Peter Watson

Good news Igor! Bring on version 9!

Yes, effectively each layer would have a keyframe on the Timeline. By clicking on the "Show Layers On Timeline" button you would go to an expanded Timeline view with each layer having a "sub-timeline" below the original Timeline slide position. As I understand it, in the above example you only see the original image on the Timeline and not any layers applied in the Objects and Animation screen. So if each layer had a keyframe and sub-timeline, you could graphically see (and manipulate) when a mask comes in, when another slide or video layer begins or ends, etc.

This is what I mean. To be able to switch to a Timeline view for anything like this where you could adjust the Timeline position of any layer or the order of layers.

It would be useful to have an After Effects-like panel showing the layers in a slideshow, that could be turned on or off as required. As in AE, each layer could show it's timeline position.