Animation

An animation is everything an item does over its time on a video: how it arrives, what it does while it is on screen, where it travels and how it leaves. Select the item, open its Animate menu and pick a card, and its Recipe holds the settings listed below — each kind of arrival, motion or departure a choice inside its section, with the settings that choice uses.

Arrive and Leave hold the same settings, one for each end of the item's time. A motion's settings — what it moves, how it is spread across the item's letters, words or copies, and what drives it — stand under Animations, as do the settings of a stepped arrival or departure. The item's own pivot, Pivot X and Pivot Y, stands under Animations too, listed with every item's own settings. A saved animation keeps the item's arrival, motions, path and departure; a clip's Speed and what a mark Follows stay with that item. Hover a row of the Recipe, or hold a finger still on it, and it shows what that setting does — the sentence this page lists for it — with Learn more leading to its section here; the value does not change.

Where you can use an animation

• Video — Video · Image · 3D · Text · Emoji · Shape · Freeform · Table · Mask · Blur · Captions · Groups
• 3D

What you can do with an animation you made

You can keep an animation you have tuned, share it, or put it on another item:

Star · Post · Copy

Arrive · Leave

• Duration — How long the item takes to arrive or leave.
• Delay — How long after the item starts it arrives, or before it ends it leaves.
• Angle — Which way the item travels as it arrives or leaves.
• Ease — How the arrival or the exit moves across its length: evenly, easing in or out, overshooting, springing or bouncing.
  • Linear · In · Out · In/Out · Overshoot · Spring · Ball · Hold
• Steps — How many times a second a scrambling letter changes.
• Amount — How large the item starts as it arrives, against its own size.
• Amount — How much of the item’s line is already drawn as it starts.
• Amount — How far the item spins as it arrives, in degrees.
• Amount — How far the item is turned as it arrives, in degrees.
• Amount — How far the item travels as it arrives, a share of the frame.
• Fill from — Where in the drawing the shape’s fill starts to come up.

Dissolve

• Block size — How large the blocks the dissolve tears the picture into are.
• Jitter — How far the dissolve’s blocks jump.
• Slices — How much of the picture the dissolve’s tear slices.
• Colour split — How far the dissolve pulls the picture’s colours apart.

Morph

• Zoom — How far the morph zooms as one picture becomes the other.
• Melt — How far the morph melts one picture into the other.

Black

• Edge softness — How soft the moving edge between the two pictures is.

Whip

• Motion blur — How much the whip blurs the pictures as they fly past.

Cube

• Perspective — How far away the eye stands as the pictures turn: nearer turns more strongly.

Flip

• Perspective — How far away the eye stands as the pictures turn: nearer turns more strongly.

Page

• Curl radius — How tightly the page curls as it turns.

Warp

• Ripple — How far the ripple bends the picture.
• Ripples — How many ripple rings cross the picture.
• Phase — How far the ripple’s rings travel in as it settles.

Shatter

• Pieces — How many pieces the glass breaks into.
• Flight — How far the broken pieces fly.

Clock

• Edge softness — How soft the moving edge between the two pictures is.
• Centre X — Where across the frame the wipe turns about or spreads from.
• Centre Y — Where down the frame the wipe turns about or spreads from.

Radial

• Edge softness — How soft the moving edge between the two pictures is.
• Centre X — Where across the frame the wipe turns about or spreads from.
• Centre Y — Where down the frame the wipe turns about or spreads from.

Zoom

• Zoom-blur — How much the pictures blur as they zoom past each other.
• Leave scale — How large the leaving picture is as it goes.
• Arrive scale — How large the arriving picture is as it comes in.

Film Burn

• Burn softness — How soft the moving edge between the two pictures is.
• Scale — How coarse the pattern the wipe spreads along is.

Ink Bleed

• Bleed softness — How soft the moving edge between the two pictures is.
• Scale — How coarse the pattern the wipe spreads along is.

Depth

• Edge softness — How soft the moving edge between the two pictures is.

Tiles

• Tiles — How many tiles the picture breaks into.
• Spacing — How far apart the cells start turning: all at once, or one after another.
• Jitter — How far each cell’s start strays from its place in the sweep.
• Seed — Which order the tiles break up in.

