Animated slides
Build a video the way you would build a deck.
Most video editors ask you to think in a timeline: clips, tracks, keyframes, and a playhead that never quite lands where you want it. Visual Ideas asks you to think in slides instead. One slide is one frame of the finished video, and everything on it sits where you put it.
That single decision changes how a video gets made. You can see the whole scene at once, move a title two centimetres to the left without hunting for a keyframe, and duplicate a slide to make a second point with the same layout.
What a slide holds
A slide has a background and any number of blocks on top of it: text, pictures, video, shapes, an icon, a counter or a progress bar. Blocks are positioned as percentages of the frame, so the same layout works whether you are exporting portrait or landscape.
Every slide has its own duration, and the transition between two slides can be a fade, a slide, a wipe or a zoom. A title card might hold for two seconds; a scene with a screen video might run for fifteen. The video is the slides played in order, up to a 30-minute total.
- Duplicate a slide to keep a layout and change the words
- Reorder slides by dragging them in the list
- Set a duration per slide rather than trimming one long clip
- Start from one of the two complete sample videos, or from a blank project
Why slides suit short video
A reel or a Short is a sequence of ideas, not a film. Each idea has a few seconds to land, and most of them are a title plus a picture plus a line of text. Slides map onto that shape directly, which is why a video built this way stays readable at phone size.
It also makes editing cheap. Changing the wording of a claim is a text edit, not a re-record. Swapping a screenshot is one block, not a new scene.
From static to moving
A slide can be completely still and still work, but it rarely has to be. Give each block an entrance — a fade, a slide, a zoom, a pop, a wipe — and the frame assembles itself as the viewer watches. The animation belongs to the block, so two elements on the same slide can arrive at different times.
That is the part that makes a slide feel like a video rather than a slide deck. The timing page covers it in detail.
How to use it
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Create a project and choose portrait for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, or landscape for YouTube and LinkedIn.
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Add a slide, then add the blocks you need: a title, a picture, a shape behind the text.
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Drag the blocks into place. Positions are stored as percentages, so nothing drifts if you change the frame.
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Set the slide duration and give the blocks an entrance animation.
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Duplicate the slide for the next point, change the words, and keep building.
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