Crimson Card Explainer
A warm talking head, white captions with one crimson italic line in four, and numbered cards that flash in behind your hands.
What Crimson Card Explainer does to your footage
This is the look people mean when they say a video "looks like After Effects". Your take is graded warm and stays locked. Captions run the whole way through. About one line in four is set in a crimson italic that writes itself out left to right. Every five to ten seconds the edit drops into a dark card beat: a numbered grid, a glow column, a list, a pipeline that builds while you talk.
- White captions carry every word. One line in four turns crimson and italic.
- A numbered side card flashes in and holds the right side of frame.
- The card sits behind you, so your hands draw over the top of it.
- Dark graphic beats run at 12 frames a second, which is what gives the stepped After Effects feel.
- Nothing animates out. Every beat ends mid-move on a hard cut.
- No music and no sound effects. Your voice carries it.
A real cut in this style
This clip was edited by Clypmint in the Crimson Card Explainer style. It is not a mockup.
What footage suits Crimson Card Explainer
- An explainer where you count off steps or reasons.
- A wide talking head recorded in one take.
- A video that has to look expensive without a motion designer.
What Crimson Card Explainer will not do
Wide only, and it wants at least 40 seconds of footage to fit its card beats in.
How to edit a video in the Crimson Card Explainer style
- Upload your footage. Drop in the recording you already made. Clypmint transcribes it and finds where the usable takes are.
- Pick Crimson Card Explainer. Choose Crimson Card Explainer from the style picker. Its whole editing grammar comes with it.
- Let it cut. Clypmint cuts the dead air, sets the captions the way Crimson Card Explainer sets them, and places that style's graphics on the beats where they belong.
- Change it in a sentence. Tell the Director what to change. It edits the timeline you already have rather than starting over.
- Export it. Download the finished file. On a paid plan there is no mark on it.
How long should my footage be?
Crimson Card Explainer is built for footage between 40 seconds and 3 minutes. Shorter than that and the style has no room to put its devices anywhere. Longer than that and it runs out of vocabulary before your recording ends. Your plan also sets the longest single file you can upload, and that limit is listed on the pricing page.
What shape of video does it make?
Crimson Card Explainer is wide, for YouTube and a website. It has no version in another shape.
Other styles to look at
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Forest Print Editorial
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Hotel Warm Callout
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