The Motion Graphics Template Library: 57 editable templates you fill in like a form
PandaStudio now ships 57 motion graphics templates where everything you would want to change is an editable field: the text of a handwritten title, the two colors of a gradient background, the photo inside a sketched frame, the numbers behind an animated chart. Pick a template, fill in the fields, and it renders on your own machine — no keyframes, no After Effects, no cloud render fee. And because every template exposes its fields as a machine-readable schema, an AI assistant can fill them in for you from one sentence.
This release also rebuilt the library itself. We audited every block, removed the demos that could not actually be applied to your footage, and promoted anything that was really "a graphic with your content in it" into a proper editable template. Here is what the library covers now, and how the editing model works.
What's in the library
- Titles & kinetic type. Handwritten Title, Chromatic Fringe Title, Text Cursor Reveal, Morph Text, Background Emphasis Word, Word-Sweep Highlight, Text Along a Path, Speech Bubble.
- Data & numbers. Bar + Line Chart, Line Graph, Count-Up Stat Card, Money Counter, Specs Checklist, Hand-Drawn Flowchart.
- Social & creator. Instagram Follow, TikTok Follow, Comment Cards, YouTube Lower Third, 12+ podcast lower thirds, Logo Intro Sequence.
- Photo & media. Sketched Frame (photo upload), Vertical Media Filler, Image Showcase.
- Utility. Camcorder HUD, Word Wall Transition, Gradient Background, Grain Overlay.
Overlay templates render with real alpha, so a lower third or follow card composites cleanly over your footage. Scene templates (charts, the money counter, morph text) render as their own shot. Both 16:9 and 9:16 are covered — the follow cards, for example, are built vertical for Shorts and Reels.
Slots: text, colors, images, and real data
- Text fields for anything written: a title, a caption under a photo frame, the username on a follow card, each step of a hand-drawn flowchart (type as many steps as you need — the chart lays itself out).
- Color fields for accents, and they default to your workspace brand kit, so a template lands on-brand without touching anything.
- Image uploads where a template holds media: drop a photo into the Sketched Frame's hand-drawn border, or a portrait shot into the Vertical Media Filler.
- Data fields where the animation IS the data: the Bar + Line Chart takes axis labels and two numeric series, the Line Graph takes named series like "Views: 20, 45, 80, 120", and the Money Counter ticks up to any amount in any currency symbol.
Built for AI agents, not just the panel
Every template publishes its slot schema through PandaStudio's CLI and MCP surface. An agent calls motion.list to see what exists and what each template accepts, then motion.generate to render it with real values. That means you can tell ChatGPT or Claude "add a subscriber count-up that goes to 128K and a handwritten title that says shine like the star you are" and both graphics land on your timeline, filled in and on-brand.
This is the same agent surface that edits your transcript, adds captions, and exports — the templates are just more verbs in its vocabulary. The official Skill teaches any MCP-capable assistant the whole flow.
Fewer, better: what we removed
A template library is only useful if everything in it does something. So alongside the new templates, we cut aggressively: shader-transition demos that could not actually blend your clips, caption mockups that could not sync to your words, social cards nobody used, and one-off eye candy. Two of those categories came back as something better — caption styles are now real, transcript-driven animated captions (each word animates as it is spoken, in preview and export alike), and the scribble transition became a genuine one-click transition that masks a cut.
What remains in the browsable Motion Library are genuine effects — film grain, vignette, freeze-frame dressing, hand-drawn arrows and callouts — while everything with your content in it lives in Templates, editable.
Frequently asked
What is a slot-based motion graphics template?
A finished animation with named editable fields — text, colors, an image upload, or a data series. You fill in the fields like a form and the template renders with your content, keeping the professional animation intact.
Can the templates use my own data, like a chart?
Yes. The chart templates take real data: axis labels plus numeric series for the Bar + Line Chart, named series for the Line Graph, any target amount and currency for the Money Counter, and any number of steps for the Hand-Drawn Flowchart.
Can an AI agent fill in and render these templates?
Yes. motion.list returns each template's slot schema and motion.generate renders it — ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP agent can do the whole loop from one instruction.
Do the templates render in the cloud?
No. Everything renders on your own machine with the bundled motion engine — no upload, no render farm, no per-render fee.
Try the template library on your next video
Download PandaStudio free, open Graphics → Templates, and fill in your first title. Or connect your AI assistant and just describe the graphic you want.