Highlight Covers

How this one is built

Highlight Covers is built from 3 shapes, 3 images and 3 text layers, using a shadow 40 pixels deep. Its colours are deep blue, white and near-black. Type is set in Inter.

The gear cover scales up at 0.2s, the gear mark and best of cover scale up at 0.4s, the gear label rises into place at 0.5s, the best of mark and Q&A cover scale up at 0.5s, and 3 further beats follow before the end. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.

It sits through the middle of the frame of a vertical composition, spanning about 73% of the width at 790×326 pixels.

What to do with it

• Make it yoursChange the words, the colours and the timing without breaking the animation that was built for the shape.
• Export it with transparencyWhich format your editor actually reads, and why a black rectangle behind your graphic means the wrong one was chosen.
• Place it where it readsA handle is only useful if it stays legible on a phone, which is where most of it is watched.
• What exporting costsOpening this template, changing it and watching it back are free. Getting the finished file out is $5 once for this project, or a plan if you make them often.