diff --git a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapAnimatesProperty.ts b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapAnimatesProperty.ts
index 9485c410c0..54e09dae70 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapAnimatesProperty.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapAnimatesProperty.ts
@@ -1,32 +1,3 @@
-// GSAP's CSSPlugin takes ownership of the element's entire transform stack
-// when it tweens ANY of these — it bakes the CSS `translate` longhand into
-// style.transform at init and writes `translate: none` every tick. Position
-// reapply/strip logic must therefore stand down for all of them, not just x/y.
-const GSAP_TRANSFORM_PROPS = [
-  "x",
-  "y",
-  "xPercent",
-  "yPercent",
-  "scale",
-  "scaleX",
-  "scaleY",
-  "rotation",
-  "rotate",
-  "rotationX",
-  "rotationY",
-  "skewX",
-  "skewY",
-  "transform",
-];
-
-/**
- * True when GSAP animates any transform-affecting property on the element,
- * meaning GSAP owns `style.transform` and has neutralized CSS `translate`.
- */
-export function gsapAnimatesTransform(el: HTMLElement): boolean {
-  return gsapAnimatesProperty(el, ...GSAP_TRANSFORM_PROPS);
-}
-
 /**
  * Checks whether GSAP actively animates one or more CSS/GSAP properties on
  * the given element by inspecting all registered `__timelines`.
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapLivePreview.test.ts b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapLivePreview.test.ts
index 60e6485d98..fef0fe4587 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapLivePreview.test.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/gsapLivePreview.test.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 // @vitest-environment happy-dom
-import { expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { afterEach, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { createGsapLivePreview } from "./gsapLivePreview";
 import type { DomEditSelection } from "./domEditingTypes";
 import type { GsapAnimation } from "@hyperframes/parsers/gsap-parser";
 import { readGsapRuntimeValuesForPanel } from "./propertyPanelHelpers";
 
+afterEach(() => {
+  delete (window as { gsap?: unknown }).gsap;
+  delete (window as { __timelines?: unknown }).__timelines;
+});
+
 it("previews on the selected element, not an earlier same-id copy in a sub-composition", () => {
   document.body.innerHTML =
     '<div data-composition-id="strip"><div id="card" data-hf-id="hf-inner"></div></div>' +
@@ -61,3 +66,43 @@ it("the panel reads GSAP values off the node the live preview moves", () => {
   });
   expect(getProperty.mock.calls[0]?.[0]).toBe(root);
 });
+
+it.each([
+  ["fades it", { opacity: 0 }, ["opacity"]],
+  ["fades it about its corner", { opacity: 0, transformOrigin: "0 0" }, ["opacity"]],
+  [
+    "moves it",
+    { x: 100 },
+    [
+      "x",
+      "y",
+      "rotation",
+      "rotationX",
+      "rotationY",
+      "rotationZ",
+      "z",
+      "scale",
+      "transformPerspective",
+      "opacity",
+    ],
+  ],
+])(
+  "the panel reads GSAP's transform only off an element GSAP positions: a tween that %s",
+  (_, vars, read) => {
+    document.body.innerHTML = '<div id="card"></div>';
+    const card = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>("#card");
+    const tween = { targets: () => [card], vars, duration: () => 1 };
+    const getProperty = vi.fn(() => 1);
+    const contentWindow = Object.assign(window, {
+      gsap: { getProperty },
+      __timelines: { main: { getChildren: () => [tween] } },
+    });
+    const selection = { id: "card", sourceFile: "index.html", element: card } as DomEditSelection;
+    const animations = [{ properties: vars }] as unknown as GsapAnimation[];
+    readGsapRuntimeValuesForPanel("anim", animations, selection, {
+      current: { contentWindow, contentDocument: document } as unknown as HTMLIFrameElement,
+    });
+    const props = getProperty.mock.calls.map((call) => (call as unknown[])[1]);
+    expect(props).toEqual(read);
+  },
+);
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/propertyPanelHelpers.ts b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/propertyPanelHelpers.ts
index 8dcbd8014d..c97ee0b3bd 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/components/editor/propertyPanelHelpers.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/components/editor/propertyPanelHelpers.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   playbackStartAttributeForElement,
   readPlaybackStartAttributes,
 } from "../../player/lib/timelineElementHelpers";
+import { GSAP_TRANSFORM_KEYS, gsapWritesPosition } from "../../hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes";
 
 export type {
   BackgroundRemovalProgress,
@@ -496,8 +497,10 @@ export function readGsapRuntimeValuesForPanel(
     const el = findPreviewNode(iframe.contentDocument, element);
     if (!el) return null;
     const propKeys = collectPanelPropKeys(gsapAnimations);
+    const readsTransform = gsapWritesPosition(el);
     const result: Record<string, number> = {};
     for (const prop of propKeys) {
+      if (!readsTransform && GSAP_TRANSFORM_KEYS.has(prop)) continue;
       const v = Number(gsap.getProperty(el, prop));
       if (Number.isFinite(v)) result[prop] = roundToCenti(v);
     }
diff --git a/packages/studio/src/hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes.ts b/packages/studio/src/hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes.ts
index 09b1a2c089..466f078afd 100644
--- a/packages/studio/src/hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes.ts
+++ b/packages/studio/src/hooks/gsapRuntimeKeyframes.ts
@@ -419,6 +419,12 @@ export const POSITION_CHANNELS: string[] = [
 ];
 const MOVE_CHANNELS = [...POSITION_CHANNELS, "motionPath"];
 
+export const GSAP_TRANSFORM_KEYS = new Set(
+  "x,y,z,scale,scaleX,scaleY,xPercent,yPercent,rotation,rotationX,rotationY,skewX,skewY,transformOrigin,svgOrigin,force3D,smoothOrigin,transformPerspective,translateX,translateY,translateZ,rotate,rotationZ,rotateZ,rotateX,rotateY".split(
+    ",",
+  ),
+);
+
 /** Whether a live timeline tween or hold writes any of `channels` on `el`. Sync, no fetch. */
 function gsapWritesChannels(el: Element, channels: string[]): boolean {
   const win = el.ownerDocument.defaultView as { __timelines?: Record<string, RuntimeTimeline> };