I quite like these ideas thanks for sharing...
To R Dymond,
It sounds like your scribes are rather sophisticated. You would probably benefit from creating each of your elements separately in VideoScribe, they combining them in a video editor such as Camtasia, Premiere, etc. These packages have multiple timelines which enable you to have multiple animating elements on the screen simultaneously.
VideoScribe is ultimately an animation package, which excels at creating whiteboard animations, but there are infinitely more effects and options available in the broader world of video production.
Personally, I would rather see Sparkol enhance VideoScribe with more unique animation features, than to reinvent video editing features available elsewhere.
R Dymond
These are important feature requests. Please review and add to you backlog? I have written them as User Stories.
Notes: To animate anything I currently I have to create multiple copies of the same element in different positions, and overwrite those copies with white copies to hide them. This is time consuming and makes my scribe much harder to edit.
A related problem is that editing the Scribe can only occur at the end of the timeline. If I need to change something on the screen at the midpoint of an animation. I cannot see the positions. The only way to see it is to pause the animation during playback, and then try to find the element on the timeline.
To create an animation with many elements I ended up doing screen captures of VS screens and combined elements, and creating large images in GIMP that I will overlay on part of the VS, without any drawing. The "animation" is done by cutting and pasting in GIMP. It is very slow, but much faster then doing it in Videoscribe. In fact i would not have done it in VS because of the complexity and how slow it is to do.
The following stories would have saved me days of editing time.
Erasing elements
As a VS Author I would like to be able to create simple animations by erasing elements or moving elements, so that I can save much time and effort.
Verify an element can be erased at some point in time
Verify I can set the point the element is erased
Verify I know where the erase will happen on the timeline
Editing the scribe by timeline position
As a VS Author I would like to view and edit the Scribe at a particular point in time on the timeline, not just the end, so that I do not have to guess at where things are hidden.
I can stop Scribe playback, and the screen shows the current state of the Scribe.
I can edit the Scribe at the point in time indicated on the timeline.
I can click on an element in the timeline and the Scribe updates to that point in time.
Moving Elements from point A to B in time
As a VS Author I would like to be able to create simple animations by moving elements from point A to point B, so that I can save much time and effort.
Verify an element can be moved from point A to point B
Verify I can set point A and B for an element
Verify I can set the A position in the timeline
Verify I can set the B position in the timeline
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