With several layers selected, After Effects applies a property edit to the same property of
every selected layer; we changed only the layer whose row was edited (the Properties panel
showed only the first selected layer), so a stopwatch switched on one layer and later moves
of the others had nothing to keyframe (#355), and scaling or rotating a selection changed
one layer (#491).
- Engine: `prop.set`, `prop.toggleAnimation` and `prop.toggleKey` take `selected: true`:
the change also goes to the same property (by match path, `transform/scale`,
`effects/<effect>#n/<param>`) of every other selected, unlocked layer whose value has the
same kind, in one undo step (a scrub keeps folding into it through its `merge` key). With
`offset: true` (a scrub) each layer changes by the same amount from its own value; a typed
value sets them all. Position with Separate Dimensions is handled per layer.
- The Timeline, Properties and Effect Controls panels pass `selected` (and `offset` while a
value is dragged). The Properties panel heads "(N) Selected Objects" (zh-CN / zh-TW / ja /
uk rows).
- Viewer: a bounding-box handle drag scales every selected layer by the same ratio about its
own anchor point; the Rotation tool turns them all by the same angle (one undo step).
Tests: engine test (stopwatch, scrub offset, typed value, keyframe button, one undo step,
unselected layers untouched); kittests: the Properties panel with three layers selected
(header, stopwatch on all three undone in one step, a scrub moving all three by the same
amount) and a handle drag scaling two selected layers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QiAJeFttZp83Fh7YuzAR5f
The Graph Editor's bottom bar lays out 17 text buttons in one row
(about 1100 px) on a painter clipped to the graph area, so on a
normal-width Timeline the right-hand ones (keyframe interpolation and
easing) were cut off and unreachable. Buttons that would pass the bar's
right edge now go, in order, to a » menu at its end; picking one there
runs the same action on the next frame. Hidden buttons register as
timeline.graph.more.<id> while the menu is open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QiAJeFttZp83Fh7YuzAR5f
The Ease Presets panel (#254) is modelled on a third-party panel, so,
as with third-party tools in After Effects, it isn't core any more: it
is `extensions/scriptui-panels/Ease Presets.jsx`, a ScriptUI panel
bundled as an optional extension (Window ▸ Ease Presets.jsx), written
only against the public scripting API. Clicking a preset eases every
pair of neighbouring selected keyframes in one undo step (per
dimension, along the motion path for spatial properties, the keys'
other sides as they play); the fields edit the working curve, which the
panel draws; From Keys, Save, Rename and Delete as before. The twelve
built-in curves are unchanged.
Scripting API fixes it needed (After Effects parity):
- `app.settings` lasts between runs (`script_settings.json` in the
settings folder; `script.settings.get` / `script.settings.save`).
- Per-key methods (`setTemporalEaseAtKey`, `setInterpolationTypeAtKey`,
`removeKey`, the continuous / auto-Bezier / roving setters) no longer
change the user's key selection (they selected the key they edited).
- `keyInTemporalEase` / `keyOutTemporalEase` report linear and
auto-Bezier sides as they play, `keyIn/OutSpatialTangent` the
tangents the motion path plays.
- `selectedProperties` includes the properties of selected keyframes.
- `isInterpolationTypeValid` is false for Linear / Bezier on values that
only hold.
Removed from core: Window ▸ Ease Presets, the `keys.easePreset.*`
commands, `engine::ease_presets` and the `ease_presets.json` store,
`keyframe::EaseCurve` (nothing else used it) and the egui panel. User
presets saved by the v0.6.0 panel move into the panel's app.settings
section the first time settings load (the old file is left as is).
Docs: plugins.md (bundled extensions), parity.md, gaps.md G8, agents.md.
Test: app_settings_last_between_runs,
per_key_methods_keep_the_key_selection_and_report_eases_as_they_play,
spatial_tangents_are_reported_as_the_path_plays (each fails before),
the_ease_presets_panel_eases_every_selected_pair_in_one_undo_step,
a_typed_curve_scales_to_each_dimension_and_follows_motion_paths,
user_presets_save_rename_delete_and_persist,
presets_saved_by_the_old_core_panel_carry_over (script, through the
panel's controls), ease_presets_panel_eases_the_selected_keys_from_its_list
(UI: the panel docks and a click on a preset eases the keys).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Dragging a Bezier handle in the Graph Editor changed only that key's
ease. As in After Effects, the same side's handles of every selected
key now move with it, by as much as the pointer moved (time and value
or speed alike), in one undo step. Each handle keeps its offset from
where the drag began, so a handle stopped at a limit (100 % influence)
doesn't drag the others on.
Test: a_graph_handle_drag_moves_the_handles_of_every_selected_key
(ui_keyframes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A dockable panel (our own design) for the keys.easePreset commands. A
value graph shows the working curve with its two handles, which drag
to edit it; Apply eases the selected keyframes with it and From Keys
loads the curve between the first selected pair. Every preset is a
thumbnail drawn in code; a click loads it and applies it to the
selected keys. Save Current keeps the working curve under the name in
the field, and Rename and Delete act on the selected user preset.
