History & Timelapse
Scrub back through every stroke. Record a session and bake it to video.
Every Image node remembers how it was painted. Scrub back through strokes and layer changes, or turn the whole session into a timelapse video.
History#
Select an Image node and press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + T, or click the gear badge on its title. A small transport appears.
- Scrubber: drag to any moment. The canvas updates live.
- Play / Pause: replay one change at a time.
- Skip to start / end: blank canvas, or the latest state.
Let go of the scrubber anywhere and painting picks up from there. Later history is replaced from that point, like undo in any painting app.
How far back it reaches is Canvas Undo Steps in Settings > Performance. Strokes and layer changes live here. Board edits (wires, sliders, node moves) live in the normal undo.
Record a timelapse#
Every canvas records its whole session by default, however long, and the recording saves with the document. The switch is Record timelapse in the transport's settings (the dots), next to a size readout and Purge, which throws the recording away.
Turn on Record brush motion there too to capture strokes as they were drawn, not just their result.
Bake it to video#
Click Timelapse in the transport. Magerie adds a Timelapse node wired to your canvas and renders the recording.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Fit duration / As drawn | The pill above the slider. Fit squeezes the session into Duration. As drawn replays in real time. |
| Trim pauses | As drawn only. Long thinking breaks shrink to this many seconds. |
Press Render after changing anything. The result plays in the node. In Magerie, wire it into a Video Exporter to save an MP4, or into a Video Timeline to cut it with other clips.