Headlines & callouts: agent skills for on-screen titles, lower thirds and callouts
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Words over footage: headlines, key phrases, lower thirds, highlights and callouts that point at the thing that matters. 17 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.
Skills (17)
Effects (14)
- Kicker Over Rising Headline — HeyGen: A small mono kicker fades in, then the headline rises word by word from a soft blur.
- Rotating Benefit Word — Aceternity UI: A fixed phrase holds while one word in it cycles through benefits, uses or audiences.
- Masked Line Reveal — Daniel Petho: Each line slides up out of an invisible slot, so the type looks cut from the frame.
- Marker on the Key Phrase — HeyGen: A marker band draws behind the one phrase that matters while the rest of the line stays calm.
- Strike Old, Write New — HeyGen: A line strikes through the old way, then the new word takes its place.
- Clean Lower Third — HeyGen: Name and role slide in at the lower left on a quiet bar, hold 3–5 s, then wipe out.
- Hand-Drawn Callout Arrow — HeyGen: A wobbly arrow draws itself from a short label to the exact button or number on screen.
- Dim Everything But the Target — HeyGen: The frame darkens except a soft ellipse around the element being talked about.
- Impact Headline Slam — HeyGen: A heavy headline scales down hard into frame and lands with a 2–3 frame shake.
- Phrase Builds From the Center — Remocn · HeyGen: Words arrive one at a time and push the growing phrase so it always sits centered.
- Specular Sweep Title — HeyGen: A static title receives one clean light sweep through its glyphs, then rests.
- Decode-In Tech Title — HeyGen: Random glyphs churn and lock into the real word from left to right.
- Footage Inside the Letters — Magic UI: Huge block letters act as windows onto playing product footage or a demo clip.
- Tracking-In Feature Label — HeyGen: Wide-spaced letters draw together into a tight, crisp label as the blur clears.
Guides (3)
- Video editing skills for Claude Code and AI agents — varg: 206 named edits with recipes for FFmpeg, HyperFrames, Remotion and CapCut: cuts, transitions, titles, UI, numbers.
- Title & Kinetic Typography Direction — Calesthio: Typography direction for video: text jobs, hierarchy, reveal-hold-exit timing, safe zones, contrast, font licensing.
- Short Video Script — rascal6666, beta: Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels