{
 "name": "Takes motion graphics",
 "url": "https://gettakes.app/motion",
 "updated": "2026-11-01",
 "how": "Each effect is a HyperFrames composition that Takes (gettakes.app, free Mac app) renders on a talking-head video, timed to the words. Paste the prompt in the Takes chat, or ask Claude Code with the Takes MCP.",
 "effects": [
  {
   "name": "Words around",
   "term": "Text animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/text-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/text-animation.mp4?v=42fa781e",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "A key line you want to land word by word",
    "Hooks in the first 3 seconds",
    "Shots with free space beside the head"
   ],
   "about": "Big white words appear in the empty space around the speaker, one at a time, each rising out of a mask on the beat it is said. In a tall frame they sit under the head, one line flush left and the next flush right; in a wide frame they sit left and right of the head. The footage stays as it is: no darkening, no zoom.",
   "prompt": "Add Words around from 0:04: \"I posted / every day / for 30 days\", each word on the beat I say it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "words-around"
  },
  {
   "name": "Word stickers",
   "term": "Kinetic typography",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/kinetic-typography",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/kinetic-typography.mp4?v=1a66b881",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Playful lists said on camera",
    "Punchlines",
    "Intros (\"I love to film, edit, post\")"
   ],
   "about": "Small cream lead words pop on in a ragged stack beside the head, then one big key word bounces in under them in a bright colour. Each beat swaps the key word while the lead words stay. A key word can get a sticker: a green star-burst badge, or hand-drawn stars and sparkle lines.",
   "prompt": "Add Word stickers at 0:02: \"this is\" Lena with a green burst, then \"she loves to\" film, edit, post, then \"every\" day with stars, each word on its beat.",
   "takes_effect_id": "word-stickers"
  },
  {
   "name": "Checklist",
   "term": "Checklist animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/checklist-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/checklist-animation.mp4?v=da8219eb",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Steps, rules or reasons said as a list",
    "\"3 things before you post\"",
    "Tutorial recaps"
   ],
   "about": "A dark card rises in the lower third with a title and a count (0/3). Each line comes in as it is said, its box fills green, a check draws in and the text dims with a thin strike. When all lines are done the count turns green and the card leaves.",
   "prompt": "Add a Checklist at 0:10 titled \"3 things before you post\" with: Hook in the first line, One idea not three, End with a question. Each line comes in when I say it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "checklist"
  },
  {
   "name": "Text behind",
   "term": "Text behind person",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/text-behind-person",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/text-behind-person.mp4?v=3edde258",
   "kind": "Cut-out",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "One big number: views, revenue, followers",
    "A price or a short claim",
    "A one-word hook"
   ],
   "about": "The footage pulls back into a dark frame and a huge word or number rises up behind the speaker's head, with a small accent line above it. The speaker is cut out of the same footage, so the head stays in front of the word. Then the word sinks and the frame returns to full size.",
   "prompt": "Add Text behind at 0:08 with the word \"50K\" and \"Views this week\" above it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "text-behind"
  },
  {
   "name": "Glass graph",
   "term": "Animated bar graph",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/animated-bar-graph",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/animated-bar-graph.mp4?v=e2650a32",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Saying a result out loud",
    "Views, sign-ups or revenue with a few parts",
    "Proof in the first 10 seconds"
   ],
   "about": "A frosted-glass card rises in the lower third with the footage blurred behind it: a label, a big number that counts up, and five bars that grow one after the other.",
   "prompt": "Add a Glass graph at 0:12: \"Views \u00b7 first week\", total 248,312, bars Mon to Fri with Wednesday highlighted.",
   "takes_effect_id": "glass-graph"
  },
  {
   "name": "Over the shoulder",
   "term": "Counter animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/counter-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/counter-animation.mp4?v=29141631",
   "kind": "Cut-out",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Two proof numbers in one breath",
    "Views and followers",
    "Before and after"
   ],
   "about": "Two stat cards slide out from behind the speaker's head and their numbers count up, each with an optional change tag. The footage stays full-bleed with only a light vignette, and the speaker stays in front of the cards.",
   "prompt": "Add Over the shoulder at 0:05: \"Views 248K\" (+3x last month) and \"Followers 8.6K\" (+1.4K this week).",
   "takes_effect_id": "over-the-shoulder"
  },
  {
   "name": "Freeze sticker",
   "term": "Freeze frame effect",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/freeze-frame-effect",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/freeze-frame-effect.mp4?v=b0194650",
