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Timeline

Dates and milestones go in, a fast story told one milestone at a time comes out.

Free to run16:9Any project

A 20–60 second story of how something got here: a company, a product, a person or a year. Each milestone gets its own beat with a big year or number, a headline of a few words and one simple picture, and a progress bar moves along as time passes. Good for origin stories, anniversaries, year-in-review posts and biographies.

By Moritz Kremb

Use this playbook

With FrameJam installed, paste this into your agent and replace the part in brackets with what the video is about and your files:

Make a video with the FrameJam playbook "Timeline" (id: timeline). Call get_playbook("timeline") and follow it. [Add more context here]

You bring

  • The milestones with their dates, or a source to pull them from (an about page, a CV, a changelog)
  • Optional: photos, logos or screenshots for some milestones
  • Optional: music you have the rights to, or a voice recording

You get

A 20–60 s video (16:9, or 9:16 on request) with music, ending on a closing card

What you need

  • Voice, timing and sound scripts (from the Explainer playbook)Included
  • Hyperframes (or your project's video tool), Python 3 and ffmpegFree
  • MusicOptionalFree tierYouTube Audio Library, ElevenLabs Music, Suno

Works in your existing project, with the tool it already uses.

What your agent does

  1. Pick 5–9 milestones and check every date against a source
  2. Write a big year or number and a short headline for each
  3. Draw one simple picture per milestone
  4. Time the beats to the music or the voice and animate them
  5. Review each version in FrameJam until it's right