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Sound Up

Level bars jumping along a baseline while the line and its kicker settle into the pill above them.

Duration
3s
Frame
640 × 360
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the Sound Up animation

The overlay for the moment the audio is the point: a mix drop, a snippet of dialogue, a sound worth hearing over a scroll. Put it a beat before the bit rather than on top of it, so someone unmuting still catches the thing they unmuted for. The kicker is what makes it worth doing: for this bit does more than a bare sound up.

Where it fits

  • A beat before a mix drop, a line of dialogue or a sound worth hearing.
  • On a music clip in a muted feed.
  • In a foley or ASMR clip, at the moment that needs ears.

Filling it in

Put it a beat before the bit rather than on top of it, so someone unmuting still catches what they unmuted for. The kicker is what makes it worth doing: FOR THIS BIT does more than a bare SOUND UP. The level bars colour is the accent.

Format and timing

Sound Up is built at 640 × 360, a 16:9 landscape frame, the shape of a YouTube video, a stream layout and most editing timelines, and runs 3 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 0.7 seconds, holds for 1.9 and clears in 0.4, so cue it a beat before the moment it labels. Export it as an MP4 for a timeline or a feed, a GIF where video will not embed, or a MOV with an alpha channel to lay it over footage with nothing behind it. Renders go up to 4K, and the free plan exports at 720p with a watermark.

What you can edit

  • Headlinetext
  • Kickertext
  • Level barscolor

Questions about Sound Up

How is this different from Turn Sound On?

This is smaller and later, an overlay for one specific moment. Turn Sound On is the opening cue for a whole video. Use this for a bit, that for the clip.

Do the level bars react to audio?

No. They jump on an authored pattern. Exports are silent, so the bars stand for sound rather than measuring it.

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