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# Emphasis animations

## Make a move! Choose an ‘on canvas’ animation for your element.

Each image or text element that you add to the canvas has three [animation stages](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/animation-stages?hsLang=en) that you can customize. These will occur in the following order:

- **Entrance animation** - set how your element will animate as it's added to the canvas
- **Emphasis animation** - ​set how your element will animate once it's on the canvas
- **Exit animation** - ​set how your element will animate as it leaves the canvas

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

This article covers all the options you have for the **Emphasis animation** stage.  For details about the other stages see our [Entrance animations](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/entrance-animations?hsLang=en) and [Exit animations](https://help.videoscribe.co/knowledge/exit-animations?hsLang=en) articles.

### Emphasis animation types

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

![EmphasisAnimationZoomIn2 OP](https://help.videoscribe.co/hs-fs/hubfs/EmphasisAnimationZoomIn2%20OP.gif?width=561&height=316&name=EmphasisAnimationZoomIn2%20OP.gif)

- Click the ‘**Type**’ icon to select the animation type: 
    - ** ![none](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/none.svg)  None** - there is no emphasis animation
    - **![pulse](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/pulse.svg)  Pulse** - your element expands and contracts in a pulsing motion
    - **![ICONS - Spin](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/ICONS%20-%20Spin.svg)  Spin** - your element rotates around the centre of the image, you can select clockwise or anticlockwise motion
    - **![ICONS - Shake](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/ICONS%20-%20Shake.svg)  Shake** - your element rapidly moves back and forth in your chosen direction
    - **![ICONS - Bounce In-1](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/ICONS%20-%20Bounce%20In-1.svg)  Bounce** - your element bounces up and down

### Emphasis animation options

Depending on the animation type you select, further animation options will appear.

#### Animation direction

While using the '**Spin**' ![ICONS - Spin](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/ICONS%20-%20Spin.svg) and '**Shake**' ![ICONS - Shake](https://help.videoscribe.co/hubfs/Customer%20Success/ICONS%20-%20Shake.svg) animations, you have the option to choose a direction for the movement animation.

- Click the ‘**Direction**’ icon to select a preferred direction

#### Animation duration and loops

- Click the '**Duration**' arrows to increase or decrease the duration of the animation
- Click the '**Loops**' arrows to increase or decrease the number of times the animation repeats

**Top tip:** If you have no **Emphasis** animation, you can still set the duration to add a pause between the **Entrance** and **Exit** animations.

### Pause before next animation

- Click the '**Pause before next animation**' arrows to increase or decrease the pause that will occur after the end of the element’s final animation and before the next element starts

**Top tip:** To discover exciting new ways to use Emphasis 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.

 

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