Controlling where to paste items on the timeline

Hi Everyone,
Let’s suppose you have a timeline twelve seconds wide with two objects. Each object is three seconds in length. The first object is on the bottom of the timeline at the beginning. The second object is on the top of the timeline at the end. You now have a space of six seconds between the objects. Now you want to drop a third object of three seconds in length beginning at the six-second point. The new object needs to be above the bottom object but under the top object. Now let’s say you have ninety seconds of timeline packed with thirty-seven objects and you want to paste a new object in a particular place, say twenty-five seconds in just above layer twelve. How would you control exactly where the object is placed without having to drag it all over the place after pasting?
Thanks,
Robert

Hello and welcome,
I almost never use slides that are minutes long, why? And without any user control? Only reason to have a longer slide is when there is an audio clip, and you need to sync with audio. Spreading over multiple slides is much easier to handle and the user will not even see that there is a switch of slides.
And 37 objects: please group them in logical groups, having 37 timelines is not really easy to manage, hope you are labeling each object? And when a group is collapsed everything becomes better structured. You can drag timelines easily to put them in place. Stacking order is only important when those objects are in the same location at the same moment. Is that the case.
Maybe I don't understand your question well, but it seems not to fit quite well with Captivate as I am using it. When debugging, optimizing files I see way too much objects mostly. Why have an image, a text and a click box when you can have the three of them in one shape button? You can show objects for more than one slide (timed for rest of project) if you need them on subsequent slides, which will free up a lot of real estate in the Timeline panel as well.
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