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Split-Flap Board

Solari-style departure board: every cell walks its drum forward through the intervening characters of a fixed alphabet until it lands on its target, so the text resolves as a mechanical cascade instead of a fade.

Add it to your video

It runs for 3.5 seconds at 1920×1080. Paste this into your composition:
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Move it in time with data-start. Put it on a different timeline row with data-track-index. See data attributes for the rest.

Variables

Every one of these has a default, so the piece works untouched. Set the ones you want to change on the element:Set them with data-variable-values on the element that mounts it. These are the defaults, so this behaves exactly like the preview above until you change one:
Tagged text kinetic mechanical split-flap solari departure-board reveal.

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