Ive been using shot designer for quite awhile now, and mostly love it! One problem to workflow is that adding anything to the scene seems to default to being on ALL pages. It can become very time consuming to have to double click an object, then click the pages tab, then select the page I want the object or character placed on. Is there a selection somewhere where the default can be changed to “current page only”? I find i have to go back through all the pages and select the rogue character or object, because I forgot to tediously select a page I want it on. It makes sense in my mind that whatever I add should default to the page im working on, not across everything.
Hi,
You’re not the first to ask this, and it should be a trivial feature, so you should expect this feature.
Quick powwow, which implementation of this feature is least likely to be misunderstood? I’m thinking that it’s a checkbox in the Pages menu that says “Add To Current Page”, and it’s off by default. My logic would be that you’ll eventually forget which mode you’re in and be surprised to discover that you added all your objects wrong. A checkbox directly in the menu (as opposed to in some settings menu) would continuously remind you which mode you’re in. You’d also be likely to change the mode often.
Per
Thanks for the reply!
What you suggest is excellent! I also wonder if the option couldnt be available right at the “add character” or prop section. Meaning right after you select what you want to add, you have the option of which page. I would still keep the way it works currently as well, just in case things need to be re-ordered later, but being able to choose which page at the add portion would be a big help to faster workflow. For me anyways 
Thanks!
Hi,
I assume that this is then the same global setting just accessible from more places? And then the question is whether it would even need to be in the pages menu at all, since you’re only concerned with it when you’re creating new objects.
And I assume that duplicating objects would also duplicate the page settings for those objects?
Per
Yes. I find that adding to all pages is fine for blocking in the same set, where i want to keep sets and props across all pages, but multiple locations, where everything is different from location to location, is where the page selection grinds the workflow into 1st gear.
So yes, i believe everything should default to “current page” with the ability to then go into the pages menu and re order if need be.