   "kind": "Cut-out",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Introducing yourself or a guest",
    "A beat where you stop and point at the person",
    "Video intros"
   ],
   "about": "The picture freezes, the speaker lifts off as a sticker with a thick white outline over a blurred, darker background, and a name tag pops on. Then the live footage goes on.",
   "prompt": "Add a Freeze sticker at 0:01 with the name tag \"Lena\" and \"Creator\" under it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "freeze-sticker"
  },
  {
   "name": "Scribble outline",
   "term": "Scribble effect",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/scribble-effect",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/scribble-effect.mp4?v=740b79d1",
   "kind": "Cut-out",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "\"This is me\" intros",
    "A list of things you do",
    "Reaction beats"
   ],
   "about": "A hand-drawn marker line draws on around the speaker, a little away from the body, and boils like stop motion. On each beat it draws on again in a new colour: white, yellow-green, light blue.",
   "prompt": "Add a Scribble outline at 0:03 that redraws in white, yellow-green and light blue on my beats.",
   "takes_effect_id": "scribble-outline"
  },
  {
   "name": "Colour grade",
   "term": "Color grading before and after",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/color-grading-before-and-after",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/color-grading-before-and-after.mp4?v=ff57ef44",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Talking about the look of a video",
    "Editing and colour tips",
    "Making a plain shot feel produced"
   ],
   "about": "A before and after wipe: flat, log-like footage on one side, a cinematic grade on the other, and a divider with a handle that sweeps across. It leaves the frame graded.",
   "prompt": "Add the Colour grade wipe at 0:07, labelled Before and After.",
   "takes_effect_id": "color-grade"
  },
  {
   "name": "Tier list",
   "term": "Tier list animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/tier-list-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/tier-list-animation.mp4?v=23c2dfbe",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Ranking tools or apps",
    "Comparing habits or options",
    "Hot takes"
   ],
   "about": "An S/A/B/C/D board in the lower half. Tiles drop into their rows one by one while a chip says \"Ranking\u2026\", then \"Ranked\".",
   "prompt": "Add a Tier list at 0:09 titled \"Ranking my hooks\u2026\" and drop each hook into its row as I name it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "tier-list"
  },
  {
   "name": "Proof card",
   "term": "Screenshot animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/screenshot-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/screenshot-animation.mp4?v=c094cd5a",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Backing a result with the screenshot",
    "A post, an email or a review",
    "Dashboards"
   ],
   "about": "A screenshot flies up into the lower middle as a card with a soft shadow and a slight 3D tilt, settles flat, gets a highlighter swipe over one area, then leaves. A small chip says \"Real numbers\".",
   "prompt": "Add a Proof card at 0:11 with my reel analytics screenshot and highlight the views number.",
   "takes_effect_id": "proof-card"
  },
  {
   "name": "Note arrow",
   "term": "Arrow animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/arrow-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/arrow-animation.mp4?v=9daa7bd6",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Pointing at one thing in the shot",
    "A short fact about it",
    "Casual vlog notes"
   ],
   "about": "A short handwritten note in white marker letters next to the speaker, with a hand-drawn curved arrow that points at one spot: a hand, a cup, something they hold. The arrow draws on with a flick, then the note writes on letter by letter.",
   "prompt": "Add Note arrows at 0:04: point at my iced coffee with \"iced coffee = take 4 energy\", then at my shirt with \"same tee, every video\".",
   "takes_effect_id": "note-arrow"
  },
  {
   "name": "Pick list",
   "term": "Quiz animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/quiz-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/quiz-animation.mp4?v=b84fa055",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "A choice question, then the answer",
    "Which tool, which plan, what next",
    "Polls you answer yourself"
   ],
   "about": "A big yellow question stacks in the free space beside or under the speaker, three or four options type in under it, a game-menu pointer steps down the list, and the answer turns into a teal pixel pill with a burst of pixel dots.",
   "prompt": "Add a Pick list at 0:06: \"Which hook?\" with POV: you..., 3 things I..., Wait for it...; pick \"3 things I...\" when I say it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "pick-list"
  },
  {
   "name": "Pixel wipe",
   "term": "Pixel transition",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/pixel-transition",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/pixel-transition.mp4?v=d288911c",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "A transition into a camera shot",
    "One big number said out loud",
    "Retro or gaming topics"
   ],
   "about": "The footage starts as a mosaic of big blocks that snap back to sharp one by one. Then the space beside the head turns to mosaic again and a big number builds out of white blocks there, holds and breaks up.",
