Bundled templates

Frame Job comes with 23 ready-made motion graphics: titles, pointers for screencasts, social pieces, charts and timers. Insert one, fill in its text and colours, and it’s an ordinary graphic clip that you can change as far as you like, down to the code that draws it.

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Insert ▸ Graphic…

Where

Clip tab ▸ Graphic ▸ Properties

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The bundled templates

The Insert Graphic sheet lists the templates under four categories: Titles & Text, Screencast, Social & YouTube, and Data & Time. An overlay is transparent, so whatever is on the tracks below shows around it. A card fills the whole frame and hides what’s below.

Template	Category	Kind	Default length	At 30 fps
Arrow highlight	Screencast	Overlay	90 frames	3 s
Bar chart	Data & Time	Card	150 frames	5 s
Callout	Screencast	Overlay	90 frames	3 s
Chapter card	Titles & Text	Card	120 frames	4 s
Countdown	Data & Time	Overlay	330 frames	11 s
Counter	Data & Time	Overlay	90 frames	3 s
Donut chart	Data & Time	Card	150 frames	5 s
End screen	Social & YouTube	Card	300 frames	10 s
Gauge	Data & Time	Overlay	120 frames	4 s
Handle tag	Social & YouTube	Overlay	120 frames	4 s
Keyboard keys	Screencast	Overlay	90 frames	3 s
Kinetic type	Titles & Text	Card	150 frames	5 s
Line chart	Data & Time	Card	150 frames	5 s
Logo reveal	Titles & Text	Card	120 frames	4 s
Lower third	Titles & Text	Overlay	150 frames	5 s
News ticker	Titles & Text	Overlay	300 frames	10 s
Progress bar	Data & Time	Overlay	120 frames	4 s
Quote card	Titles & Text	Card	150 frames	5 s
Social popup	Social & YouTube	Overlay	120 frames	4 s
Step badge	Screencast	Overlay	90 frames	3 s
Subscribe button	Social & YouTube	Overlay	150 frames	5 s
Title card	Titles & Text	Card	120 frames	4 s
Window frame	Screencast	Overlay	150 frames	5 s

Insert a template

1. Move the playhead to where the graphic should start.

2. Choose Insert ▸ Graphic…, then a category, then a template. The preview plays it on a loop at your project’s canvas shape.

3. Choose Insert, press Return, or double-click the template.

The clip lands at the playhead, on the front track when it fits there, and otherwise on a new track above everything else. Insert a graphic covers the whole sheet.

Change what a template shows

Select the clip and open the Graphic sub-tab of the Clip tab. Properties has one row for each property the template offers, under the template’s own short name, such as boxWidth. A number with a range is a slider and a field, a number without one is a field, a yes-or-no choice is a checkbox and a fixed set of choices is a pop-up.

See Graphic properties for how the rows behave, and Animate graphic properties to change a value over time.

How long a template runs

The default length is in frames at your project’s frame rate, so a 150-frame template is 5 seconds in a 30 fps project and 2.5 seconds in a 60 fps one.

To change how long a graphic runs, drag the clip’s end on the timeline. Follow Clip is on for a new clip, so the exit moves with the clip’s end and the entrance still plays from the first frame. A few templates also time something else by the clip’s length:

Template	What follows the clip’s length
Counter	Reaches its final number about 70 % of the way through.
Progress bar	Reaches its value about 60 % of the way through.
Subscribe button	The first click lands 40 % of the way through.

Countdown and News ticker run in real time whatever the clip’s length. To fix a graphic’s length so it no longer follows the clip, see The graphic’s own timeline.

Titles & Text

Chapter card

A card with a large outlined chapter number, a kicker beside it, an accent rule drawing across and the title rising into view.

Property	What it does	Default
number	The chapter number, 0 to 99, always shown as two digits.	1
kicker	The small text beside the number. It wraps, shrinking to stay within three lines, down to a smallest size.	CHAPTER
title	The title under the rule, fitted to the width.	Getting started
background	The card’s colour.	#0b0b10
accent	The number’s outline and the rule.	#ff5a36

Kinetic type

A sentence shown word by word, each word springing in, on a near-black card. Every fifth word, counting from the fourth, takes the accent colour.

