Starter templates

Starter templates are structures more than stories. Each one does a single, well-known move cleanly, so it can carry whatever you put on it: cards fanning up into a stack and dealt off one by one, sheets sliding through the frame with a counter ticking, a filmstrip stepping each card to the middle, panes streaming past the camera from a vanishing point.

They come in two materials. The dark glass ones catch the light as they pass; the polished chrome ones carry reflections that slide over the metal as it turns. Several moves come in both, and the sliders and filmstrips come both wide and tall, so the same idea works on a landscape screen and in a vertical feed.

They suit designers who want a solid base to build on, and anyone who needs a clean piece of motion without starting from an empty scene. Every one takes your words: titles, captions and the names on each card. From there the scene is yours to change: the materials, the camera, the timing.

12 templates, all free, in 16:9 and 9:16, from 7 s to 8 s long.