   "prompt": "Open with a Pixel wipe and build \"1.2M\" under my head when I say it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "pixel-wipe"
  },
  {
   "name": "Urgency gauge",
   "term": "Speedometer animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/speedometer-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/speedometer-animation.mp4?v=27087372",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Raising the stakes",
    "Deadlines and reasons to act now",
    "\"This turns it up to the max\""
   ],
   "about": "A dial on a dark panel: the needle sweeps from Normal to Maximum impact and lights each tick it passes, white then amber then red. Then a crimson button rises under it and glows.",
   "prompt": "Add the Urgency gauge at 0:13 from \"Someday\" to \"Right now\", needle almost to the max, then a \"Post\" button.",
   "takes_effect_id": "urgency-gauge"
  },
  {
   "name": "Arrow pipeline",
   "term": "Process animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/process-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/process-animation.mp4?v=da010abb",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "How something works in steps",
    "Ending on your product's name",
    "Workflow explainers"
   ],
   "about": "A white page with dashed guides: steps come in one by one as words joined by orange arrows while the row slides left. The last step, the name of your product, lands in the centre with a burst of thin lines and dots.",
   "prompt": "Add an Arrow pipeline at 0:15: record, cut, caption, then Takes, each step when I say it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "arrow-pipeline"
  },
  {
   "name": "Framework map",
   "term": "Mind map animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/mind-map-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/mind-map-animation.mp4?v=7545e469",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "A system with four parts",
    "Coming back to a framework step by step",
    "Course and coaching content"
   ],
   "about": "A crimson glowing node with curved wires to four frosted cards. The cards come in blurred, and each one sharpens as its step is named. At the end a red ring of rays opens behind the node.",
   "prompt": "Add a Framework map at 0:08 titled \"My posting system\": \"One take\" in the middle, with Record, Cut, Caption and Post, each sharp when I name it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "framework-map"
  },
  {
   "name": "Gradient bars",
   "term": "Bar chart animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/bar-chart-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/bar-chart-animation.mp4?v=9b3c509a",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "The line where a comparison proves your point",
    "Your thing is the biggest number",
    "Benchmarks"
   ],
   "about": "A plum page with a faint grid. The title rises word by word, then the bars grow one after the other with their values counting up. Your bar is orange to peach over a warm glow; the others are white to lilac.",
   "prompt": "Add Gradient bars at 0:10: \"Videos I post per week\": With Takes 12, Desktop editor 5, Phone app 4, By hand 2.",
   "takes_effect_id": "gradient-bars"
  },
  {
   "name": "Old vs new",
   "term": "Before and after text",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/before-and-after-text",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/before-and-after-text.mp4?v=6199732c",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "What people believe vs what is true now",
    "Before and after",
    "Myth-busting"
   ],
   "about": "Two dark document cards side by side under italic serif labels, Old belief and New reveal. The text types into each card line by line as it is said, and one phrase of the new card turns crimson.",
   "prompt": "Add Old vs new at 0:06. Before: Edit for hours, Post once a week. With Takes: Talk once, Takes cuts it, Post it today, with \"today\" in red.",
   "takes_effect_id": "old-vs-new"
  },
  {
   "name": "Particle title",
   "term": "Title animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/title-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/title-animation.mp4?v=80895ee9",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Naming the big idea",
    "Chapter titles",
    "Product names"
   ],
   "about": "A plum page: one dot draws a curve, then about seventy thin lines stream and branch out of the same point, with dots on their tips and one in orange, while a big one- or two-word title rises in the corners.",
   "prompt": "Add a Particle title at 0:01 with \"Post\" and \"daily\", each word when I say it.",
   "takes_effect_id": "particle-title"
  },
  {
   "name": "Phone feed out",
   "term": "Social media post animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/social-media-post-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/social-media-post-animation.mp4?v=8fcd68f4",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "A beat about posting or going viral",
    "Talking about the feed or your audience",
    "Making the video look like a post"
   ],
   "about": "The full-frame video shrinks back into a post in a made-up social feed, with an icon column, handle, caption and music line. The heart gets a tap, the post swipes up, and the next post comes in from below and grows back to full frame.",
   "prompt": "Add Phone feed out at 0:09 with my handle, the caption \"how I post a video every day\", a heart tap, and \"part 2: the edit\" as the next post.",