Property	What it does	Default
text	The sentence.	Make something people want to watch twice, then cut it in half
stagger	Frames between one word and the next, 1 to 30.	4
color	Most of the words.	#ffffff
accent	The fourth word, the ninth, the fourteenth and so on.	#ffd60a

The sentence wraps at 80 % of the canvas’s width, at one fixed size, and centres on the frame. A long one can run off the top and bottom, so split it across two clips. The card’s colour isn’t a property.

Logo reveal

A card on which an accent bar sweeps across, revealing your logo or a text mark. The bar then settles into a short rule, and a tagline fades up under it.

Property	What it does	Default
logo	A picture to reveal. None draws the mark instead.	None
mark	The text to reveal when there’s no picture, fitted to the width.	FRAME JOB
tagline	The line under the rule. Leave it empty for none.	Edit at the speed of thought
background	The card’s colour.	#0b0b10
accent	The bar and the rule.	#ff5a36

The logo pop-up lists the pictures added to the project’s graphics, so add yours first with File ▸ Add Image to Graphics…. See Fonts and pictures in graphics. The picture keeps its proportions inside a box half the width of the title-safe area.

Lower third

A name and a subtitle that slide in from the left and fade out, on a dark bar with an accent edge.

Property	What it does	Default
Title	The name.	Jane Doe
subtitle	The line under it.	Director of Photography
accent	The bar at the left edge.	#ff5a36
size	The size of the name, 12 to 200. The subtitle is half of it.	64
boxed	Draws the dark box behind the text. The accent bar stays either way.	On
align	Puts the whole block left, center or right. The text inside it stays left-aligned.	left

The box grows to fit the longer line, and the text isn’t shrunk to fit. A long name at a large size can run off the frame.

News ticker

A band along the foot of the frame with a headline box at its left and items crawling right to left, with an accent dot between them. Type the items in one field, separated by a vertical bar (|). They repeat for as long as the clip runs.

Property	What it does	Default
headline	The text in the box. Leave it empty for no box.	BREAKING
items	The items, separated by a vertical bar.	Three sample lines
speed	How fast they crawl, 40 to 600, in pixels a second when the canvas’s shorter side is 1080, and in proportion on others.	160
background	The band’s colour, slightly see-through.	#101014
accent	The headline box, the band’s top edge and the dots.	#e5322d

Quote card

A card with a large quote mark, the quote’s lines fading up in turn, and a short rule and the attribution sliding in.

Property	What it does	Default
quote	The quote, in a text area.	Good editing is invisible. All anyone should notice is the story.
attribution	Who said it, drawn after a dash. Leave it empty for no name.	The Editor
background	The card’s colour.	#101014
accent	The quote mark and the rule.	#ffd60a

The quote shrinks and wraps to fit the frame. It wraps by itself, so line breaks you type are treated as spaces.

Title card

A title fitted to the frame with a kicker above it, over a diagonal two-colour gradient. The text fades in and rises, then fades out over the last 18 frames, and the gradient stays.

Property	What it does	Default
title	The title, fitted to 80 % of the canvas’s width.	The Long Road to a Motion Graphic
kicker	The small line above it.	CHAPTER ONE
from	The gradient’s top-left colour.	#1b2a6b
to	The gradient’s bottom-right colour.	#c2185b

Screencast

Arrow highlight

Points at something on a screen recording: a rounded box drawn on around a spot, an arrow growing toward it from the side nearer the frame’s centre, and a label at the arrow’s tail.

Property	What it does	Default
x, y	The spot, as a fraction of the frame’s width and height, 0 to 1.	0.62, 0.42
boxWidth, boxHeight	The box’s size, as a fraction of the frame, 0.02 to 0.8.	0.22, 0.14
shape	box+arrow, box or arrow.	box+arrow
label	The text. Leave it empty for none.	Look here
accent	The box and the arrow.	#ffd60a

With box the label sits under the box, or above it when there’s no room. With arrow the arrow points at the spot itself and the two box sizes do nothing. The box, arrow and label are always kept inside the title-safe area, so a spot near the edge is moved in.

