Motion - Jobbit

A motion video is built from scenes that play one after another on a timeline, with text and pictures inside them, layers that run across scenes, and sound underneath. The frame is at the top, the timeline below. Changes save on their own.

The Motion editor with the frame, the playback buttons and the timeline, light theme

The Motion editor with the frame, the playback buttons and the timeline, dark theme

Part	What is in it
Top left	+ opens your files, the layers button opens Layers
Frame	The video at the playhead. Click anything in it to select it
Playback	The time, Undo and Redo, Play (Space), zoom of the timeline (− and +) and Full screen
Timeline	A ruler in seconds, the playhead, and a track for each layer: text on top, the scenes with their frames, sound with its waveform

Drag the playhead or click the ruler to move through the video.

The timeline zoomed in with marks every half second, light theme

The timeline zoomed in with marks every half second, dark theme

The video frame full screen, light theme

Scenes

Click a scene on the timeline to select it. Its properties open on the right, and a bar of clip actions appears at the top left: Split, Duplicate and Delete. Scenes cannot be duplicated, and only pictures, videos and sounds can be split. On the timeline, drag a clip to move it, or drag its start or end to make it shorter or longer.

A selected scene with Timing, Animation and Appearance, light theme

A selected scene with Timing, Animation and Appearance, dark theme

Section	What you set
Timing	Start and Length in seconds, and the Track it is on
Animation	How it comes In and goes Out: Fade, Rise, Drop, Slide left, Slide right, Pop, Zoom, Focus or Wipe. Throughout: a slow zoom in or out while it is on screen
Appearance	Fill, Opacity and Radius

Delete at the bottom of the properties removes the selected element.

Text

Click text in the frame to select it. Text has more ways to come in: Word by word, Letter by letter, Typewriter and Marker, with In length for how long that takes.

Selected text in the frame with its Animation properties, dark theme

Section	What you set
Text	The words, Font (or one of the video’s fonts), Size, Weight from 300 to 900, Colour, Align, Line height and Letter spacing
Position and size	X, Y, W and H in the frame
Appearance	Fill, Opacity and Radius

The Text section with font, size, weight, colour and align, light theme

The Text section with font, size, weight, colour and align, dark theme

Position and size, Appearance and Delete element, light theme

Position and size, Appearance and Delete element, dark theme

Double-click text in the frame to type in it right there.

The headline in text editing mode in the frame, light theme

The headline in text editing mode in the frame, dark theme

Pictures

A picture has the same timing, animation, position and appearance, and Fit: Cover fills its box and crops, Contain shows all of it.

A selected picture with its properties, light theme

A selected picture with its properties, dark theme

Sound

Click the sound track to select it. Volume, Fade in and Fade out set how it plays; File is the recording it plays.

Selected sound with Volume, Fade in, Fade out and File, dark theme

Split cuts the selected picture, video or sound in two at the playhead. Undo puts it back.

The sound track cut in two at the playhead, light theme

The sound track cut in two at the playhead, dark theme

Layers and the video

Layers lists everything in the video as a tree: each scene with what is inside it, the layers on top and the sound. Click a line to select it. A faded line is not on screen at the playhead.

The Layers panel with scenes and their elements, light theme

The Layers panel with scenes and their elements, dark theme

Layers with the headline selected and its properties open, light theme

Layers with the headline selected and its properties open, dark theme

Video, at the top of Layers, opens the settings of the whole video: its Length, Size and Frame rate, and its Tokens, the named colours and fonts the video uses. Change a token and everything that uses it changes. Colours in this video lists every colour in use, to pick from.

The Video settings with Length, Size, Frame rate and Tokens, light theme

The Video settings with Length, Size, Frame rate and Tokens, dark theme

The swatches of the colours in the video, light theme

The swatches of the colours in the video, dark theme

Pictures and sounds to add

+ opens the files you can put in the video, in two tabs:

This video: the files already in it. Upload adds files from your device, or drop them on the panel. A file still on the timeline cannot be deleted: take it out of the timeline or Layers first.
My files: the pictures and sounds in your Library, with search and All, Pictures, Sounds.

The play button on a sound lets you listen to it first. + on a file adds it at the playhead.

This video tab with Upload, a picture and a sound, light theme

This video tab with Upload, a picture and a sound, dark theme

My files tab with three pictures and a sound, light theme

My files tab with three pictures and a sound, dark theme

The panel saying Drop the files to add them to this video, light theme

The panel saying Drop the files to add them to this video, dark theme

The message that a file is in the video, light theme

The message that a file is in the video, dark theme

Export

Download at the top of the Jobbit window opens Export.

The Export window with Format, Quality, Size and Range, dark theme

Setting	Choices
Format	MP4, WebM, GIF, or Poster: one still picture
Quality	Draft, Standard, High
Size	The video’s full size, or half of it
Range	Whole video, the selected scene, or Custom from and to a second

Before it exports, Jobbit checks the video and says if something is wrong. The line at the bottom sums up what you will get.

Export with Range set to Custom, From and To, light theme

Export with Range set to Custom, From and To, dark theme

Poster saves the frame at the playhead as a picture.

Export with Poster and the frame at the playhead, light theme

Export with Poster and the frame at the playhead, dark theme

Export renders the video. The window shows how far it has got, and Cancel stops it.

Exporting with a progress bar at 42%, light theme

Exporting with a progress bar at 42%, dark theme

When it is done, Download saves the file, and Export another goes back to the settings.

Export ready with the file, Export another and Download, light theme

Export ready with the file, Export another and Download, dark theme

If rendering fails, Try again starts it over.

Export failed with Try again, light theme

Export failed with Try again, dark theme

The player

Someone who can only view the video, and anyone while the agent is working on it, sees a player: play, the time, the playhead, sound on or off (M) and volume.