The editor
12 presets, in 3 categories
A preset writes real keyframes starting at the playhead, and you can edit everything it writes as soon as it lands.
| Preset | Category | What it does | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fade up | Entrance | The default good entrance. Rises a short distance while it appears. | 520ms |
| Fade in | Entrance | Opacity only. The safe choice when the layout must not move. | 360ms |
| Pop in | Entrance | Springs up to full size with a little overshoot. Good for badges and chips. | 620ms |
| Drop in | Entrance | Falls into place on a loose spring. Reads as weight. | 900ms |
| Slide in left | Entrance | Enters from the left on a spring, fading as it arrives. | 700ms |
| Slide in right | Entrance | Enters from the right on a spring, fading as it arrives. | 700ms |
| Rise & settle | Entrance | Overshoots its resting place, then eases back — follow-through, by hand. | 660ms |
| Attention shake | Emphasis | Four quick lateral beats that decay. Use for errors, sparingly. | 400ms |
| Pulse | Emphasis | One breath of scale. Draws the eye without moving the layout. | 500ms |
| Nudge | Emphasis | A single small tilt and back. Playful, cheap, hard to overdo. | 560ms |
| Fade out | Exit | Leaves quietly. Exits should be faster than entrances. | 280ms |
| Sink out | Exit | Shrinks slightly as it fades — reads as receding rather than vanishing. | 320ms |
Applied to several selected elements at once, a preset staggers them automatically. The offset comes from the motion system’s stagger scale, so there’s no number to pick.
- Follow-through
- Beside the stagger step, follow-through turns the selection into a chain: the first element leads, and down the layers list each spring is a little bouncier and a little slower than the one before. ζ falls by 0.08 and stiffness by 8% per link, never below ζ 0.35, so the last one swings furthest. A loosened final spring has its closing keyframe moved out to where it lands, so later elements finish later, and that overlap is intended. On animation that already exists, ⌘K “Add follow-through to selection” does the same.
- Where follow-through stops
- It loosens springs only. A fade on an easing curve can’t overshoot, so presets without a spring (Fade in, Rise & settle) are left as they are, and the stage says so. Each follower is loosened from the lead’s spring, so applying it twice changes nothing. It exports as what it is, every element with its own spring and start instead of one stagger, and the parity gate measures a chain in all three dialects.