How SVGA DIY fits your production loop
The editor is intentionally small: it focuses on the steps SVGA gift teams repeat every week—ingest assets, adjust layers, prove the motion in preview, export. Below is exactly what ships in the workspace today.
Local-first by design
Sessions rely on browser storage for recovery prompts, but the heavy lifting—parsing protobuf, decoding images, writing a new archive—runs client-side. That keeps NDAs straightforward and avoids “upload this proprietary template to a random SaaS.”
Document-aware video import
Video import uses the active document's frame count and canvas size; either a blank document or an opened SVGA provides them. Pick MP4, MOV, WEBM, or M4V, scrub the trim handles, then generate a PNG sequence for the material list.
Materials with grouping and bulk actions
Imports land in a list with thumbnails, checkboxes, and drag handles. You can group related frames, move groups around, and when a layer is selected, replace it, insert neighbors, or batch-add every frame from a group.
Layer panel + explicit property drawer
Selecting a row only highlights the sprite; editing opens the drawer on purpose so you are not fighting popovers while rearranging dozens of layers. Group headers fold away whole sections of a busy template.
History you can lean on
Undo and redo traverse the document snapshot, so experimentation stays cheap. Combined with the session recovery dialog, you get a second chance if the tab disappears mid-edit.
Preview-first verification
The center column stays dedicated to playback and scrubbing. When the timeline panel is enabled you get per-layer tracks; when it is hidden you still control entry frames from the property drawer, so smaller screens stay usable.