About the X End Card animation

The drag gesture reads as more deliberate than a tap, which suits an end card where you have already earned the attention. The label is drawn in two inks so it survives the fill passing under it. Set the handle to yours.

Where it fits

  • As the outro of a video essay that continues on X.
  • At the end of a podcast episode, pointing at the host's account.
  • On a webinar recording, as the closing frame.

Filling it in

Set the handle with the @. The control label is the instruction, the after label the state, and the detail a reason. No colour field, because the label is drawn in two inks that swap as the fill passes under it, and that contrast is the design.

Format and timing

X End Card 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 0.9 seconds, holds for 1.9 and clears in 1.2, 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

  • Handletext
  • Controltext
  • After the swipetext
  • Detailtext

Questions about X End Card

How is this different from the wide swipe follow?

This is the end-card framing, with the track drawn across the full width and space above it for the handle and detail. The other is a tighter control for a stream scene.

Can I speed up the drag?

Speed the exported clip up in your editor by ten or twenty percent. The knob and cursor share timings, so they stay together at any speed.

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