Blinds

• Slats — How many slats the blinds turn in.
• Spacing — How far apart the cells start turning: all at once, or one after another.
• Jitter — How far each cell’s start strays from its place in the sweep.

Old TV

• Static — How much snow the screen shows as it switches off.

Smear

• Warp — How far the picture is pushed out of shape as it changes.

Animations

• Intensity — How far every part of the motion goes.
• Speed — How fast every part of the motion runs.
• Phase — Where in its cycle the motion starts.
• Reverse — Runs the motion backwards.
• Angle — Which way the motion moves on the frame, turned from its own way.
• Axis — Which axis a turn runs about.
  • Rotation · Turn Y · Turn X
• Seed — Which of its random patterns the jitter follows.
• Start zoom — How far in the move starts.
• Start X — Where across the frame the move starts.
• Start Y — Where down the frame the move starts.
• End zoom — How far in the move ends.
• End X — Where across the frame the move ends.
• End Y — Where down the frame the move ends.
• By — What inside the item the animation runs over: its lines, words, letters, strokes or copies.
  • Whole · Line · Word · Letter · Stroke · Copy
• Order — Which unit goes first.
  • First to last · Last to first · From the centre · From the edges · Left to right · Random
• Spacing — How far apart the units run: all at once, or one after another.
• Shape — How much of the animation each unit takes across their order.
• Seed — Which shuffle a random order or shape plays.
• Tint — The colour each unit wears while it is off its rest.
• Ramp — How softly a word’s animation comes up and goes as the word is said.
• Size — How large the last unit stands against the first.
• Curves — How each unit’s size changes across their order.
• Fade — How faded the last unit stands against the first.
• Curves — How each unit’s fade changes across their order.
• Turn — How far the last unit is turned against the first.
• Curves — How each unit’s turn changes across their order.
• Offset — How unevenly the units are placed.
• Turn — How unevenly the units are turned.
• Size — How unevenly the units are sized.
• Fade — How unevenly the units are faded.
• Seed — Which unevenness the units take.
• Amount — How far this part moves the item, a share of the frame.
• Amount — How far this part turns the item, in degrees.
• Amount — How much this part grows or shrinks the item.
• Amount — How much this part grows the item, a share of its own size.
• Amount — How far this part fades the item.
• Amount — How far this part runs the line’s dashes along it.
• Amount — How large each word grows as it pops.
• Entry — How long each word takes to come up to its size.
• Rate — How many times a second this part cycles.
• Fineness — How much finer, fainter detail the jitter carries.
• From rest — Starts the jitter from where the item stands.
• Pulse — Makes the jitter hit in bursts instead of drifting.
• Wind-up — How far the punch winds back before it hits.
• Amount — Where this part stands at a key of its curve, a share either way of its rest.
• Amount — How far this part has turned at a key of its curve.
• Amount — How big this part makes the item at a key of its curve, a factor of its own size.
• Amount — How see-through this part makes the item at a key of its curve.
• Read — Whether the setting follows the reading itself or how fast it changes.
  • Value · Speed
• Hold — How many times a second the reading steps instead of flowing.
• Rise — How long the reading takes to rise to a new value.
• Bounce — How much the reading overshoots and settles.
• Fall — How long the reading takes to fall back.
• Response — How the reading is reshaped before it moves the setting.
• Shape — The shape the wave takes over each cycle.
  • Sine · Triangle · Square · Saw · Hop · Punch
• Rate — How many times a second the wave or the noise cycles.
• Reads — What the setting reads of the tracked subject: its speed, where it stands, its size or how it faces.
  • Speed · Across · Down · Size · Tilt · Turn · Nod
• Reverse — Plays the motion’s keys from the end of its window back to the start.
• Stretch — Stretches the motion’s keys with the item when it is trimmed, instead of keeping their seconds.
• On every — Starts the motion over at every beat of the sound or every spoken word of the item, or never.
  • Off · Beat · Word
• Steps — How many poses a second the item’s motion holds, like hand-drawn animation.
  • On twos · On threes · On fours
• Morph starts — How far into the item’s life the shape starts to change.
• Morph ends — How far into the item’s life the shape has finished changing.

Path

• Line shape — How round or sharp the line bends through its points.
• Rotate to follow path — Turns the item to face the way it travels along the line.
• Text along the line — Lays the text’s letters along the line instead of moving the item along it.
• Along line — Where along the line the text stands.

