Tips on working with clips and referencing

[user_deleted]

Hey all -
Is there anyone out there who'd be willing to give me a pointer or two on the pitfalls of using animation clips with referenced files?
In particular, I'm finding that I can no longer copy and paste clips by node name when 2 characters are in a different namespace. is there a way around this that is not a huge tedious workaround?

My workflow so far requires me to copy a clip from one character:

clip -copy;

and paste it to another character that has the same node names.
So using the mel command clip, and map method "byNodeName".

// to traxx
$targetChar = "BOB";
clip -allRelative -pasteInstance -sc 1 -startTime currentTime -q -mapMethod byNodeName $targetChar;

[user_deleted]

ok I solved that first bit... just by renaming the nodes to be in the same namespace temporarily, doing clip -copy and clip -paste, and then renaming back.
it's not pretty but works I guess.... but I do feel I'm doing something wrong here...