank incident with only the selected bit on it and nothing else. I hope I have properly explained this simple task, which is exactly how I would do it any other graphics app, like Photoshop. All the incidents disappear from the timeline! Yikes! Thank goodness for undo! I expect that bit of selected artwork to be pasted on to the other images, but the strangest thing happens. Select, copy and then select a range of incidents and hit paste.
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So I select an area of artwork using the lasso and I want to copy it on to a number of other incidents.
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Not incidents on the timeline, but artwork in the incident. This concerns the simple task of copying and pasting. Is it me? This may be related to a previous question, but not specifically. I am often so amazed at what TVPaint does, but when I encounter a basic function that seems to not work, I am baffled.