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# Animation stages

## Check out how to apply different animations to your elements on the canvas

**Top tip:** Watch our [Using animations in VideoScribe tutorial](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/tutorial-using-animations-in-videoscribe?hsLang=en)

There are three different stages of animation that can be applied to each of your elements. These will occur in the following order:

1. [Entrance animation](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/animation-stages#entrance-animation)
2. [Emphasis animation](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/animation-stages#emphasis-animation)
3. [Exit animation](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/animation-stages#exit-animation)

You can also add a pause before the next element starts.

**Top tip**: **Entrance** animations are used for most elements. **Emphasis** and **Exit** animations are optional and allow you to add more movement to your element

- Select the element you wish to animate on the canvas or timeline and then click on the ‘**Animation**’ tab in the right-hand panel to display the animation options

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### **Entrance animation**

Set how you want your elements to animate as they are added to the canvas. You can also set the duration for this animation.

For more details see our [Entrance animations](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/entrance-animations?hsLang=en) article.

**Top tip**: The default animate option is ‘**Hand draw**’ ![ICONS - Hand Draw (1)](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/ICONS%20-%20Hand%20Draw%20(1).svg) for entrance animations. 

### **Emphasis animation**

​Set how you want your elements to continue to animate once they are on the canvas. Emphasis animations are optional. You can also set the '**Duration**' for this animation and the number of '**Loops**' (the number of times it will repeat the animation).

For more details see our [Emphasis animations](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/emphasis-animations?hsLang=en) article.

### **Exit animation**

​Set how you want your elements to animate when they exit the canvas. Exit animations are optional. You can set the '**Duration**' for this animation.

For more details see our [Exit animations](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/exit-animations?hsLang=en) article.

**Top tip:** To discover exciting new ways to use Emphasis and Exit animations check out our [Using Emphasis and Exit Animations](https://blog.videoscribe.co/using-emphasis-and-exit-animations-in-videoscribe-a-guide-to-enhancing-your-videos?hsLang=en) blog post.

### **Pause before next animation**

You can also add a '**Pause before next element**'. This pause will always happen after all the current element’s animations end and before the next element's animation starts.

**Top tip:** Use ‘**Preview from current element**’ ![play from current-1](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/play%20from%20current-1.svg) to preview what your applied animations look like in action.

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