Multiple Timelines in Photoshop ArtBoard?

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February 4, 2025
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I'm working with a project in Photoshop ArtBoard which contains several Artboards. I have several separate animations in the project each located in a separate ArtBoard. I want to activate each animation separatekyI've successfully loaded the animations. However, what has become apparent is that all of the animations in the project share the same timeline. So, you play one animation, and all animations need to play.

My question is - is it possible to have multimple timelines in an ArtBoard project so each separte animation on each separate ArtBoard has its own timeline? If that is possible, how is it done?

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pacificmAuthor

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After much consideration I've decided that ArtBoard is not an appropriate software for the storyboard project with separate timelines specification. ArtBoards just doesn't support that. I've decided to use a rather simple software solution that supports separate timelines - Apple Keynote. Since I'm working with Apple, I went with Keynote. I can import virtually anything into Keynote and play back each slide. Nothing will be created in Keynote. It will just act as a container for anything in a particular scene. I also realized that aside from the actual storyboard I needed a related document - an Asset Manager. The purpose of this document is to contain all of the related files and their location for any particular scene. Here again, Keynote is serving this need. I needed a document where I could locate all of the assets for each scene and their location on my system. Thanks to all who helped in my exploring this question. The best to you all!

Chuck Uebele

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I'm not an expert in video, but artboards were designed to do graphic layouts, not really for video. So I'm not surprised that you're having this problem. I would think Premier Pro or After Effects would bea better choice.

Trevor.Dennis

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I don't know 100% for sure, but I very much doubt it. Are these video or frame animations? Frame animations are a nightmare if you are moving multiple objects. It's much easier with video. How complex are the animations? Animate might be a better bet, but maybe even Adobe Express depending on the content. I have little experience with those apps though.

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pacificmAuthor

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These are .mov videos. I'm attempting to use ArtBoard for creating storyboards that would support video, animation, and audio and not just stills. The limitation I'm running into though is having to use a single timeline across a whole project with multiple ArtBoards. When you're using video, animation, or audio in a project you want to be able to have a separate timeline for each page or scene.

With Photoshop ArtBoard being such a robust product you would think there would be way to have separate timelines to accomodate each media playback, rather than having to share one timeline for an entire project of separate scenes, video, animation, audio. You would think there would be a workaround for such a need and that Adobe would have addressed ths by now. You would think there would be a way to even use the single timeline with different keyframes for different locations on the timeline for each media playback. But that does not seem to be available.

Is there another Adobe product that would meet this need better? Any suggestions? Thanks!

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

What is your intended end product? Do you intend outputting four separate videos? Or a single video with four windows playing simultaneously? Is it for a specialist web site where the user can select each video?

Right now, I am struggling to understand why you need to edit the videos on the same screen? You could share graphics between them no problem.

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