prop.reset cleared every keyframe before setting the default value. As in
After Effects (and as effect.reset already does for effect parameters), an
animated property now keeps its keyframes and gets the default as a key at
the current time; a static property just takes the default. The expression
is still removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Validate saved stroke frames against the current layer limits before clamping a span edit. Keep project and undo state intact when trimming has left strokes outside the layer.
Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <[email protected]>
Ctrl/Cmd+Alt dragging a selected layer bar or a selected key now runs a
Quick Offset (layer.quickOffset / keys.quickOffset with fromStart, one
undo step). The mode is chosen when the drag starts and needs at least
two unlocked layers; the last selected layer moves by whole frames with
the pointer. A readout by the pointer shows the Total Offset and the
offset Per Layer, translated.
A plain drag still moves the selection together, Alt alone still scales
a key group in time (it now leaves Ctrl/Cmd+Alt to Quick Offset), and
Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+click still toggles Hold. The key drag's readout is drawn
by a shared drag_tip. Keys also register timeline.keyAt.<uid>.<ticks>,
exact where keys on subframes can share a frame.
Tests (ui_quick_offset): staggering layer bars in selection order and
keys per layer, one undo each; plain drags and Alt scaling unchanged; the
readout while dragging.
After Effects 25.4's Quick Offset staggers selected layers, or each
layer's selected keyframes, in the order they were selected: the first
stays, the last moves by the drag and the ones between by equal steps,
landing on subframes.
layer.quickOffset {delta, layers?} moves each layer's start, in and out
point by total * i / (n - 1), worked out once in ticks with integer
arithmetic, so 1 frame over 4 layers gives 0, 1/3, 2/3 and 1 frame
exactly. keys.quickOffset {delta} does the same per layer for the
selected keys, the layers in the order their first key was selected;
every selected key of a layer, across its properties, moves by that
layer's comp-time offset through its start and stretch (reversed too),
keeping values, interpolation, easing and labels. Locked layers are
skipped and at least two layers are needed. With merge and fromStart,
delta is the whole drag and each step starts again from before it, so
the drag is one undo step and a key passed over survives. A delta or a
destination out of the range of times is an error, not a clamped move.
Docs: agents.md; architecture.md notes Quick Offset as the exception to
times snapping to frames.
Problem: the built-in animation preset library had no Backgrounds category
(gap 7: 31 presets against After Effects' 621).
Fix: 23 original Backgrounds presets in crates/engine/presets/backgrounds.json,
built from our own generator, noise, colour and stylize effects: Soft Gradient
Drift, Aurora Veil, Slow Fog, Cloud Bank, Dark Smoke, Ember Haze, Magma Flow,
Ice Flow, Pastel Plasma, Cell Drift, Crystal Facets, Hex Mosaic, Mirrored Silk,
Water Caustics, Blueprint Grid, Checker Scroll, Scrolling Stripes, Pulse Rings,
Bokeh Drift, Spotlight Floor, Dawn Sky, Sweeping Light, Grainy Wash.
The preset format gains `expr` (an expression per property, so backgrounds keep
moving for the whole layer) and point parameters written as fractions of the
layer size. Effects & Presets lists them under * Animation Presets > Backgrounds.
Tests: catalogue uniqueness and categories, apply/undo/redo of every preset
(engine), render of every preset with the expression engine: finite,
non-flat, deterministic, moving (host), panel listing and apply (ui-egui).
Sidecar, ATTRIBUTION.md, gaps.md row 7 and effects-parity.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
Guides can store a percent of the comp so they follow comp-size changes
(View > Add Percentage Guide, Convert Guides to Percentage / Pixels); an
effect instance has an optional colour label (effect.setLabel, Effect Controls
header bar and Label menu). Both are serde-defaulted, so old projects load.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
File > Import > EffectCraft Project (and .ecproj/.ecprojx given to File > Import)
merges the project into a folder named after the file, with every id shifted past
the open project's, in one undo step. Relative footage resolves next to the file;
the result lists comps, root comps, primaryComp and missing media.
offset_ids now shifts tracker Motion Targets and saturates instead of overflowing;
fix_next_id saturates too, so a damaged file can't overflow on open or import.
Menu entry translated in all ten menu catalogues.
Rebased onto current upstream main for the split of #858 (test module list in
engine lib.rs; es/pt-br/ru/fr/de/cs menu translations).
(cherry picked from commit 19c653fccc95133fb35e978a7f7f20a18c0e8c89)
(cherry picked from commit 4e751ad2)
(cherry picked from commit ceed706cc3b5f3755769738a1ddb3d965a94ab6b)
(cherry picked from commit 40b232d02069925e9c72677f52ee6f356495a736)
(cherry picked from commit a2d89bda11b7217c83c98ab681b8f9b4a334786d)
(cherry picked from commit 63951595222207b6bfd0ecde72f991628c6f12d9)
(cherry picked from commit 20c2bb0dcb)
First in the menu, as in After Effects, and for the right-clicked comp rather than the one in the viewer: the dialog keeps the comp it edits and OK passes it to comp.settings. comp.settings with only {"comp": id} opens the dialog on that comp.
Both were a single command taking the mode as a parameter, with no menu entry,
so nothing could carry a default key. Each mode is now its own command:
view.fastPreviews.off / adaptive / draft / fastDraft / wireframe (Cmd+Alt+1-5)
and view.channel.red / green / blue / alpha (Alt+1-4), redColorized /
greenColorized / blueColorized (Alt+Shift+1-3) and rgbStraight (Alt+Shift+4).
A channel's key again returns to RGB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The desktop app imported any argument it didn't know as a file (writing it to Recent Footage)
and dropped a missing or non-numeric --control value, starting without a control server.
parse_args now returns an error for an unknown option, a --control value that isn't a port from
1 to 65535, or a bad EFFECTCRAFT_CONTROL_PORT (checked only when --control isn't given); main
prints it and exits with status 1 before anything starts. --control=<port> works, and -- ends
the options so a file named -x can still be opened.
Tests: parse_args unit tests, and tests/args.rs runs the binary with its own settings folder
and checks the exit, the message and that nothing was written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Viewer: each composition keeps its Resolution in the project, as in After Effects (#417)
# Conflicts:
# crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
# crates/ui-egui/src/menus.rs
# crates/ui-egui/src/panels/viewer_tools.rs
- GPU Pixel Motion Blur (#695) declined without a host; it now averages the shutter's
frames like the CPU effect (tests_fx_time::without_a_host).
- add_item_keeps_footage_longer_than_the_comp_at_full_length (#798) built footage with
the default kind (Still), which adds at comp length; it is a movie.
- docs/effects.md regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Brandon Thomas