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YouTube Bell Menu

A YouTube bell that opens its notification menu on the press, with the All option ticked.

Duration
3s
Frame
640 × 360
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the YouTube Bell Menu animation

Bell Menu answers the specific confusion that subscribing alone does not turn notifications on. The menu unrolls from the control's own top edge rather than fading in. Use it after a subscribe prompt rather than instead of one, and keep the option labels matching what the app actually shows.

Where it fits

  • After a subscribe card, with a caption telling people which option to pick.
  • In a tutorial about YouTube notifications, at the bell step.
  • In a release announcement, pointing at All.

Filling it in

The caption is a spoken-style instruction, turn on all notifications, kept lower case and short. The three options match YouTube's and should stay that way unless your platform differs. The bell colour tints the bell itself. Run it after a subscribe prompt, not instead of one.

Format and timing

YouTube Bell Menu is built at 640 × 360, a 16:9 landscape frame, the shape of a YouTube video, a stream layout and most editing timelines, and runs 3 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 0.7 seconds, holds for 1.3 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.

What you can edit

  • Captiontext
  • Option 1text
  • Option 2text
  • Option 3text
  • Bell colourcolor

Questions about YouTube Bell Menu

What is different from the bell menu without a caption?

Only the caption line above the bell. Use this one when the instruction should be on screen; use the other when the voiceover already says it.

Does the menu open upward or downward?

Downward, from the control's own top edge, the way the real menu does. It unrolls rather than fading in, and the All option gets the tick.

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