Timelines
What plays in a scene, and one path through the whole story.
The scene's timeline
The timeline is what plays. It sits in the bar at the bottom of a scene's canvas. Open it in full with Open the timeline.
- Drag a video onto the timeline to put it in the scene. Right-click a node and choose Put on the timeline to do the same.
- Trim a clip's in and out points. An image holds for as long as you set.
- Add overlay and audio tracks above the video, for titles, dialogue, sound and music.
- Press Space to play the scene.
A scene with nothing on its timeline shows its heading for about as long as its script takes to read, so you can time a sequence before any video exists.
The voting window of an interaction is set on the timeline of the last scene before it.
The master timeline
The master timeline is one path through the whole story: each sequence as one clip, interactions as markers, with a soundtrack on top. Open it from the board with Open the master timeline.
It follows the outcomes you picked, otherwise the first outcome of each interaction. Right-click a sequence to put it on the master timeline or take it off.