Callout

A circle that draws itself round a spot, with an arrow and a label.

Property	What it does	Default
x, y	The circle’s centre, as a fraction of the frame’s width and height, 0 to 1.	0.62, 0.4
label	The text at the arrow’s tail.	Click here first
color	The circle and the arrow.	#ff3b30

The arrow always comes from the lower left, and nothing keeps it on the frame. Near the left or bottom edge the arrow and label run off, so use Arrow highlight there.

Keyboard keys

A shortcut drawn as keycaps that pop in one after another and are then pressed in turn, with a label under them.

Property	What it does	Default
keys	The keys, joined by +.	cmd+shift+4
label	The line under the keys. Leave it empty for none.	Screenshot a selection
theme	light or dark keycaps.	light
position	bottom, center or top.	bottom
accent	The small bar on each keycap.	#ff5a36

The names in keys can be in any case:

Type	To draw
cmd, command or ⌘	⌘
shift or ⇧	⇧
opt, option, alt or ⌥	⌥
ctrl, control or ⌃	⌃
up, down, left, right	An arrow
plus	The + key
One character	That character, in capitals
Anything longer, such as esc	That word on a wider keycap

A long row of keys shrinks to fit the frame. A clip needs at least 25 frames plus 10 for each key to press them all before its exit, so a shortcut of seven or more keys wants longer than the default 90 frames.

Shortcut overlays places clips drawn by this template for you, from the shortcuts in a screen recording.

Step badge

A numbered accent circle popping in at a corner, with a label panel wiping out from behind it.

Property	What it does	Default
number	The step’s number, 0 to 99.	1
label	The panel’s text. Leave it empty for no panel.	Open the export sheet
position	top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right.	top-left
accent	The circle.	#ff5a36

Window frame

A browser or app window’s frame to sit over a screen recording: a title bar with three dots, a title or an address field, and a rounded outline. The inside stays clear.

Put the recording on a track below the frame, then use the Picture sub-tab to fit it inside the outline.

Property	What it does	Default
style	browser draws back and forward arrows and an address field. window draws a title.	browser
title	The title, shown with the window style.	Frame Job
url	The address, shown with the browser style.	example.com
theme	dark or light.	dark
scale	The share of the title-safe area the frame covers, 0.5 to 1.	0.86
shadow	Draws a soft shadow outside the outline.	On
accent	The address field’s outline, so it has no effect with window.	#ff5a36

The shadow is only as wide as the room around the frame, so it thins out as scale nears 1.

Social & YouTube

End screen

A card laid out for a video’s end screen: a title, two 16:9 spaces and a subscribe circle. On a landscape or square canvas the two spaces sit side by side with the circle centred under them. On a portrait canvas they’re a column.

Property	What it does	Default
title	The line at the top. Leave it empty for none.	Watch next
videoA	The label under the first space.	Latest video
videoB	The label under the second space.	Best for you
subscribe	The label under the circle.	Subscribe
background	The card’s colour.	#0b0b10
accent	The play buttons and the circle’s outline.	#ff5a36

The spaces are placeholders drawn into the picture, for the video elements you add on the platform when you publish. They don’t link to anything.

Handle tag

An accent tile holding a glyph, with a pill showing your @handle expanding from behind it, at a corner.

Property	What it does	Default
handle	The text in the pill. Leave it empty for no pill.	@framejob
glyph	play, camera, bubble, note or globe.	play
position	bottom-left, bottom-right, top-left or top-right.	bottom-left
accent	The tile.	#ff5a36

Social popup

A notification card rising in at a corner, with a generic avatar and a handle. Its heart, speech bubble or share arrow pops as the count ticks up by one.

