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Spotlight on your video

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Format (important)
Preview doesn't change the file

You'll download 1920×1080, 3.5 s, with a background (.mp4).

Spotlight Effect — Highlight Part of Your Video

Darkens and drains the color from everything around an area of your video —a face, a number on screen, a license plate— so that's where people look. The spotlight closes like an iris on the way in and opens on the way out, with a pulsing ring and a label with a leader line. It can move to a second area at the moment you choose. Four styles: circle, viewfinder box, band and hand-drawn marker. It goes over your clip.

  • 16:9
  • 9:16
  • 1:1
  • With background (MP4)
  • Full HD
  • 18 editable fields

What you can change

  • Style
  • Area: center, left ↔ right (%)
  • Area: center, top ↕ bottom (%)
  • Area: width (% of the frame)
  • Area: height (% of the frame)
  • How dark the rest gets (%)
  • Pulsing ring
  • Label
  • The spotlight moves to another area
  • Second area: left ↔ right (%)
  • Second area: top ↕ bottom (%)
  • Moves at frame
  • Second area label
  • Main color

Plus the typeface and an optional letter outline, in every template.

Spotlight Effect — Highlight Part of Your Video: a frame of the animation
A frame of the animation with its sample text. Scroll up to edit it live.

How to use it in your editor

This template is exported with its background, as a regular video.

  • CapCut

    1. Export the MP4.
    2. Import it and place it on your timeline like any clip.
    3. Trim it to the length you need.

  • Premiere Pro

    1. File → Import the MP4.
    2. Drag it onto your sequence.
    3. Cut or trim it like any clip.

  • DaVinci Resolve

    1. Import the MP4 into the Media Pool.
    2. Drag it onto your timeline.
    3. Trim it like any clip.

  • Final Cut Pro

    1. Import the MP4.
    2. Add it to your project's storyline.
    3. Trim it like any clip.

Questions

Do I need After Effects or a plugin?
No. You edit «Spotlight on your video» right here in your browser: type your text, choose colors and format, watch the live preview and export a video file that works in any editor.
What file do I get?
An MP4 with its background, in 1920×1080 (16:9), 1080×1920 (9:16) or 1080×1080 (1:1). This template frames your own material, so it is not offered without background.
Is it free?
Editing and previewing are free and need no account. To export you sign in with Google; during the open beta, new accounts get export credits at no cost.

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