Copy Layers in Selection to Separate Layer ?

Is there a keyboard short-cut which takes all layers which are inside a selection and copies it to a new flattened layer ?

You wrote:
What I mean is, the composition is made up of layers. I have made a marquee selection, all the layers within the marquee I want to flatten and copy to a new layer,
1. Choose all the layers from which you want to include a selection
2. Make the selection, as shown in the middle image
3. Edit > Copy Merged
4. Cmd+J
With the selected flattened section moved to another position:

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Re: Can you copy layers from one scene and paste them in another???

you can very easily duplicate scenes also :)
try opening the Scenes panel :)
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meesh meesh wrote:
> And if so....how?
>
> (and if so...will they be placed in the same position as
the others...or will I have to re-position them?)
>
> thanks!

I don't think you can copy layers – at least not in the
way you are thinking.
But you can select frames or a range of frames and then
copy/cut frames.
In the new document you can then paste frames. It has a lot
of variations depending upon how you many you copy, if there are
multiple layers, what area you select before pasting and so on. It
would take a lot to describe and I'm not sure I would describe it
properly.
Generally just give it a try and get an intuitive feel for
it. The choices are available from the Edit menu but also from a
right click.
It is also possible to slect and edit multiple frames so if
you do need to move a bunch of things on different key frames that
is also possible.

Can you copy layers from one scene and paste them in another???

And if so....how?
(and if so...will they be placed in the same position as the
others...or will I have to re-position them?)
thanks!

I don't think you can copy layers – at least not in the
way you are thinking.
But you can select frames or a range of frames and then
copy/cut frames.
In the new document you can then paste frames. It has a lot
of variations depending upon how you many you copy, if there are
multiple layers, what area you select before pasting and so on. It
would take a lot to describe and I'm not sure I would describe it
properly.
Generally just give it a try and get an intuitive feel for
it. The choices are available from the Edit menu but also from a
right click.
It is also possible to slect and edit multiple frames so if
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is also possible.

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