Property	What it does	Default
kind	like draws a heart, comment a speech bubble and share an arrow.	like
handle	The name on the card.	@framejob
text	The comment. It shows only with comment, at most three lines, and anything further is dropped.	Loved this edit!
count	The number it starts from, 0 or more. It ends one higher.	1280
position	bottom-right, bottom-left, top-right or top-left.	bottom-right
accent	The heart, bubble or arrow.	#ff3b30

Subscribe button

A button that a cursor glides to and clicks. It turns grey with a check and its done label, then a bell pops in beside it and rings after a second click.

Property	What it does	Default
label	The button before the click.	SUBSCRIBE
doneLabel	The button after it.	SUBSCRIBED
bell	Adds the bell and the second click.	On
position	bottom, center or top.	bottom
accent	The button before the click, and the bell once it’s clicked.	#e5322d

Data & Time

The three charts read their data from text fields, with entries separated by commas:

• Values and labels pair up by position, and a value with no label has a blank one.
• An entry that isn’t a number is dropped, so the values after it line up one label earlier.
• An empty entry, such as a comma at the end, counts as 0.

Bar chart

Bars growing one after another on a dark card, each with its figure above it and its label below, under a title.

Property	What it does	Default
values	The bars’ values, separated by commas.	12, 19, 7, 24, 15, 30
labels	The labels, separated by commas.	Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
title	The line at the top. It isn’t fitted, so keep it short.	Sessions per day
color	The bars.	#2d7ff9

The tallest bar sets the scale, and the figures are rounded to whole numbers. The card’s colour isn’t a property.

Countdown

A timer counting down or up, one step a second, inside a ring that empties or fills. The digits pulse on each tick, and the circle flashes in the accent colour at the end.

Property	What it does	Default
from	The starting number, in seconds.	10
to	The final number. Make it greater than from to count up.	0
format	seconds shows 90, m:ss shows 1:30 and h:mm:ss shows 0:01:30.	m:ss
label	The line above the digits, drawn in capitals.	Starting in
ring	Draws the ring. Without it the digits stay on their dark disc.	On
accent	The ring and the flash.	#ff5a36

The count runs in real seconds whatever the frame rate, so the clip’s length decides how far it gets. The default 330 frames is 11 seconds at 30 fps, which fits a ten-second count and the exit. At 60 fps that clip is 5.5 seconds, so lengthen it. For any longer count, lengthen the clip to the count plus a second.

With from and to equal there’s nothing to count: the number stands in a full ring and nothing flashes.

Counter

A number counting from one value to another with thousands separators, a prefix and a label under it. It starts fast and slows into its final number, then holds.

Property	What it does	Default
from	The starting number.	0
to	The final number.	1284093
prefix	Text right before the number.	$
label	The line under it.	raised this year
color	The number and the label.	#f5f5f0

The number shows no decimals, and it isn’t shrunk to fit, so a very long one can run past the edges.

Donut chart

Slices sweeping round a donut on a dark card, with the first slice’s share counting up in the centre above its label, and a legend with each share. The legend sits beside the donut on a landscape or square canvas, and below it on a portrait one.

Property	What it does	Default
values	The slices’ values, separated by commas. A value below 0 counts as 0.	45, 30, 15, 10
labels	The labels, separated by commas.	Video, Audio, Graphics, Other
title	The line at the top.	Where the time goes
accent	The first slice.	#ff5a36

The other slices take colours from a fixed set of six, in order, repeating after the sixth. The shares are rounded to whole percentages, so they may not add up to exactly 100. The card’s colour isn’t a property.

Gauge

A 270° dial with ticks, whose accent arc and needle swing to a value while the figure counts up.

Property	What it does	Default
value	The reading, held between min and max.	72
min	The start of the dial.	0
max	The end of the dial. At or below min it’s taken as min plus 1.	100
label	The line inside the dial, drawn in capitals.	Speed
units	The line under the figure.	km/h
accent	The arc and the needle.	#ff5a36

A whole value counts in whole numbers, and any other shows one decimal place.

Line chart

A line drawn on through its points on a dark card, a dot popping at each one, with the last value called out in a pill.

Property	What it does	Default
values	The points, separated by commas.	12, 18, 15, 26, 22, 34, 41
labels	The labels along the bottom, separated by commas.	Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul
title	The line at the top.	Monthly active users
area	Shades the area under the line.	On
accent	The line, the dots’ outlines, the shading and the pill.	#2d7ff9

The scale runs from 0, or from the lowest value if that’s negative, up to the highest. A single value draws one dot and no line. The card’s colour isn’t a property.

Progress bar

A labelled bar on a dark plate, filling to a percentage with the figure counting, and a shine sweeping across it once it has filled.

Property	What it does	Default
value	How far it fills, 0 to 100.	68
label	The text above the bar.	Rendering
showPercent	Shows the percentage at the right.	On
position	bottom, center or top.	bottom
accent	The fill.	#2d7ff9

Any canvas shape

Templates size themselves by the shorter side of the size they draw at, which is the canvas’s unless you change it, so nothing grows too large on a tall project.

Seventeen of them are laid out for all three shapes. Everything they draw stays inside the title-safe area, the frame less 5 % on every side, at 1920 × 1080, 1080 × 1920 and 1080 × 1080. Their entrances are a spring, a wipe or a fade, and never a move in from outside the frame. Long text is fitted or wrapped to stay inside, down to a smallest size for each text, so a paragraph typed where a title belongs can still run over.

The other six are Bar chart, Callout, Counter, Kinetic type, Lower third and Title card. They don’t keep to the title-safe area, and a left-aligned Lower third enters from beyond the frame’s left edge. Once settled, with their default text, their words sit at least 24 pixels inside a 1080 × 1920 frame. Only Title card fits its title and Kinetic type wraps its text, so check your own words on a tall canvas. Safe areas shows the title-safe guide in the preview.

A square canvas takes the landscape layout.

Templates end clean

The same seventeen each have an accent colour and leave in about their last 15 frames, so the last frame is bare. An overlay ends clear, and a card ends on its background alone. A card’s background never animates: only what’s on it moves or fades.

The other six end their own way:

Template	At the end of the clip
Lower third	Fades out over the last 15 frames and ends clear.
Title card	Its text fades over the last 18 frames, leaving the gradient.
Bar chart, Callout, Counter, Kinetic type	Hold to the last frame and stop with the clip.

Template fonts and glyphs

Templates draw only with fonts that come with Frame Job, so a project looks the same on any Mac. The font isn’t a property. To change it, edit the graphic’s code.

Used for	Font
Text in most templates	Montserrat, extra bold or black
Digits that tick, the shares in Donut chart’s legend, Counter’s label and the figures in Bar chart	IBM Plex Mono
Window frame’s title and address	Source Sans 3, semibold
Title card’s title	Anton
Title card’s kicker and Bar chart’s labels	Bebas Neue
Callout’s label	Darker Grotesque

Every symbol is a generic shape drawn by the template, never a brand’s artwork: the keycap symbols, the heart, the bell, the play triangle and the glyphs in Handle tag. None of them is a platform’s own logo.

Good to know

• Each insert copies the template into the project under a name not yet in use, such as lower-third, then lower-third-2. Undo takes the clip away, and the copy stays until you delete it.
• Your copy is yours to change, and it stays as it was when you inserted it. Graphics in a vertical version covers the one exception.
• Most properties can change over time with an action. These keep one value for the whole clip: number in Chapter card and Step badge, values and labels in Donut chart and Line chart, keys in Keyboard keys, items in News ticker and count in Social popup.

With an agent

list_graphics lists the templates by category, as the sheet does. insert_graphic places one at the playhead: give it the name list_graphics shows, such as arrow-highlight, with from set to template. The reply names the project’s copy, which may be arrow-highlight-2. To fill in the properties afterwards, use set_graphic, with the names in the tables above. See Tools: graphics.

Related

• What a graphic is
• Insert a graphic
• Graphic properties
• Animate graphic properties
• Graphic size and timing
• Edit a module