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The timeline

The timeline panel sits under the canvas and shows when the current slide’s motion happens. One track per element, in layer order; one bar per animation, colored by phase: enter, during, exit. The panel opens by default; its header collapses it.

Bars: retime and trim

Section titled “Bars: retime and trim”

Drag a bar to retime its animation: the drag writes the animation’s delay, so it works the same for every trigger form. Drag an edge to trim the duration; the left edge moves the start too. One drag is one undo step. A slide with no animations shows a one-line offer to add a first fadeIn.

Keyframes: the diamonds

Section titled “Keyframes: the diamonds”

A keyframes animation draws a diamond per stop. Click a track at the playhead to insert a stop there, interpolated between its neighbors. Drag a diamond to move its stop; stops never cross. Delete removes the selected stop, and a two-stop bar loses the whole animation, because one stop is not a keyframe animation. Trimming a bar rescales authored stop positions proportionally.

Select a diamond and the inspector grows a Keyframe section with the stop’s full field set: position, scale, rotation, opacity, color, origin, and the easing of the outgoing segment.

The Animate panel

Section titled “The Animate panel”

The inspector’s Animate section lists the selected element’s animations from the same model the timeline draws, so the two can never disagree. Each row edits duration, ease, trigger, and offset, and removes. Add opens a searchable picker of every preset, grouped by phase. Triggers cover the keyword forms (auto, previous, scene start, scene end) and the anchor forms (“when X ends”, “when X starts”); anything authored beyond that shows as a read-only custom trigger rather than being flattened.

Section titled “Trigger links”

A bar with a cross-element trigger draws an elbow connector from its trigger’s bar, labeled with the offset (+12f). Drag the small handle at a bar’s top onto another bar to create a link: the editor mints the anchor and writes the trigger in one undo step. Re-drop to retarget, or delete the link to return the animation to automatic timing. A drop that would create a timing cycle is refused before it can break the deck.

Build markers: click steps

Section titled “Build markers: click steps”

Markers on the ruler split the slide into presenter click steps, in exact parity with the presenter’s own step compiler: marker k sits where step k settles. Double-tap the ruler to split a step, drag a marker to re-balance two steps, drag it off the ruler (or press Delete) to merge. When a step plan is invalid, the panel header names the problem and the offending bars outline in the error color.

Scrub and transport

Section titled “Scrub and transport”

The ruler’s playhead is the one clock: the canvas, the ruler, and the readout always agree on the frame. Scrub to seek; the stage holds the exact frame. The header plays and pauses, and Shift-drag on the ruler arms a loop over a range (Escape clears it).

Space is contextual. With the panel open it toggles playback. With the panel closed it steps the slide the way a presenter click would, landing on each build step’s settled state, and walks into the next slide past the last step.

The notes strip

Section titled “The notes strip”

Under the timeline sits the speaker-notes strip: prose plus highlight bullets per slide, with per-step scopes when the slide has build markers. What you type here is exactly what the speaker window shows. Step text replaces the slide text; step highlights append.

Where to next

Section titled “Where to next”