Keep Watching Cue
A nudge at the fifteen-second mark, where people leave.
A Short is watched on a phone held upright, usually without sound, and decided in the first three seconds. These are built vertical, with type heavy enough to carry the point silently and everything kept clear of the title and buttons the platform draws over its own bottom quarter.
- Resolution
- 1080 × 1920
- Duration
- 6s at 60fps
- Layers
- 2
- Animated
- 2
What you can edit
- Text:
- Cue
- Shapes:
- Pill
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Keep Watching Cue is built from 1 shape and 1 text layer, using a 18-pixel backdrop blur behind frosted glass rimmed in amber and a shadow 26 pixels deep. Its colours are near-black, amber and white. Type is set in Inter.
The cue and pill scale up at 0.1s. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.
It sits along the top of a vertical composition, spanning about 34% of the width at 371×96 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.
- Stay clear of the platform's own UIShorts draws the title, the channel and a column of buttons over its own frame. What is left is the column these are built for.
- 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.
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- Shorts Step CardStep two of five, stacked for a vertical frame.
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- Bold StatementOne sentence, full width, for a claim that carries the video.
- Shorts Price TagAn item and what it costs, placed clear of the buttons.
- Shorts Progress DotsHow far through, so nobody swipes off before the payoff.
- Shorts End CardFollow and what is next, above the platform's own furniture.
- Shorts Split AnswerA question up top, the answer landing under it a beat later.
- Shorts ComparisonThis against that, stacked the way a phone reads it.