Community

Community Join

Chat bubbles popping in the shape of a conversation, resolving into a single join pill.

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

About the Community Join animation

A community is easier to join when it looks inhabited, so this shows the talking before it shows the button. The bubbles carry no words on purpose, so they read as a conversation at any size, and legible dummy chat invites people to read it instead of the call to action. Put the community's name in the pill rather than the word 'community'.

Where it fits

  • At the end of a video, inviting people into the community.
  • As a Story pointing at the server link.
  • In a course or membership intro, showing the room is inhabited.

Filling it in

Put the community's name in the pill rather than the word community: JOIN THE EDIT ROOM. The pill colour is the accent. The bubbles carry no words on purpose, so the conversation reads at any size and nobody stops to read dummy chat instead of the call to action.

Format and timing

Community Join 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 0.2 seconds, holds for 2.0 and clears in 0.8, 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

  • CTAtext
  • CTA colourcolor

Questions about Community Join

Why are the chat bubbles empty?

Because legible dummy chat invites people to read it, and they stop looking at the button. Empty bubbles read as talking at any size and leave the pill as the only text.

Is it Discord-specific?

No. The default colour is close to Discord's, but nothing in the artwork names it. Change the pill colour and it reads as any community, a Slack, a Circle or a forum.

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