ALT+drag copy/duplicate
I would like to see ALT+Drag to copy/duplicate for layers in the timeline and assets in the project panel. Its a standard function for the rest of the adobe suite and for some reason its missing from AE. There's not even an alternate function, its just missing. I understand holding alt and dragging selected key frames in the timeline does temporal stretch. so I see why it might be harder to implement for key frames without upsetting current functions. But, this seems to be a missing feature that would be widely appreciated for those of us that use the wider adobe tool set.
Michael Ricca
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Warren Heaton
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If I had $5 bucks for every time I've clicked and dragged with the option key in AE after just having come back from Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Premiere Pro I could buy a few shares of Adobe stock.
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Yinon Estikangi
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YESSS PLEASEEE
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Lena Green
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"keeping ALT+Drag behavior consistent in this case would be a simple way to help prevent a lot of soiled underwear" - THE TEA~
But yes please add this! -
Thomas Witte
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One big reason this is a good idea is that if you have ALT+Drag=Duplicate muscle memory and you're working quickly in AE, it gets pretty alarming when you start moving layers all over the place & screwing up your comp instead of duplicating them like you expect to do. I think keeping ALT+Drag behavior consistent in this case would be a simple way to help prevent a lot of soiled underwear.
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Michael Ricca
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Ctrl+D is the Duplicate command, but as the rest of the adobe suite also uses Alt+Drag to duplicate it becomes part of the work flow and should be implemented in AE.
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Marko Ivezic
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Try Ctrl+D
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Michael Foran
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It should be standard behavior in the Composition Window for ALT+Drag = Duplicate.