Episode title card maker

What the title card carries

Each title card has three lines of type and nothing else competing with them. The series name sits small at the top in the theme's secondary colour. The episode title takes the middle of the frame in heavy display type, wrapped to two lines on a widescreen frame or three on a vertical one. Underneath, the episode number appears in the accent colour so a viewer who lands on episode four knows there were three before it.

The card is rendered as a still image, then turned into a two-second clip with a silent audio track so it concatenates cleanly against the takes that follow. It is not an overlay on the first take; it is its own part of the episode, which means the first take can begin on action rather than waiting for text to fade.

If you have not typed a title for the episode, the card falls back to the episode number as its headline. In practice almost nobody leaves it that way, because the draft tool proposes a title the moment you ask it for an outline.

Eight themes, one series

Themes set the palette and a single flourish. Marquee runs warm bulbs along the top and bottom of a black card. Broadsheet puts double masthead rules on newsprint. Midnight Reel draws sprocket holes down both edges of a navy frame. Brass Plate engraves an inset panel with four screw heads. Call Sheet sits the type on faint production-office grid paper. Telecast opens with a strip of colour bars. Lobby Card frames the text in a thick rounded border. Ledger rules the card like an accounts book with a red margin line.

A series picks a theme once, and every episode inherits it. An episode can override that choice if a special instalment wants a different look, but the default is consistency: the card is part of what makes episode seven feel like it belongs with episode one.

The same theme renders identically in both aspects. Type sizes are scaled from the short side of the frame, so a Lobby Card title on a 1920 by 1080 episode and on a 1080 by 1920 episode read as the same design, not as a cropped version of each other.

How it fits the rest of the package

The title card is the first of three card kinds an episode gets. Chapter cards sit between takes and carry a short chapter title. The end card closes the episode with the series name, the episode number and a next-episode line. All three share the theme, so the episode opens, breathes and closes in the same visual language.

Cards are included in the packaging price. Stitching an episode costs two credits whether it has four takes or twelve, and the cards are rendered as part of that job. There is no separate charge for a title card, and no limit on how many times you re-package an episode after changing its title or theme.

When you re-package, the previous cut is retired so your library does not fill with near-identical episodes. The takes themselves are untouched; they remain in your library and can be reused in another episode.

Working in the studio

Start a series and choose widescreen or vertical. Add an episode, give it a title, and render your takes. The runtime meter at the top of the episode counts the two seconds the title card will add, along with the end card and any chapter cards, so the figure you see is the runtime of the finished file, not of the takes alone.

Preview the theme on the Cards page before committing. The previews are drawn in the browser from the same colours the renderer uses, so what you see is close to what the two-second card will look like at full resolution.