A still card, set in motion. Pick a starter and a style, and every layer comes in on its own beat as an MP4 for social posts or a GIF for email and docs. With a key, the same template renders up to 30 seconds at 1080p from one API call.

What the styles do

Each layer gets an entrance a beat after the one beneath it, so the card builds itself instead of appearing all at once:

Style	Text	Shapes and bars	Images
rise	slides up into place	wipes in from the left	zooms in
pop	springs up from small	springs up	springs up
type	appears a character at a time	fades in	fades in
fade, wipe, zoom	the same for every layer

A full-size background stays put. The demo renders up to six seconds, at 640 px for GIFs.

The same thing from code

Motion lives on the layers, so it is part of the template: give a layer an animate and it moves in videos and rests in images.

{ "name": "title", "type": "text", "text": "{{title}}", "x": 72, "y": 200, "width": 1056, "height": 200,
  "animate": { "in": "slide-up", "in_at": 0.2, "easing": "spring" } }

Then POST /v1/videos with the template, your variables and "format": "mp4", "webm" or "gif". It costs one image per second of video. The video guide lists every entrance, loop and exit, and the editor has an Animation section on every layer, with a play button to preview it.

Animated card maker

What the styles do

The same thing from code