Speed

• Freeze — How long a frozen frame holds before the clip plays on.

Follow

• Subject — Which tracked subject the mark is pinned to, measured from where it stands now.
• Size — Grows and shrinks the item with what it follows.
• Turn — Turns the item with what it follows.
• Position — Moves the item with the item it follows.
• Size — Grows and shrinks the item with the item it follows.
• Turn — Turns the item with the item it follows.
• Opacity — Fades the item with the item it follows.
• Item — Which clip, mark or caption the item follows.
• Lag — How far behind the item it follows the item runs, in seconds.

Emit

• Count — How many sprites of the item are in the air at once.
• Life — How long each sprite lives, in seconds.
• From — Where on the item a sprite is born: its middle, inside it, its edge or along its way.
  • Middle · Inside · Edge · Along its way
• Speed — How fast a sprite leaves, in shares of the frame’s width a second.
• Direction — Which way a sprite leaves, in degrees clockwise from straight up.
• Fan — How wide a fan the sprites leave in, in degrees.
• Gravity — How hard the sprites fall, or rise where it is below zero.
• Drag — How fast the air takes a sprite’s speed away.
• Size — How big a sprite is at its birth, as a share of the item.
• End size — How big a sprite is at its death, as a share of its birth.
• Fade — How much of its opacity a sprite has lost by its death.
• Spin — How fast a sprite turns, in degrees a second at the most, each its own way.
• Wind — A steady sideways wind the sprites drift in, in widths of the frame a second; left below zero.
• Turbulence — How far an air current bends each sprite’s path as it flies.
• Pull — How strongly the sprites gather toward the pull’s point by the end of their life.
• Pull across — Where across the frame the sprites gather toward, from the item’s centre.
• Pull down — Where down the frame the sprites gather toward, from the item’s centre.
• Curves — How a sprite’s pull grows over its life.
• Speed — How unevenly fast the sprites leave: each slower by up to this share.
• Size — How unevenly sized the sprites are: each smaller by up to this share.
• Turn — How unevenly the sprites face: each turned by up to this share of a whole turn.
• Curves — How a sprite’s size goes from its birth to its end size over its life.
• Curves — How a sprite fades over its life.
• Picture — The picture each sprite is: the item’s own, a library sprite, or a picture of yours.
• Burst — How close together a round of sprites is born: evenly through their life, or all at once.
• Seed — Which of its random patterns the sprites follow.
• In front of the item — Stands the sprites over the item, instead of the item over them.
• Hide the item — Shows only the sprites, the item itself hidden.

Physics

• Gravity — How hard the item falls, or rises where it is below zero.
• Bounce — How much of its speed the item keeps when it hits something.
• Friction — How much what the item slides on grips it.
• Drag — How fast the air takes the item’s speed away.
• Floor — Where the floor the item lands on stands, from the top of the frame.
• Sides of the frame stop it — Stops the item at the sides of the frame.
• Throw — How fast the item is thrown.
• Throw direction — Which way the item is thrown, in degrees clockwise from straight up.
• Spin — How fast the item is set turning, in degrees a second.
• Stiffness — How firmly the line holds the shape it was drawn in.
• Damping — How soon the line stops swinging.
• Droop — How hard the line hangs down, or floats up where it is below zero.
• Wind — How hard the wind pushes the line.
• Gust rate — How fast the wind gusts.
• Gust seed — Which gusts of wind the line meets.
• Held by its far end — Holds the line by its far end instead of its start.
  • Held by its far end

Automate

• Position — How far across the frame the item stands from its own place.
• Position — How far down the frame the item stands from its own place.
• Scale — How wide the item stands, a factor of its own width.
• Scale — How tall the item stands, a factor of its own height.
• Rotation — How far the item is turned on the frame, in degrees.
• Tilt X — How far the item leans left or right, as if turned away.
• Tilt Y — How far the item leans up or down, as if turned away.
• Opacity — How see-through the item is.
• Turn X — How far the item turns over, top toward or away from you, in degrees.
• Turn Y — How far the item turns around, side toward or away from you, in degrees.
• Skew X — How far the item slants sideways, in degrees.
• Skew Y — How far the item slants up or down, in degrees.
• Depth — How far the item comes toward you or goes away.
• Time — Which moment of its own time the item’s moving effects show.