More user friendly Column area.
It would be good to have a more user friendly dashboard for creating projects - drag and dropping of layers and columns especially. Currently you have to go into 'edit board' to do this and it feels a bit clunky.
My thoughts are that the dashboard should be setup with two modes - editor & playback. I know Millumin has the edit board button but maybe this should possibly be the default mode to display - especially on new projects.
In this mode you should still be able to still do basic playback but at the same time drag and drop layers and compositions around the columns. There should be right click menus for any appropriate settings (such as loop setting, cut, copy, delete).
Once everything is set a user could set Playback mode which would allow only clicking on thumbnails and running through the dashboard as they currently do.
Which mode the project should be in is saved with the project. Then people can also share the project for playback and know it won't be accidentally changed.
I guess my point is you spend more time editing in Millumin than playback and anything to improve the way we spend setting up shows and projects the better for us all.
-
Philip Hamilton commented
See "Copy and paste, select and drag, a column or group of columns"
-
Simon commented
Also to elaborate on the 'loop setting' it should really be consider the columns playback state.
They would probably be settings to - Next (Column), Loop, PingPong and Hold/Stop. Depending on which was set would define how the column reacts at the end of its timeline.