Motion Graphics

StarZero Agents can design and animate graphics for your video from a plain description: lower-thirds, title cards, intros, animated charts, kinetic text and more. You describe what you want, the Motion Graphics Agent designs it, and the result arrives as a finished video clip that StarZero Agents places in your project for you.

No design tools or technical knowledge needed.

What You Can Make

• Lower-thirds and name plates — a speaker's name and title sliding in under them
• Title cards, intros, outros and end cards — full-screen openers, chapter cards and sign-offs
• Kinetic typography — animated quotes, pull-out phrases and text that moves with the story
• Animated charts and numbers — bar charts, counters, progress bars, tables and infographic moments
• Countdowns, stingers and bumpers — short punctuation between segments, including graphics timed to the beat of your music
• Graphics that follow your narration — a figure, label or diagram that appears as the narrator says it, with each moment landing on its line
• Graphic treatments of your footage — your library footage framed inside a design, animated split layouts, picture-in-picture with motion
• Full motion-graphics videos — a whole piece, or a remake of an existing video, built around your real footage with titles, animated text and designed elements

Asking for a Graphic

Describe what it should say, where it goes, and how it should feel:

"Add an animated lower-third when the CEO first speaks: 'Jane Doe, CEO of Acme', sliding in from the left."

"Open the video with a 4-second title card that says 'Quarterly Review' with 'Q3 2026' underneath, dark background."

"Show these five numbers as an animated bar chart, the bars growing in time with the music."

"Add a name plate for each guest the first time they appear."

Style details are optional. Mention your brand colours, a font, a mood, or attach a reference image or font file, and the design follows them. If you leave the style open, StarZero Agents picks one and tells you what it chose, so you can keep it or ask for another take.

Overlays and Full-Frame Graphics

Every graphic is one of two kinds, and StarZero Agents picks the right one for what you asked:

• Overlays sit on top of your footage: lower-thirds, badges, charts and titles over video. They have a transparent background and are made at the size of the element itself, so you can move, resize or retime them afterwards like any other overlay. They keep working when you change the project's aspect ratio.
• Full-frame graphics take over the whole screen: title cards, intros, end cards and the segments of a full motion-graphics video. They go on the main video track like a regular clip. Because they're designed for one frame shape, changing the aspect ratio later means asking for a new version.

Each graphic is its own short clip, from a few seconds up to about a minute. A recurring graphic, like a name plate for every guest, comes as one clip per item in a matching look, and each one stays attached to its shot: move or remove the shot and its graphic follows.

Sound

Overlays are silent, so add any sound for them to the project's audio, for example a sound effect on the moment a title lands. Full-frame graphics can carry their own sound effects. Music, voiceover and captions stay in your project as usual, outside the graphic.

Following Your Narration

A graphic can be timed to a generated voiceover, so each part of it arrives on the line it illustrates:

"Over the intro narration, show the three figures one by one, each appearing as it's mentioned."

"When the narrator says 'forty percent', have the number pop in beside the chart."

The graphic stays tied to that narration. If you later regenerate the voiceover, or move, trim or change the speed of the narration or the graphic, StarZero Agents works out the timing again and makes a new version of the graphic where its moments would otherwise drift off the words.

Previewing and Changing a Graphic

When a graphic is ready, it plays right in the chat, with a short line showing whether it's an overlay or full-frame and how long it runs. It also appears in the Artifacts panel under the Motion Graphics type.

To change one, just say so:

"Make the title blue and hold it one second longer."

"Move the lower-third to the top right and make it a little smaller."

Moving, resizing or retiming a placed graphic is instant. Changes to the design itself (text, colours, motion) produce a new version of that one graphic, leaving the others untouched.

Good to Know

• Graphics are made at up to 1080p and 30 frames per second.
• Designing and rendering a graphic takes a few minutes. At busy times a render may wait a little before it starts.
• Graphics count toward your credits under Motion Graphics in the session breakdown.
• For filmed-looking footage, use AI Video Generation. For still images, use AI Image Generation. Captions and the built-in text styles remain the quickest way to put plain text on screen.
• You can also bring in your own SVG files; see SVG Graphics.
• You can set standing preferences for the Motion Graphics Agent, such as brand colours or where lower-thirds sit, in Agent Settings.

Tips

• One graphic per moment. Asking for each element separately ("a lower-third for each guest", "a title card for each chapter") keeps later changes quick, since only the graphic you change is redone.
• Say where it goes. "Bottom-left, about half the width of the frame" gets you there in one try.
• Give timings in seconds. "Slides in over half a second, holds for four, slides out" beats "quick".
• Tie moments to the words. For a graphic over narration, say which line each part goes with ("the logo lands on 'introducing'") instead of counting seconds yourself.
• Ask for a full piece when you want one. If you want a single continuous motion-graphics video rather than separate elements, say so.