Free tools list
Scrolling strip across the top over a big rising headline. Stages: “Five free design tools you'll wish you found sooner.” The video is a list and you want viewers to know how long the payoff takes. Fits lines like “Four free budgeting apps you'll wish you found sooner.”.
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Open my video with this hook: "Free tools list" from the 24fps video editor library.
Preset JSON: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/hooks/free-tools-list/preset.json (pass its "preset" to the engine).
Engine (MIT, no dependencies, ES module): https://24fps.dev/editor/engine.js. Download the engine next to your page (curl -O) rather than importing cross-origin, then import { mount } from "./engine.js" in a <script type="module"> served over http.
Wiring: root = a position:relative box at the video's size. media = { main }: main is a wrapper holding my video, filling the root. Then const fx = mount(root, { kind: "text", preset, media }) and call fx.render(seconds) every frame. The preset runs 4s from t = 0; offset t to place it later. It is seek-safe: drive it from the GSAP timeline in HyperFrames or call render(frame / fps) in Remotion. Before capturing frames, await (fx.ready ?? document.fonts.ready). Check it on my footage: if text is hidden behind the subject or doesn't read against my colours, nudge the layer positions or colours.
Replace the demo text with mine: set preset.layers[n].text (use \n for line breaks); if none given, write lines that fit my footage and tell me.
Hook formula: [Number] free [tools] you'll wish you found sooner.
Field reference: https://24fps.dev/video-editor/llms.txt. Keep sizes as fractions of the frame height so it works at any resolution. Credit: 24fps.dev/video-editor- Formula
- [Number] free [tools] you'll wish you found sooner.
- Example lines
- Five free design tools you'll wish you found sooner. · Four free budgeting apps you'll wish you found sooner. · Three free hiking apps you'll wish you found sooner. · Five free AI tools you'll wish you found sooner.
- Beats
- 0.0s Top strip 'free free free free free free' appears and scrolls. → 0.1s Headline '5 free design tools' rises in. → 0.7s Sub-line 'you'll wish you found sooner' fades in. → 1.4s Screen-recording flashes of each tool flicker behind the headline while the speaker reads at tempo.
- Technique
- Numbered list hook: Promise a counted, scannable payoff.
- Footage
- Man talking and gesturing, Pexels