Members copied to the clipboard are only references, so Director needs the first movie closed to be allowed to get the cast members out them.
One can use 1 copy of Director & use the hmovie history menu to keep going back and forth between the old & new movie. If you use 2 instances of Director, then doing New after the copy frees up that movie (& therefore the copied members) for pasting into the other instance. Then you can click back into the first instance & reopen the same movie from the movieHistory menu list. It's a little bit quicker. Tab's method about using Save As (to make a copy of the source movie) & then deleting unnecessary stuff from the copy is also a good one. The most 'reusable members' solution is to push the desired members into a 'floating cast' (unattached to the main movie). For selected members, open the floater and drag the desired members out. For all of them, just link it to any movie. hth -Buzz At 10:04 PM -0400 10/4/01, Tab Julius wrote: >Unless I'm misspeaking, you open a copy of Director, open the movie, >copy the stuff you want, open the movie you want to paste to, paste, >and it's there. I hope I'm not confusing this with just copying >from a cast, but give it a shot. If all else fails, use "save as" >to save a reduced "starter point" for your new movie. > >- Tab > > >At 01:45 AM 10/5/01 +0000, Madeline Booth wrote: >>Thank you all for the very quick response. I need to do quite a >>massive overhaul of my Director movie and in as fast a time as >>possible. >> >>>Select a bunch of cast members (or score info), create a new movie, >paste. >> >> >>How do I open two movies at the same time? >> >>How do I select the score info? It doesn't look like Microsoft Word >>to me when I can select something, then copy and paste. >> >>By the way I am on Windows using Director 8. >> >> >>Madeline > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
