Accents
A reel's colours are accents, not free-form paint. Five of them, and the two the brand is built on — violet and green — are on every plan, because a comparison needs a pair to be a comparison.
Set an accent on a beat and every piece that beat shows takes it. That is what makes “option A” and “option B” read as two sides rather than two screens: one setting, one beat, every piece on it.
| Where | What it colours |
|---|---|
| On a beat | Everything the beat shows, unless a piece says otherwise. |
| On a piece | That piece, on every beat that shows it. |
| An exact colour Plus | Any colour you name, on a piece — for a brand that is not one of the five. |
The backdrop
The ground the whole reel sits on. There is a shelf of ready-made ones on every plan; Plus adds hand-picked colours, the shape the gradient runs in — straight, from the middle, or round — and a grain over the top.
The shape of a piece
On Plus, a circle need not be a circle: rounded, square, diamond, hexagon, or just the picture with no plate behind it. Plates get a corner radius, a fade, a lift and a turn.
Each of these degrades to the plain version on Free — a square-cornered plate, a solid curve, a circle — so a reel drawn on Plus never becomes unreadable if the plan lapses. It becomes plainer.
The frame
Every reel is 720 × 1280 — vertical, 9:16. On Plus you can cut the same reel to a square or a landscape frame instead.
Changing the frame
- What changes
- The stage's proportions, and where every piece falls inside it. Nothing is deleted, but a layout composed for a tall frame will need moving in a wide one.
- Who sees it
- Anyone who watches it after your next save.
- When to do it
- You know where the reel is going and it is not a phone feed.
- How to undo it
- Set it back. ⌘Z restores the frame; pieces you moved afterwards are separate steps in History.