Make an animated tweet
A tweet is a still image, so making it a video means deciding what moves. Six presets cover what actually reads well on a small screen: fade, slide up, zoom, a continuous Ken Burns drift, a pop with a slight overshoot, and a typewriter that types the text out.
Each preset animates in and then holds the finished card, which matters more than it sounds: the final frame is the thumbnail, the screenshot and what a looping viewer sees longest. Motion that never settles reads as unfinished.
Questions
- Which animation should I use?
- Slide up or fade for a straightforward post, typewriter when the words are the point, and Ken Burns when you want continuous movement to hold attention.
- How does the typewriter effect work?
- The card is re-rendered at a series of reveal points and the frames step through them on word boundaries, so text never splits mid-word or reflows visibly.
- Can I turn motion off completely?
- Yes. The Still preset holds one frame, which is useful when you need a video file of a static card for a platform that will not accept an image.