# Transition Timeline (UX Suggestion)

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252 "2025-08-19T15:29:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![\_MaX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/_max/32/101_2.png) [@\_MaX](https://qa.fmod.com/u/_MaX)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252/1 "2025-08-19T15:29:52Z")

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Hi guys!

I encountered an issue prior to a milestone that drove me crazy: I had a music that was “dropping” (audio stopping with sometimes some layer playing the release or not) without any particular reason.

I tried to find the origin of the problem in deeper reasons than it was sadly, and couldn’t figure it out.

When I found the origin I was kinda mad at myself: it was an unwanted transition timeline, which was probably created by mistake over several dozens of measures.

I’m gonna take an extreme example, but… when you have setups like this :

 ![fmod-transitions-01](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/9/91470eed96cfd5140d08848186ec8a427a5aaec8.png)

… pin pointing a potential issue starts to be problematic.

So the idea would be to improve the transitions implementation like this:

- When double clicking on a transition, if the transition timeline does not exists beforehand, open a prompt “would you like to create a transition timeline yes/no” ( enter=yes, esc=no + mouse)
- When double clicking on a transition, if the transition timeline exists, open or close it (as usual)
- When right clicking \> Add transition timeline, keep current behavior to allow quick creations fast and easily
- Finding a marker / color to replace the tiny dot, which is somewhat visible but when you are deep down in the rabbit hole in a project, sometimes it’s not obvious enough.

Cheers!

Olivier

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252/2 "2025-08-20T00:51:15Z")

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A confirmation dialog when creating a new transition timeline by double-clicking, and a harder-to-overlook indication that a transition timeline is present? I can see how those would be useful. I’ll add your suggestions to our feature and improvement tracker.

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**Author:** ![\_MaX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/_max/32/101_2.png) [@\_MaX](https://qa.fmod.com/u/_MaX)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252/3 "2025-08-21T10:05:36Z")

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Thank you @joseph !

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**Author:** ![RoryWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/87869e/32.png) [@RoryWalker](https://qa.fmod.com/u/RoryWalker)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252/4 "2026-06-10T12:02:01Z")

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I concur. My students often double click transitions or loops by accident and don’t realise what they have just done, then complain that there is a long dropout of silence that they can’t explain.

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**Author:** ![joseph](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/joseph/32/264_2.png) [@joseph](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joseph)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/transition-timeline-ux-suggestion/23252/5 "2026-06-11T00:50:11Z")

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> [@RoryWalker](#):
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> I concur.

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve added you to the list of people who’ve requested these features.