A scrubber jumping between chapter ticks, the played bar snapping forward with it.
The skip-ahead overlay, for a video whose best part is four minutes in. Put the real timestamp in the ask, because a viewer who reads skip to 4:12 can act on it without opening the description. Cut it over the moment they would otherwise have left.
Put the real timestamp in the ask, SKIP TO 4:12, because a viewer who reads it can act without opening the description. The scrubber colour is the played bar that snaps forward. Cut it over the moment they would have left.
Chapter Jump 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 0.9 seconds, holds for 1.3 and clears in 0.8, 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.
The scrubber jumps between fixed chapter ticks, so it shows a jump rather than plotting your timestamp. The text is what carries the exact time.
Because a viewer who skips stays, and one who does not skip leaves. Pointing at the payoff is better retention than hoping they wait for it.
