Intent: Video export and scene transitions#

Author: J. Law Cordova (owner). Status: draft.

Problem#

In the owner's words:

Supporting video generation with equipment built into other formats and support scene transitions.

Today a scene's animation only exists as an animated SVG. There's no way to turn it into a video or another format to share, and no way to go from one scene to another.

Proposed outcome#

• Pixel Lab can generate a video of a scene's animation, with export to other formats built in.
• Scenes can transition from one to another.

Affected users and systems#

• The owner in the app: exporting, and the timeline.
• Agents and the CLI, which should be able to export too.
• Scenes in the document, if transitions are kept there.
• What Publish writes for the site, if transitions reach it.

Constraints#

• Pixel art stays crisp: nearest-neighbor, integer scaling.
• Every action is something the CLI, the app and agents can all do.
• No new dependencies without asking.

Open questions#

• "Equipment built into other formats" was dictated; the draft reads it as "export built in to other formats". Is that right?
• Which formats: video (MP4, MOV), GIF, a sprite sheet, PNG frames?
• Are transitions only for videos, or does the site get them too?
• What kinds of transition, and are they set per pair of scenes or as a sequence of scenes?
• What controls the export needs: length, frame rate, size, loops?