clone: You can clone elements when you want to reuse the contents of an element, but create a different effect, like with the timing of the same drawings or with an element’s placement in the 3D space. Unlike duplicated elements, cloned elements and their original are linked. They both refer to the same content files in the animation set folder. When you modify one, the other is also modified. A clone is like the instance of a symbol. The symbol and the instance are the same in general but each instance can have certain properties that are unique to that instance and that it doesn't share with it's counterparts.
You can clone the following element types:

• Drawings
• Images
• Media
• Sounds
• Pegs
• Color Transform Effects
• Drop Shadow Effects

The contents of the cloned elements are shared, but you can change some of the properties of the clones without affecting the other clones.

• Drawing and Image Elements: the original and the cloned element both reference the same directory of files. Cloning drawing and image elements does not increase the file size of your final animation.

• Media: cloned media share the same content. You can reposition and change the start frame of media elements without modifying other clones.
• Pegs: the cloned pegs share control points and keyframes, and you can change the position of the peg in the 3D Sceneplanning space without affecting the clones. Cloning peg elements does not increase the file size of your final animation.
• Sounds: cloned sounds are exact copies. You can change any property in the sound clones without affecting other clones. Cloning sound elements does not increase the file size of your final animation.
• Color Transform Effects: clones are exact copies of the original, with the same keyframe and values. Changes to the keyframe values in any clone changes all other clones. You can change the start time of any clone without changing the others.
• Drop Shadow Effects: clones share the same the same color, position properties and element display setting. You can change the properties of any clone and change it in all other cloned Drop Shadow Effect elements.

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