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Design: Theme & Animation Style

With cofenster you can make sure all your videos are on brand.

Sascha Hinte avatar
Written by Sascha Hinte
Updated over 10 months ago

Within your video project, you can use themes and animation styles to define the design of your video.

Template

In the Design tab inside your video project you will find the Template section. There you can find all the templates available to you.

  1. Click Change Style to select a suitable template for your video.

  2. Confirm your selection with Save after you have chosen a template.

  3. A preview of the template is displayed when you move the mouse over the thumbnail.

Manage themes

You can create the selection of all themes in the menu bar on the left under Design for the entire account. A theme is a design template and contains a logo, primary and secondary color as well as intro and outro for the vertical and horizontal format.

  1. In your account, open the Branding section in the menu on the left.

  2. Click Create Theme to create a new theme for your account.

  3. Existing themes can be viewed and changed at any time. To do so, click Edit in the respective theme.

  4. Themes can also be copied and deleted.

  5. For each theme a name must be assigned, both colors must be set and a logo and intros and outros in both formats can be uploaded.

  6. Click Save after you have filled in all the fields and uploaded your files.

  7. Your new theme is now available to the entire account and can be selected in any video project.

Using theme in video project

In the Design step you will find the Theme section on the left.

  1. Click Change Theme to select a suitable template for your video.

  2. Confirm your selection with Save after you have chosen a theme.

  3. If you make changes to the theme in the video project, they will not be saved for the entire account.

    • Decide if you want the logo to appear in the video by setting the toggle to On/Off. You can also upload a new logo for the open project.

    • The selected primary and secondary colors change the appearance of the template.

    • You can also set whether the intro and/or the outro should complete your video with the On/Off toggle.

  4. You can see how the design looks in the video after rendering. You can make changes to your video at any time by going back into the video project and re-rendering your video.

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