Neon Silhouette System
A dark talking head that blooms into an emerald stage, where you come back as a glowing neon outline.
What Neon Silhouette System does to your footage
Your footage is graded almost to black, so white captions and teal graphics sit straight on the picture with no box behind them. Every so often a white bloom flashes across the cut and the frame becomes a dark green stage. On that stage, you return as a glowing teal silhouette of your own body. Around you sit glassy icon tiles, sometimes in a ring that turns slowly with the icons held upright.
- A white bloom straddles every change between your footage and the stage.
- You appear as a glowing teal outline traced from your own shot.
- Glassy icon tiles spring in with a small overshoot.
- A ring of four tiles orbits at a steady speed.
- Placement law on the stage: shapes on the dark side, type on the bright side.
- Nothing animates out. Every beat ends mid-move on the cut.
A real cut in this style
This clip was edited by Clypmint in the Neon Silhouette System style. It is not a mockup.
What footage suits Neon Silhouette System
- A product or a system explainer.
- Tech and software content that needs icons.
- A wide take between 15 seconds and 4 minutes.
What Neon Silhouette System will not do
Wide only. The silhouette needs a shot where you are clearly separated from the background.
How to edit a video in the Neon Silhouette System style
- Upload your footage. Drop in the recording you already made. Clypmint transcribes it and finds where the usable takes are.
- Pick Neon Silhouette System. Choose Neon Silhouette System from the style picker. Its whole editing grammar comes with it.
- Let it cut. Clypmint cuts the dead air, sets the captions the way Neon Silhouette System 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?
Neon Silhouette System is built for footage between 15 seconds and 4 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?
Neon Silhouette System is wide, for YouTube and a website. It has no version in another shape.
Other styles to look at
a16z Kinetic Caption
Every word lands one at a time in a staircase of hard type, so the claim carries the cut.
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.
Emerald Ledger 3D
A warm talking head that keeps cutting into dark emerald 3D scenes, plus a gold panel that opens and counts to the number you just said.
Forest Print Editorial
A green poster page with you cut out of your own footage, standing in front of a giant lowercase word.