One word cut through the cap line, the halves sliding in from opposite sides and locking together.
The title card that arrives as a mechanism rather than a fade, for a drop or a collection name. The bottom half tracks the top so an edit stays aligned, but the seam only reads on a short word set in caps. The date goes in the footer: the word is the image, the footer is the information.
The seam only reads on a short word set in caps, FORWARD. The bottom half tracks the top so an edit stays aligned, but a phrase loses the cut. The date goes in the footer; the word is the image and the footer is the information. The cut colour is the seam.
Split Lock Title is built at 1080 × 1080, a square frame, which sits in a feed post without cropping and centres neatly over wider footage, and runs 4 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 1.3 seconds, holds for 1.7 and clears in 0.9, 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.
Four to eight letters in caps. Shorter and the halves are stubs; longer and the type shrinks until the seam is a hairline.
Because it reads as a mechanism locking rather than a fade. The two halves meeting on the cap line is the one move the card makes, and it is enough.
