Moving objects with their animations

[Medimagery]

Frequently I need to move tweened motion objects on my stage, so that the entire object with its motions are simply moved to a different position.  Whenever I select and drag objects, it always drags a pink path behind and interferes with the object's intended motions so the old position becomes a part of the motion of the object. How can I move objects around the stage without creating a pink motion path from the past position to the new position?

(BTW one thing I tried was to click-drag select that object with its whole motion, on the timeline itself. But when I do this, the object disappears because the act of selecting the frames has scrubbed the timeline to a position where that object is no longer in the scene. So, then the object is no longer visible on the stage and I cannot move it to its new position)

Thanks!
Laura

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

How to move an entire animation at once

[Medimagery]

Thanks for this link!

[_keyframer]

Another useful technique is to copy/paste your timeline frames into a symbol and then drag an instance of the symbol to the stage on a new layer. Then this symbol instance containing your animation(s) can easily be scaled/moved. It's a technique called "nesting":.

[Medimagery]

Thank you both. These are excellent answers. This is the first time I've been really able to use "edit multiple frames" and onion skinning together in a useful way.