A template becoming a real slide

The literal reading of generation. Placeholders evaporate upward, last character first, blocks reflow as they change shape, and the real copy is typed behind a green caret. On the cover the picture resolves under a scan line travelling top to bottom. On The Opportunity there are six runs of text rather than two, so several carets are alive at once, which reads as the model working across the whole slide instead of down it.

• Character dissolve out: blur to 7px, lift 14px, reverse stagger
• Length follows the slide: more fields, longer cut
• Each block reflows on its own turn, not all at once
• Cover only: the scan line takes the mosaic grid with it

One band of light crosses the slide on the background gradient's own diagonal, 140 degrees. Behind the band everything is already rewritten, ahead of it everything is still template, so the whole slide changes as a single gesture. It is the only treatment that never looks at what is underneath it, which is why it costs the same seven seconds on both slides while the others stretch to fit. On The Opportunity the sweep also swaps the strapline for the green rule as it passes.

• Two full slide states, cross-masked on a moving gradient
• The order falls out of the geometry, not out of a schedule
• Same length whatever the slide holds
• A bloomed core in the band, screen-blended

Word by word. Placeholder words shrink and blur away in sequence, real words spring up from 26px below with a green flash on arrival. On the cover the picture assembles out of its own mosaic in 368 tiles, ordered from the centre outward with a little noise. The busiest of the five, and the one that most looks like a thing being built. On a text-only slide it loses the tiles, which takes a lot of its character with them.

• Exit 12 frames, entrance 22: leaving is always faster
• Words arrive at 4-frame intervals, never all at once
• Tiles sit on the template's own 16 x 23 grid, so nothing shifts
• Each tile flashes brand green for three frames as it lands

Treatment 1's mechanics with nothing running in parallel. Each part finishes before the next is touched, and the picture is last. Nothing marks the current component: the caret, the rule's single pulse and the scan line do that on their own, and whatever is not its turn yet sits at its template opacity. Clearest about what the model is doing and in what order, and it pays for that in length. The Opportunity makes the cost obvious: nine parts in a row is sixteen seconds.

• Only one caret is ever alive, and it moves down the slide
• Unchanged parts still take a turn, so they do not read as missed
• The rule gets its own beat: 6% wider and a single glow
• Scales badly with field count, which is the finding

Treatment 1's timing with the writing lit. Each character lands hot, at 170% brightness under a white and green bloom, and cools over the next seven as the caret moves on. A blurred copy of what has been written so far sits behind the line, so the glow is real bloom rather than a per-glyph shadow. When a line finishes, one shine crosses it left to right, clipped to the glyphs. The caret carries a wider halo throughout. Same length as treatment 1, and the version that reads most clearly as generation rather than as a transition.

• Heat runs seven characters behind the caret, then cools
• A blurred understudy at 55% carries the bloom
• Shine sweeps each line once, clipped to the glyphs
• Costs nothing in length over treatment 1

One file for sharing, no labels. Treatment by treatment, cover then The Opportunity.