Shaping a moment on stage
The stage plays the moment with the exported coordinated player: Play runs real playout, and the slider scrubs to any frame. ⇄ Reverse shows a switch the other way round. Below the stage, the timeline has a row for each part. Drag a bar's end to change its length, drag a movable bar (new content, room) to move it, or click a row to jump there. What morphs lists every element property that changes, with its values in both templates.
The inspector sets:
| Control | Choices |
|---|---|
| Style | Morph (elements glide, content crossfades), Authored animation, Slide, Wipe, Sequence, Dissolve, Cut |
| Speed | Snappy 0.45 s, Natural 0.64 s, Gentle 0.90 s |
| Feel | Smooth (ease in and out), Settle (ease out), Even (linear) |
| Use this for | Every moment of this kind in the lane, or Only this cell. Choosing the lane again removes the cell's own timing. |
Exact frames shows the frame fields for when old content leaves, when new content arrives and for how long, how long elements morph, and the hold after.
Incoming animation and Outgoing animation choose motion independently for a Take in, Take out or template switch. Transition style (default) keeps the selected style's behavior; Template animation plays that side's existing layer tracks without an extra whole-content fade. Other choices use the same built-in Animate In/Out presets and compatible installed animation plugins. Direction, distance, easing and plugin controls appear where applicable; the existing incoming/outgoing timing fields set duration.
Built-in/plugin overrides move the template's non-shared content as one unit, without rewriting its layer keyframes or playing its authored entrance/exit twice. Shared objects still morph between layouts. Score/text updates keep their existing update behavior rather than replaying an entrance. Retained plugin definitions stay pinned in the set, so a pack update/removal does not silently change playback. Exports bake ordinary tracks and need no installed animation pack. These selectors require Transition Logic version 5; older definitions keep their previous behavior.
Move elements parks the stage on the last frame and outlines the lane's elements where they land. Drag one to move it. The new position is kept as a deliberate difference from the template's layout; Checks doesn't report it as drift.