Ticker Crawl

Everything below can be changed without touching the animation. Hand the list to an agent, or edit the values at the bottom of the component file.

• Flag

  flag · string

  The word in the solid colour block at the head of the rail. One word, set in caps whatever you type — BREAKING, LIVE, UPDATE, the name of your show. Empty removes the block and the headlines run the full width.

  now: BREAKING

• Items *

  items · array

  The headlines, in order, running right to left. Keep each under about 55 characters: that is what guarantees a whole one is legible on screen at any moment, including in the still that becomes your thumbnail.

  now: 4 items

• Edge

  edge · "bottom" | "top"

  Which edge the rail is welded to. Bottom is the news convention and leaves the upper frame to the presenter; top is for when your own subtitles already own the floor.

  now: bottom

• Pace

  pace · number

  Crawl speed. 1 is broadcast pace — a headline of normal length is fully on screen for about five seconds. Below 0.6 it reads as stalled; above 1.6 nobody finishes a sentence.

  now: 1

• Inset

  inset · number

  Gap between the rail and the frame edge, as a fraction of the frame height. 0 welds it flush the way broadcast does; the default lifts it clear of the player's own scrubber and timestamp.

  now: 0.05

• Scale

  scale · number

  Height of the rail and the type on it. Raise it for a 9:16 cut, where a rail sized for a 16:9 frame reads as a hairline.

  now: 1

• Ground

  ground · boolean

  Paint the frame behind the rail. Off by default — this is an overlay, so it renders with an alpha channel and drops straight onto your own footage. On, it gets a newsprint field to stand up against on its own.

  now: true

• Brand

  brand · string

  Brand token id — one of the keys of BRANDS.

  now: press