Paste by Cell

[MichRX7]

I think I posted this in the wrong forum area, so I am moving it here and removing the old post. Hopefully this is the right spot.

Paste by cell is not doing what I would like it to and am wondering if there is another way to achieve my results. To start I have a 7 node arch of single AC strands Node 1 is left, 4 is center of arch and 7 is right. I open a second instance of xLights and start a simple animation with 1 second timings and over 8  seconds I fade the arch from right to left using full on for each node, the on node 7 cell 2 I do a 7 cell fade, node 6 has 2 on cells then then next 6 fade, etc...

I want to grab the 7x8 grid and copy it (yep, I did do this, lol) then turn on paste by cell, go into a single time cell for nodes 1-7 and paste so it scales my 7x8 grid into a single timing cell (on each of the 7 nodes), but when I highlight and paste it pastes it 8 across ignoring what I want it to do.

Can this be done? Going to try and post the picture of the 7x8 to see if it clears up what I want to scale down into the single timing area.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Anvyz6B-R-i9gtseRQatbpWL-EsdYw?e=Y8qA77

[MichRX7]

I guess I could take my single timing and divide it into 8 even timings and try and paste, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the "Divide Timings" option to work. I tried to right click in the timing section, but the menu option is grayed out.

Ok, updating this. On my musical sequence it did let me divide the timing section into 8 timing sections and could paste by cell which does solve my issue. But it would be a lot easier if there was a way to paste that group into a single timing.

[Gilrock]

Well Paste by Cell means exactly that if you copy 8 cells it needs 8 cells to paste into.  Sounds like you really needed Paste By Time which ignores cell boundaries.

[MichRX7]

Well Paste by Cell means exactly that if you copy 8 cells it needs 8 cells to paste into.  Sounds like you really needed Paste By Time which ignores cell boundaries.

Thank you for the quick reply. The paste by time doesn't work because my animation test timeline might have cells that are 1 second long which in my arch example would take 8 seconds, and I want the animation to then scale into a cell that is 1 seconds long and take one second. Unless there is a way to grab the multiple effects in the 8 cells and scale them, but I haven't found that yet (of course I'm new to xLights, so maybe it does).

[keithsw1111]

Have you considered using ac mode and sequence there.

[Gilrock]

Just create a new timing track and have timings that fit the 8 effects into one cell.  Do a Paste by Time into that cell.  Then copy from that cell to do a Paste by Cell into the destination.  Sorry but its really not a normal thing that everyone does to make that a feature.