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Where is my Compass?
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Having trouble with the Time Line

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How do I import scenes at a designated point in the time line?
And how do I cut from scene to scene?
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Rasheed
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Post by Rasheed »

You can't. Anime Studio is a character animation program, not a video editor.

There are workarounds, though. Such as using layer visibility, layer translation, and camera motion. You import the layer and keep it invisible until you need it, or you put it outside the frame with either layer translation, or using the built-in camera.

Those involve a lot of work, though. I think it is more productive to create only one scene per file, reuse your characters, and use a lot of files. It is much easier to do revisions also, because you only have to revise small files, instead of a file that contains your entire project. Use a video editor to combine the scenes.
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Post by synthsin75 »

Both are done with layer visibility. Make a scene visible where you want it to start, and turn the visibility off on the previous scene.
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Post by Where is my Compass? »

Thanks for the info.
I began to wonder if I'd missed anything, now I know thanks again.
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