Broadcast

Doors Open Slabs

Two slabs parting from the centre line to leave the event title and its venue behind.

Duration
4s
Frame
1920 × 1080
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the Doors Open Slabs animation

The announcement card for a night with a door time — a market, a set, a screening. The slabs open rather than dissolve, which is the one visual joke the format gets to make and the reason it holds a frame that is otherwise just a title. Put the venue and the city on one line, because anyone who needs the address will look it up.

Where it fits

  • As the announcement card for a night with a door time.
  • On a market, a set or a screening post.
  • As the opening frame of an event teaser.

Filling it in

Put the venue and the city on one line, because anyone who needs the address will look it up. The label is DOORS OPEN or the time itself, and the event is the title in a word or two. No colour field; the slabs take their tone from the source.

Format and timing

Doors Open Slabs is built at 1920 × 1080, a 16:9 landscape frame, the shape of a YouTube video, a stream layout and most editing timelines, and runs 4 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 1.6 seconds, holds for 2.0 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

  • Labeltext
  • Eventtext
  • Venuetext

Questions about Doors Open Slabs

Why do the slabs part rather than fade?

Because it is the one visual joke the format gets to make: doors opening. It holds a frame that is otherwise just a title.

Can I put a time in the label?

Yes. DOORS 8PM fits and reads as the practical line. Keep it short, since the label sits on the slab edge.

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