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+## 🚫 Explicitly deferred — multi-track timeline
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+TalkEdit deliberately avoids becoming a general-purpose NLE. Multi-track compositing (z-order, per-track opacity, keyframe animation, nested sequences) would take months and you'd still lose to DaVinci Resolve (free), CapCut (free), and OpenShot (free).
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+**TalkEdit's advantage is that it isn't a timeline editor** — the text-is-the-timeline model makes spoken-word editing drastically faster than dragging razor cuts around.
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+What exists and what's planned:
+- One audio track (main) + optional background music track (done)
+- Clip concatenation (append clips end-to-end) (done)
+- Potential future: **B-roll overlay** — a single up/down overlay track for inserting images or cutaway clips at specific timestamps. Useful for talking-head content (screenshots, charts, reaction clips) without a full multi-track system. The zone model already supports this — you add an overlay zone type with a file reference.
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+Everything beyond that (picture-in-picture, multi-layer compositing, per-layer keyframing) should stay deferred. If the market demands it later, it's easier to add than to remove complexity.
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 ## ✅ Already Implemented
 
 - [#025] Word-level transcript editing (select, drag, shift-click, delete)