Title transition

Skill jperrello/C0BALT_CUT/.claude/skills/title-transition

Investigation on using Claude Code to automatically generate profitable YouTube videos.

Install

npx -y skills add jperrello/C0BALT_CUT --skill title-transition

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Animate the title as a COLD OPEN in the TOP banner over the live opening footage — no blocking center card — held until TITLE_SWAP (default 2.0s) so brand-overlays can hand off to the source citation in the same slot. Frame 1 stays content (a face mid-sentence) to protect the swipe-rate / "Stayed to Watch" signal. ONE animation for every short — the glitch style (RGB-split banner + scanline tear, style-matched zap/crackle SFX) — a PIL frame sequence anchored at TITLE_ANCHOR_FRAC (default 0.135).

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title-transition

Animated COLD-OPEN title for a short. The title animates in the TOP banner zone OVER the live opening footage — never a blocking center card — so frame 1 stays content (a face mid-sentence), protecting the swipe-rate / "Stayed to Watch" signal. Every short uses the SAME animation — the glitch style — so there is no per-span style pick; the title text comes from generate-title (third-person, ≤7 words, ALL CAPS). The title holds until TITLE_SWAP and clears via its own fade-out, then brand-overlays fades the source citation into the same top slot (see that skill).

Invoke

.claude/skills/title-transition/title-transition.sh <input> <title> <out> [ignored] [dur=auto]

input: video path (designed for finished 9:16 shorts)
title: title text — rendered UPPERCASE, auto-wrapped to ≤2 lines
style: slam | typewriter | glitch | bounce | cinematic (unknown values warn and fall back to slam)
dur: title lifetime in seconds; auto uses TITLE_SWAP (default 2.0) so the title has fully cleared the top banner by the citation hand-off
env TITLE_SWAP (default 2.0) — hold / hand-off point, shared with brand-overlays + source-credit
env TITLE_ANCHOR_FRAC (default 0.135) — vertical center of the title block as a fraction of height (the top-banner zone). 0.5 restores the centered look for demos.

Styles

style	genre	animation
`slam`	hype / beast-style	punches from 2.6x to place, squash settle
`typewriter`	true crime / story	Courier chars type in, blinking block cursor
`glitch`	tech / AI	RGB-split flicker + slice displacement in, mid-hold re-hit, glitch out
`bounce`	comedy	words pop in one-by-one, elastic overshoot + wobble
`cinematic`	documentary	Didot serif tracks in from wide letter-spacing, sapphire rule draws out

The channel default is a SINGLE animation — glitch (RGB-split banner + scanline tear) — in the brand language: Sapphire Glow #2E6BFF accent word, black-stroked type, Platinum white (brand/BRAND.md). It carries a synced glitch SFX bed: sfx.py synthesizes (stdlib wave only, no assets) the channel's original glitch sound — stereo-panned digital zap bursts (sample-and-hold noise) + crackle, on the fixed event schedule (three intro zaps + an intro crackle, a mid-burst zap, an outro zap + crackle) timed to styles.py's glitch keyframes (no events.json; driven by dur) and mixed UNDER the live audio. It is bit-identical to the pre-retirement synth (same Random(7) draw order). TITLE_SFX=0 disables it; TITLE_SFX_GAIN (default 1.0 = original level) tunes presence. This is the animation's own sound, not a card stinger — and there is NO full-frame bg treatment (the old flash/shake/dim shook the live shot).

How

The local ffmpeg has no drawtext/libass, so styles.py renders the animation as a full-frame transparent PNG sequence (30fps), anchored at TITLE_ANCHOR_FRAC. title-transition.sh overlays it directly on the live footage (no bg treatment) and folds the synthesized glitch SFX (sfx.py) into the audio — via the fused compositor's audio.mix on the plan-only path, or an amix in the direct-encode fallback; TITLE_SFX=0 falls back to a plain audio stream-copy.

Output

mp4, same dimensions and duration as the input. Idempotent: <out>.ttmeta records title|style|dur|top<anchor>; cache hit requires out newer than input and a matching signature, so changing title, style, or anchor re-renders.

Demo all five styles on any clip: bash demos/title-styles/demo.sh <clip>.