Change Reference Object That Is Cloned

[jimlolo]

I have a blob that I  painted. I then cloned it over the next 25 frames. Each frame I had to slightly change the position of the original blob by hand.

Now I see I want to alter that original blob. Is there anyway to avoid having to manually re-position every cloned blob inb each frame again?

Thanks.

[Jose Panadero]

Not sure if this could help you because you are not sharing any image and it seems difficult to visualize what you are telling us. Paint effects has a Paint on Transparent option in the Effects control panel. Probably you can activate this option to maintain your paint strokes and removing the original layer where you painted. Once you activate this option, add a copy of the original layer without the paint effect below the painted layer in your composition. Now you can move the painted layer without the need to reposition every individual paint stroke.

[jimlolo]

Not sure i get that.

Not sure how to be more clear. I have an object I painted on a transparent layer. . 1 stroke. That's all there is to it.

That1 paint stroke (the object) stays the same for 25 frames. It just moves around.I  want to do that with a different object I paint (1 different stroke), but I want it to follow where the original object I painted was. I tried to copy key position frames, but it didn't seem to work.

thanks.

[Jose Panadero]

You can trim the strokes inside your Paint effect to set their duration to 25f, even before creating them you can set the duration of your strokes in the Paint Panel.

Could you upload any screen capture of your timeline and composition panels?