Timeline & motion
Edit time, keyframes, clips, transitions, captions, and presentation stops.
Keyframes
Keyframes are the diamonds on each property track in the Studio timeline. You add, move, copy/paste, ease, and delete them to animate any property over time.
The graph editor
The graph editor is an After-Effects-style curve editor for selected keyframes — drag bezier handles to shape easing precisely instead of picking a preset.
Transport, tools, snapping & zoom
The Studio timeline header holds the playback transport, the select/razor tools, snapping, and the time-axis zoom — the controls you use constantly while animating.
Duration & FPS
The timeline’s duration either auto-tracks the longest layer (a green “auto” badge) or is locked to a fixed length; the FPS preset sets the frame grid for stepping and quantization.
Precomps & the timeline switcher
The Studio timeline can hold multiple named timelines and nested precomps. The switcher renames/duplicates/saves/deletes timelines, and AE-style breadcrumb tabs navigate in and out of precomps.
Align edits with Studio timeline snapping and zoom
Use snapping for exact timing alignment and change only the timeline’s horizontal scale when you need frame-level precision or a whole-composition overview.
Recording keyframes live
Record mode captures keyframes as you scrub or play and change properties — a fast way to author motion by performing it rather than placing diamonds by hand.
Animate an image sequence by frame number
Use the Sequence lane’s Frame property to scrub or keyframe a frame-folder animation with a meaningful clip duration.
The Timeline (Focus & Studio)
The timeline animates your design. In Focus it’s a beginner NLE with clip lanes; in Studio it’s an after-effects-style editor with layers, keyframes, and a graph editor.
Navigate and review time with the Studio transport
Control playback without losing editing context: play or pause, jump to the composition boundaries, move between keyframes, and loop a section while reviewing motion, timing, or audio.
Trimming & splitting clips
Layer strips can be moved and trimmed by dragging; the razor/split tool cuts a layer or track at the playhead so you can retime parts independently.
Presentation stops
Stops are pause points you drop on the timeline (website mode). Playback halts at each stop until the viewer advances — turning a timeline into a click-through presentation.
Layers, visibility, lock & mute
The Studio timeline’s layer tree mirrors your elements. Expand a layer to reveal per-property tracks, and toggle visibility, lock, and (for audio) mute.
Captions (video)
In video projects the timeline can generate captions: it mixes the audio, transcribes it, and writes timed caption segments you can edit and style.
Apply Motion presets in the Focus timeline
Apply a complete keyframe package to one selected Focus timeline clip, then review its timing and switch to Studio only when the generated keyframes need property-level refinement.
Add transitions between Focus timeline clips
Add Crossfade or Dip-to-Black between adjacent clips in the same Focus lane, set the transition duration, and verify that clip boundaries provide the intended visual overlap.
Use Select and Razor in the Studio timeline
Choose the correct Studio timeline tool before editing: Select moves and edits layers or keyframes, while Razor splits a layer or track at the chosen time.
The Focus (simple) timeline lanes
In Focus mode the timeline is a beginner non-linear editor: a lane view (Video / Overlay / Text / FX / Voice / Music / Captions) over your layers, where you drag clips to move and trim and apply Motio
Layer targets & stagger
A timeline layer doesn’t have to animate just itself. Each layer can target its children, all descendants, or text units (characters / words / lines), with a stagger so the targets animate one after a
Media controls: speed, volume & freeze-frame
Video and audio layers in the Studio timeline have media-specific controls: change playback speed (with or without pitch shift), set the volume, mute, and freeze the last frame by extending the clip p