Food

Tonight's Special, Square

Put tonight's special on a plate, with the price on a tag and the time you start serving.

Duration
8s
Frame
1080 × 1080
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the Tonight's Special, Square animation

A plate draws itself in and fills with a swipe of sauce, the cutlery slides in beside it and steam keeps rising off the dish. The price tag swings onto the rim as the dish name settles in. Sized 1080 × 1080 for the Instagram feed and Facebook. Change the small label, dish, detail, price, day and time, business name and dish photo, then match the colours to your brand.

Where it fits

  • Post the dish of the day, a chef's special or a weekend plate a few hours before service.
  • Sized for the Instagram feed and Facebook.

Filling it in

Keep the dish to two short lines and the price short, such as $24 or 18 €. Add a top-down photo of the dish and it fills the plate, or leave it empty for a clean drawn plate. Pick a highlight colour from your own menu or sign so every post looks like your place.

Format and timing

Tonight's Special, Square is built at 1080 × 1080, a square frame, which sits in a feed post without cropping and centres neatly over wider footage, and runs 8 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 2.0 seconds, holds for 4.4 and clears in 1.6, 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 on a paid plan.

What you can edit

  • Small labeltext
  • Dishtext
  • Detailtext
  • Pricetext
  • Whentext
  • Business nametext
  • Dish photoimage
  • Background colourcolor
  • Highlight colourcolor

Questions about Tonight's Special, Square

Which details can I change?

The small label, dish, detail, price, day and time, business name and dish photo, plus the background and highlight colours.

Does it loop?

Yes. Every element leaves before the end, so it loops cleanly as a Reel or Story.

Is there a version for the other format?

Yes. Tonight's Special, Story is the same design at 1080 × 1920.

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