   "takes_effect_id": "phone-feed-out"
  },
  {
   "name": "Proof stack",
   "term": "Bullet point animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/bullet-point-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/bullet-point-animation.mp4?v=aa989d96",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Proof sections",
    "The claim, the reason, the source",
    "Calls to action"
   ],
   "about": "The light paper look: white pill rows with red bullets and italic serif text, joined by a crimson line. Each row's words rise as they are said, and the answer row turns green.",
   "prompt": "Add a Proof stack at 0:14 titled \"Why it actually works\": One take no script, Cut by words, Posted in 10 minutes; the last row turns green.",
   "takes_effect_id": "proof-stack"
  },
  {
   "name": "Split explainer",
   "term": "Explainer video template",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/explainer-video-template",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/explainer-video-template.mp4?v=de880234",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": false,
   "for": [
    "Explainers with a framework or steps",
    "Holding a map, gauge or list in the graphics area",
    "The whole explainer part of a video"
   ],
   "about": "A black page for explaining a framework: a title at the top, a graphics area, the speaker's camera in a rounded box, and one caption line between them. Hard cuts to the full-frame camera for punch lines.",
   "prompt": "Use the Split explainer from 0:05 to 0:40 with the title \"Film it once, post it daily\", and cut to full frame on the punch lines.",
   "takes_effect_id": "split-explainer"
  },
  {
   "name": "Click ring",
   "term": "Click animation",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/click-animation",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/click-animation.mp4?v=018c6718",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": true,
   "for": [
    "Screen demos",
    "Showing which button you clicked",
    "Tutorials and bug reports"
   ],
   "about": "A soft ring opens at each click in a screen recording, right where the pointer clicked, then fades. The real pointer stays as it was recorded. Takes logs every click while it records, so the rings land on the right spot.",
   "prompt": "Add Click rings to every click in my screen take.",
   "takes_effect_id": "click-ring"
  },
  {
   "name": "Screen zoom",
   "term": "Screen recording zoom",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/screen-recording-zoom",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/screen-recording-zoom.mp4?v=92b673cd",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": true,
   "for": [
    "Tutorials where small buttons matter",
    "Product walkthroughs",
    "Bug reports"
   ],
   "about": "The screen recording zooms in before each click, the view follows the pointer, then it eases back out. The pointer zooms with the screen and can be the Mac arrow, a white dot or your own picture.",
   "prompt": "Zoom in on each click in my screen take, and let the view follow my pointer.",
   "takes_effect_id": "screen-zoom"
  },
  {
   "name": "Step aside in pauses",
   "term": "Webcam bubble",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/webcam-bubble",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/webcam-bubble.mp4?v=4be4197a",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": true,
   "for": [
    "Long screen and camera videos",
    "Demos where you stop talking while you click",
    "Walkthroughs"
   ],
   "about": "The screen recording fills the frame and you sit in a round bubble in a corner. When you pause for a breath or longer, the bubble fades out so the screen has the frame, and it fades back just before you speak.",
   "prompt": "Put me in a round bubble bottom left over the screen, and hide it while I'm quiet.",
   "takes_effect_id": "hide-in-silence"
  },
  {
   "name": "Layout morph",
   "term": "Screen recording with webcam",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/screen-recording-with-webcam",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/screen-recording-with-webcam.mp4?v=b3dec9cc",
   "kind": "Overlay",
   "screen_video": true,
   "for": [
    "Small while the screen matters, big when you talk to the lens",
    "Demos with an intro and an outro",
    "Course videos"
   ],
   "about": "You sit over a screen recording in a card, a round bubble, a tall side panel or the full frame, and change layout mid-video: the box glides, resizes and rounds into the next layout in 0.7 s, with a short whoosh on each change.",
   "prompt": "Start me in a card, go to a bubble bottom left while I show the screen, then a side panel, then a card bottom right.",
   "takes_effect_id": "layout-morph"
  },
  {
   "name": "Split screen",
   "term": "Split screen video",
   "page": "https://gettakes.app/motion/split-screen-video",
   "preview_mp4": "https://gettakes.app/mfx/split-screen-video.mp4?v=a7fd4b33",
   "kind": "Full frame",
   "screen_video": true,
   "for": [
    "Walking through an app or a doc while you talk",
    "Reaction-style demos",
    "Tall videos with a screen take"
   ],
   "about": "The frame splits: in 16:9 the speaker and the screen recording (or gameplay, or any b-roll) sit side by side; in 9:16 the speaker is on top and the screen below, each with rounded corners and a label chip. Then it returns to full frame.",
   "prompt": "Split the screen from 0:05 to 0:20: me on the left, my gameplay on the right, labelled Me and Game.",
   "takes_effect_id": "split-screen"
  }
 ]
}