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Speedroller
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February 4, 2026
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Change timeline layout to be more like Animate, make it more user friendly.

  • February 4, 2026
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Every once in a while I open photoshop to play around with animating frame by frame in there instead of Animate. But the timeline is so confusing and frustrating that I can never get myself to continue. 

By reforming the timeline closer to Animate, which is calm and easy to use, you will loose less frame-by-frame animators. Because AE is not quite right for it.

What makes the Animate timeline so nice is that you can group it, it is organised and most of all; the singel keyframes makes it way clearer what you are working with. You can be way more precise. 

With the current layout it is very specific how to even start an animation, every singel drawing (frame) is visible in the layers tab, when you first finally manage to get the first video setup every frame is 5 seconds long. So you need to first shorten it, then copy paste very singel layer a 100 times (hopefully that is enough) and then place them behind each other. This workflow takes way too much time. 

Thank you for reading my rant, I care very much about both photoshop and animate. And if animate has to go (which I am still hoping is a cruel early April fools day joke) I am hoping for a better alternative because AE is not it! 
And as it stands now photoshop is not made for animation, so let’s turn it into one! :)