It would be helpful to be able to create a single set of animation settings and apply it to multiple elements. I have three use cases in mind:
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Create a folder of elements and apply an animation to each element in that folder (the timing should/could still be different for each item). Similar to applying layer styles to folders in Photoshop.
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Create an animation template that can be applied/“attached” to multiple elements such that each one is optionally (via a checkbox) updated automatically when the template is modified.
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Be able to set some parameters and apply them to an arbitrary group of elements, such that the elements in that group can be added dynamically, either by user interaction (e.g., a custom action that generates sprite elements that get added to a looping sequence) or after rendering (e.g., a CMS that generates an unknown number—at time of export in Hype—of elements dynamically added to a sequence).