Five ranked rows cascading in from five down to one, the last carrying the only accent in the frame.
The listicle, built so the payoff sits at the bottom where the format promises it. Counting down rather than up is what keeps someone watching to the end, and giving only the winner a coloured plate is what stops the frame reading as five equal options. Keep each item to a name; the reason it ranked belongs in the voice-over.
Keep each item to a name, SHURE SM58, and leave the reason it ranked to the voiceover. The kicker names the countdown and the headline the category. Only the winner gets the coloured plate, so the winner colour is the one accent in the frame.
Top Five Countdown is built at 1080 × 1920, a 9:16 portrait frame, the shape Reels, TikTok, Shorts and Stories fill from edge to edge, and runs 5 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 0.4 seconds, holds for 3.0 and clears in 1.5, 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.
Because the number one at the bottom is what keeps someone watching to the end. Counting up gives the answer first, and the rest of the list is a comedown.
Leave rows four and five empty and they vanish, though the frame is drawn for five and a three reads sparse. Better to fill five, even if the last two are honourable mentions.