Wide panels put the presets beside the graph; narrow ones below it,
the graph shrinking to leave a row of presets, scrolled with the wheel.
The panel state (working curve, selection, name) is serde in the UI
state, and every control registers an automation id (easePresets.*).
widgets::text_field is the search field without its magnifier.
Test: clicking_an_ease_preset_eases_the_selected_keys_and_handles_edit_the_curve
(ui_keyframes); every_panel_registers_automation_ids_for_its_widgets
covers the new panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Clicking (or marquee-selecting) keyframes in the Timeline selected only
the keys. Their property and layer stayed unselected, so the Graph
Editor, which shows the selected properties or else the animated
properties of the selected layers, came up empty until the property
was selected separately. As in After Effects, the Timeline's key
selection now selects the keys' properties and layers too (Shift adds
to them). keys.select takes this as `selectProperties`; the Graph
Editor's own key clicks leave what it shows alone.
Test: a_key_clicked_in_the_timeline_shows_in_the_graph_editor
(ui_keyframes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- J / K (Go to Previous / Next Keyframe) and Ctrl+Alt+A (Select All Keyframes) act on what the
Timeline shows, as in After Effects: the keys of its revealed properties, layer and comp
markers and the work area (they used every property of the selected or all layers, revealed
or not). The commands take `visible: [{layer, prop}]`, which the Timeline fills in; agents
calling them without it keep the previous behaviour.
- Graph Editor ▸ Auto-Select Graph Type (an "Auto" button, on by default as in After Effects):
the speed graph when every property shown is spatial (Position, Anchor Point…), else the
value graph; choosing Value or Speed turns it off.
- Docs: parity, agents.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Double-clicking a keyframe of a numeric property (or its context menu ▸ Edit Value…) opens
the property's value dialog for that key, as in After Effects (it only moved the current
time); other keys still move the current time to them.
- The keyframe context menu has Select Equal Keyframes, Select Previous Keyframes and Select
Following Keyframes (`keys.selectEqual` / `selectPrevious` / `selectFollowing`).
- Roving keys draw as small dots in the Timeline, like After Effects.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- `keys.transform {fromStart}`: each step of a merged drag gives the whole transform since the
drag started and applies to the keys as they were then. Keys squeezed onto one frame on the
way (Alt-drag scaling, the transform box) are no longer merged for good, and a slow
transform-box move, whose per-frame offsets rounded to nothing, now moves the keys.
- Dragging a key in the Graph Editor moves every selected key in time and value (it moved only
the grabbed one), by how far the pointer went from where the button went down (the key no
longer jumps under the pointer); Shift keeps the drag to the time or the value axis.
- Shift+click toggles a key in or out of the selection; Ctrl+click switches Linear ↔ Auto
Bezier and Ctrl+Alt+click toggles Hold, as in the Timeline.
- The transform box and the Timeline's Alt-drag scale send whole-gesture values.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- A drag (keys.move steps sharing a merge key) applies its total offset to the keys as they
were before it (`Session::key_move`, `prop::shift_keys`): dragging over another key of the
property no longer deletes it; only the drop position replaces a key, as in After Effects.
- Keys of time-stretched layers move with the pointer: offsets are applied in comp time and
snapped to comp frames (drags and Alt+Arrow nudges; they moved by the layer-time distance).
- Shift+click toggles a key in or out of the selection (`keys.select {toggle}`); Ctrl+click
switches Linear ↔ Auto Bezier and Ctrl+Alt+click toggles Hold.
- Keys of locked layers can't be selected (clicks, marquee, Select All Keyframes), so nothing
edits them.
- Toggle Hold off returns an eased key to Bezier (it always restored Linear).
- Shift-dragging a key snaps to everything the current time snaps to — other keys, layer in /
out points, layer and comp markers, the work area — and a tooltip shows the key's time and how
many frames it moved.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The windowing layer delivers Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V as clipboard events instead of key
presses, and the shortcut dispatcher only read key presses: in the app, copying and pasting
keyframes, layers and effects with the keyboard did nothing (tests passed because they inject
key presses). Clipboard events now map back to their keys with the modifiers held (so Ctrl+Alt+C
and the other variants work too), except while text is edited in the viewer, which handles them
itself. Ctrl+V sends no event while the system clipboard is empty, so copying now also puts a
line naming what was copied on it ("EffectCraft: 3 keyframes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Dragging a keyframe moved it a frame or two and then let go: the key's widget id includes its
time, so after the first move it was a new widget and egui ended the drag. The Timeline now
follows the whole gesture itself (`KeyDrag`: from where the button went down, by whole frames,
every selected key, one undo step), like After Effects. Holding Shift snaps the grabbed key to
the current time, the work area and composition markers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude