VIDEO PAINT: CHAPTER ONE 259Performing Cut and Copy operationsWhen working on your project, you will often want to copy changes youhave made in one frame to others in the video sequence. To do this, youuse the Cut and Copy buttons on the Standard toolbar or the Edit: Cutand Copy commands. Copy duplicates a selected area or floating selectionwhile Cut removes it from the image. Once cut or copied, you can paste itinto the current frame or into another. When there is no selection area orfloating selection, Cut and Copy works over the entire image (in Compos-ite mode), or only edits (in Paint Layer mode.) If there are no edits, thenthe commands work over the entire image.Note:You can paste image data to and from Video Paint to any other image editorsuch as Ulead PhotoImpact. If pasting to PhotoImpact, any mask information isretained.Performing a paste operationOnce the Clipboard contains an image, either from Video Paint or anyother image editor, you can paste it into an edit window. To do this, clickthe Paste button on the Standard toolbar or Edit: Paste [ CTRL + V ]. Imagesare pasted at the same location they were cut or copied from. If the pastedimage was from a frame or other image larger than the active frame, thenthe image is pasted at the top left corner of the current view.Another option for pasting is the Edit: Paste - Selection Under Pointercommand. This pastes the image with the center of the image anchored toyour mouse pointer. Clicking anywhere within the edit window anchors theimage on that particular spot. The advantage of this command is that youcan position the pasted image without having to keep your finger on themouse button, providing greater freedom of movement.Pasting masksWhen you paste an image, it contains a selection area (mask) plus thecontents of the area itself (the image data). In Video Paint, you can chooseto paste only the mask without any image data by clicking Edit: Paste: AsMask or Mask Under Pointer. After pasting, all you will see is the
