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Add a pop-in text to input.mp4 Text: NEW FORMULA
Several videos, several effects, one ask
Put your clips in the folder, mention them with @, and ask for everything at once. Claude runs one tested script after another on each clip, then joins them.
Add a pop-in text to @clip1.mp4, put a sale badge on @clip2.mp4, give @clip3.mp4 a VHS look, then join all three with crossfades.
Settings you can change
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| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
TEXT | NEW FORMULA | The headline. |
START | 0.3 | Second the pop starts. |
POP | 0.35 | Seconds the pop takes. |
BOX | (255, 214, 0) | Box color. |
In other editors
From each editor’s own help pages, in our words. We haven’t run these ourselves.
Built in: Pop Up text animation · desktop
- Add text with the Text icon and style it in the Basic option.
- Select the text layer, open Animation and choose Pop Up.
- Use the timeline slider to set the animation length and rate.
- Alternative: keyframe scale 0%, then 120%, then settle at 100%.
Source: Pop Up Text in Premiere Pro: Animate & Style Engaging Text (CapCut), checked October 22, 2026.
Closest built-in: Pop · web and mobile
- Select the headline text box.
- Click Animate on the toolbar and open the Text tab.
- Hover to preview, then pick the Pop text animation.
Page says Pop makes each character bounce and move across the screen; no box, overshoot or settle mentioned.
Source: Text Animations: Free online text animation maker (Canva), checked October 22, 2026.
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Don’t want to install the skill? Paste this prompt into Claude Code and Claude writes the script itself.
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Add a pop-in headline to input.mp4: "NEW FORMULA" in black on a yellow (255, 214, 0) rounded box, centered 20% of the way down, growing from nothing at 0.3 seconds to full size by 0.65 seconds with a slight overshoot, then staying. Use Python with Pillow to draw it and ffmpeg to put it on the video (don't rely on ffmpeg's drawtext filter), keep the audio, and save it as output.mp4.Run it without Claude
This is the exact script we tested. Save it as pop-in-text.py and run:
python3 pop-in-text.py input.mp4 output.mp4Show the script
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Pop-in text: a headline on a yellow box springs out of nothing, overshoots a little and settles.
Usage: python3 pop-in-text.py input.mp4 output.mp4
Needs ffmpeg and Pillow (pip install pillow).
"""
import json
import math
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
TEXT = "NEW FORMULA"
START = 0.3 # second the pop starts
POP = 0.35 # seconds the pop takes
SIZE = 0.09 # text height as a share of the frame width
Y = 0.20 # where the box's center sits (0 = top, 1 = bottom)
BOX = (255, 214, 0) # box color
FONTS = ["/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial Bold.ttf", # macOS
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf", # Linux
"C:/Windows/Fonts/arialbd.ttf"] # Windows
FONT_FILE = next((f for f in FONTS if Path(f).exists()), None) or sys.exit("No bold font found: add one to FONTS")
def badge():
"""The headline on its box, drawn once at full size."""
font = ImageFont.truetype(FONT_FILE, round(w * SIZE))
pad = round(w * SIZE * 0.45)
x0, y0, x1, y1 = ImageDraw.Draw(Image.new("RGBA", (1, 1))).textbbox((0, 0), TEXT, font=font)
img = Image.new("RGBA", (x1 - x0 + 2 * pad, y1 - y0 + 2 * pad))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.rounded_rectangle([0, 0, img.width - 1, img.height - 1], radius=pad // 2, fill=BOX)
draw.text((pad - x0, pad - y0), TEXT, font=font, fill="black")
return img
def overlay(t):
img = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h))
scale = ease_out_back((t - START) / POP) if t >= START else 0
if scale > 0.02:
b = full.resize((max(1, round(full.width * scale)), max(1, round(full.height * scale))), Image.LANCZOS)
img.alpha_composite(b, (round(w / 2 - b.width / 2), round(h * Y - b.height / 2)))
return img
def ease_out_back(p):
"""0 -> 1 with a small overshoot past 1 before settling, which reads as a 'pop'."""
p = min(max(p, 0), 1)
return 1 + 2.70158 * (p - 1) ** 3 + 1.70158 * (p - 1) ** 2
def probe(path):
info = json.loads(subprocess.check_output(["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-select_streams", "v:0", "-show_entries",
"stream=width,height,r_frame_rate:format=duration", "-of", "json", path]))
s = info["streams"][0]
num, den = s["r_frame_rate"].split("/")
return s["width"], s["height"], s["r_frame_rate"], float(num) / float(den), float(info["format"]["duration"])
def render(src, out):
"""Draw overlay(t) on every frame of src and save to out, keeping the audio."""
ff = subprocess.Popen(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-v", "error", "-i", src,
"-f", "rawvideo", "-pix_fmt", "rgba", "-s", f"{w}x{h}", "-r", rate, "-i", "-",
"-filter_complex", "[0:v][1:v]overlay=shortest=1,format=yuv420p[v]",
"-map", "[v]", "-map", "0:a?", "-c:v", "libx264", "-crf", "18", "-c:a", "copy", out],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
for i in range(math.ceil(duration * fps)):
ff.stdin.write(overlay(i / fps).tobytes())
ff.stdin.close()
if ff.wait():
sys.exit("ffmpeg failed")
src, out = sys.argv[1:3]
w, h, rate, fps, duration = probe(src)
full = badge()
render(src, out)





