Let the user see the other tracks below the rawr track in Glaxnimate without any additional steps

Suggestion
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When we add an animation, we can adds a rawr object directly to the timeline. Shotcut creates a new track above the existing track, places the rawr object and then opens Glaxnimate to edit it.

This is excellent!

However, Glaxnimate does not show the track that lies below the rawr object, even if the background in Glaxnimate is transparent.

To see the lower track in Glaxnimate, we have to

  1. save the project in Glaxnimate,
  2. switch to Shotcut,
  3. click on the rawr object,
  4. Click on the Edit button in the Properties panel.
  5. Switch back to Glaxnimate.

This method is not intuitive: The user has to remember these steps.

Desired:
Let Shotcut/Glaxnimate handle these steps in the background.
The user should directly see the tracks in Glaxnimate without going through these steps.

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Hi @Raindrops

I agree that it wouldn’t be a bad thing to have the Shotcut background already imported in Glaxnimate.

But I took the habit of doing this when adding an Animation (Glaxnimate) to a project:

  • Click the Add to Timeline button.
  • As soon as the big Glaxnimate logo appears on screen, click on the RAWR clip in the Timeline.
  • When Glaxnimate is done launching, click the Edit button in Properties
  • Switch to Glaxnimate.

That saves a couple of clicks.

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Yes, but again clicking on the RAWR clip and Edit button has to be done with muscle memory, as there is no logical reason for doing so. That was my point.

If the user is relieved of such steps, his user experience will be improved drastically.

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The requested behavior is actually intended, and this is like a known soft bug I had not got around to fixing yet. accepted this.

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This was changed for Shotcut 25.03 so that when you choose Open Other > Animation > Add to Timeline it no longer automatically launches Glaxnimate. That requires you to simply do step 4 in your report. Maybe you want to move the animation clip beforehand if you did not first move the playhead to the proper position–necessary to get the desired video background anyways. IMHO this behavior is fine and feels normal (for the beginner or very occasional user launching another application can be jarring). Shotcut raises the Properties panel for you to make Edit convenient. Try it.