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Playlist Stack

A stack of thumbnails squaring up behind a play button, the part count landing on a chip.

Duration
3.6s
Frame
640 × 360
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the Playlist Stack animation

The watch-the-series ask, cut as an overlay for mid-video. The stack is what says more than one, so the chip only has to say how many. Name the subject in the ask rather than writing watch the playlist: someone deciding wants to know what it is about, not what format it is in.

Where it fits

  • As the watch-the-series ask, cut as an overlay mid-video.
  • At the end of part one, pointing at the rest.
  • In a channel trailer, showing the depth of a series.

Filling it in

Name the subject in the ask rather than writing watch the playlist: WATCH THE WHOLE EDITING SERIES tells someone what it is about. The chip says how many parts. There is no colour field.

Format and timing

Playlist Stack 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 3.6 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 1.6 seconds, holds for 1.1 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

  • Asktext
  • Chiptext

Questions about Playlist Stack

Are the thumbnails in the stack real?

No. They are plates that square up behind the play button, so the stack says several without showing any one video. The chip carries the count.

Where should it sit in the frame?

A lower corner, over footage, for about three seconds. It reads as a suggestion rather than an interruption at that size.

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