Shorts Timer
Seconds counting down in the corner the buttons leave alone.
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
- 3
- Animated
- 3
What you can edit
- Text:
- Count, Unit
- Shapes:
- Disc
Browsing is open to everyone. An account is needed once you take a template into the editor.
How this one is built
Shorts Timer is built from 2 text layers and 1 shape, using a 20-pixel backdrop blur behind frosted glass rimmed in orange and a shadow 44 pixels deep. Its colours are near-black, orange and white. Type is set in IBM Plex Mono and Inter.
The disc scales up at 0.1s, the count scales up at 0.2s, the unit fades up at 0.4s. The whole run is 6s at 60 frames a second.
It sits along the top to the right of a vertical composition, spanning about 18% of the width at 190×190 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.
More Shorts templates
- Shorts Fact StackThree facts arriving in turn, one line each.
- Shorts PollTwo options with a bar under each, for the comments.
- Shorts WarningA caution bar for the thing people get wrong.
- Shorts Result CardThe number that pays off the hook, held large.
- Shorts LocationWhere this was filmed, sized for a phone.
- Shorts Swipe CueAn arrow saying there is more, for a series.
- Caption HighlightA spoken line with the word being said lit in turn.
- Caption Highlight PlateThe same line on a glass plate, for footage too busy to read text off.