Mac Desktop

Creative structure

The entire film is a Mac desktop: wallpaper, a menu bar with a chapter route map, the Dock, desktop file icons and the presenter in a video-call style camera window. Content appears through app windows, dark flip boards, notifications, cursor clicks and train-station metaphors, with full-screen flip transitions between chapters and bilingual word-by-word captions.

Demo specifications

1440 × 1080 · 4:3 · 60fps · 230.02s · −15 LUFS

Chinese narration · Chinese and English subtitles

Demo notes

The demo is the author's original film; the template is distilled from it, so you can swap in your own talking-head video, subtitles and music to produce the same style. The template contains 55 shot types.

Shot library

• talk: Presenter in a camera window
• title: Opening flip-board headline
• chatPlay: Open a video in chat (insert)
• contact: Contacts card
• calendar: Calendar lights up day by day
• terminal: Scrolling terminal log, day and night flash
• invoice: Invoice PDF with stamp
• notify: Notification banners (overlay)
• counter: Flip-digit counter
• comments: Screenshot-card waterfall
• thanks: Thank-you flip board, floating hearts
• replay: Player rewind and compare flip-board
• stillBoard: Full-screen letter-by-letter flip board
• sign: Station sign slams in
• phonePlay: Phone mirror plays a video (insert)
• ticketInfo: Ticket-style info with price flip and stamp
• profileGrid: Phone profile grid scroll
• platform: Platform monitor: same starting line, then waiting
• spotlight: Spotlight search typing (overlay)
• halfFlip: Half-flipped giant tile (overlay)
• agents: Several agent windows cooperating
• chatShot: Chat screenshot with highlights
• bigWords: Big flip-board keywords with ticks
• rating: Rating flip and ability bar
• shock: Giant-word impact
• express: Express train with passengers
• timetable: Question rain and three-row timetable
• smash: Rules crack, rice bowl shatters (overlay)
• bigTrain: Giant locomotive crosses the desktop
• facts: Fact cards slide in
• wakeUp: Wake-up call, alert, trend chart
• identity: "You are..." identity flip
• opposite: Opposite platform, rebuttals and a cross
• seats: Hundred-seat chart: top N%
• sequence: Flip board changes phrase after phrase
• overtake: New train overtakes the old (overlay)
• fastClock: Fast-forward clock (overlay)
• gate: Train stops, gate closes (overlay)
• depart: Train departs with the presenter window (insert)
• wallet: Ticket card in a wallet
• wordFlip: Big flip tiles swap words
• transfer: Transfer map where lines meet
• ranking: Ranking flip: two swap places
• files: File icons fan out
• milestone: Milestone counter and avatar wall
• bloggers: Example-people card wall (insert)
• station: Station sign, typing, stamped prompt
• folderCount: Finder folders appear, Nth one
• showcase: Feature tour (insert)
• download: File flies into the Dock (overlay)
• correction: "Wrong!" self-correction (overlay)
• equal: Two cards joined by an equals sign (overlay)
• trainPass: Train passes along the bottom (overlay)
• bye: Cursor closes the camera window (overlay)
• ticket: End ticket with link, steps and screenshot (insert)