# Headlines & callouts: agent skills for on-screen titles, lower thirds and callouts

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Words over footage: headlines, key phrases, lower thirds, highlights and callouts that point at the thing that matters. 17 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## Skills (17)

### Effects (14)

- [Kicker Over Rising Headline](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kicker-headline-rise.md) — HeyGen: A small mono kicker fades in, then the headline rises word by word from a soft blur.
- [Rotating Benefit Word](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/rotating-benefit-word.md) — Aceternity UI: A fixed phrase holds while one word in it cycles through benefits, uses or audiences.
- [Masked Line Reveal](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/masked-line-reveal.md) — Daniel Petho: Each line slides up out of an invisible slot, so the type looks cut from the frame.
- [Marker on the Key Phrase](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/marker-highlight-phrase.md) — HeyGen: A marker band draws behind the one phrase that matters while the rest of the line stays calm.
- [Strike Old, Write New](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/strike-and-replace.md) — HeyGen: A line strikes through the old way, then the new word takes its place.
- [Clean Lower Third](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/clean-lower-third.md) — HeyGen: Name and role slide in at the lower left on a quiet bar, hold 3–5 s, then wipe out.
- [Hand-Drawn Callout Arrow](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hand-drawn-callout-arrow.md) — HeyGen: A wobbly arrow draws itself from a short label to the exact button or number on screen.
- [Dim Everything But the Target](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dim-around-spotlight.md) — HeyGen: The frame darkens except a soft ellipse around the element being talked about.
- [Impact Headline Slam](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/impact-headline-slam.md) — HeyGen: A heavy headline scales down hard into frame and lands with a 2–3 frame shake.
- [Phrase Builds From the Center](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/center-build-phrase.md) — Remocn · HeyGen: Words arrive one at a time and push the growing phrase so it always sits centered.
- [Specular Sweep Title](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/specular-sweep-title.md) — HeyGen: A static title receives one clean light sweep through its glyphs, then rests.
- [Decode-In Tech Title](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/decode-in-tech-title.md) — HeyGen: Random glyphs churn and lock into the real word from left to right.
- [Footage Inside the Letters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/footage-inside-letters.md) — Magic UI: Huge block letters act as windows onto playing product footage or a demo clip.
- [Tracking-In Feature Label](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/tracking-in-label.md) — HeyGen: Wide-spaced letters draw together into a tight, crisp label as the blur clears.

### Guides (3)

- [Video editing skills for Claude Code and AI agents](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-video-edit-library.md) — varg: 206 named edits with recipes for FFmpeg, HyperFrames, Remotion and CapCut: cuts, transitions, titles, UI, numbers.
- [Title & Kinetic Typography Direction](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/calesthio-title-kinetic-typography.md) — Calesthio: Typography direction for video: text jobs, hierarchy, reveal-hold-exit timing, safe zones, contrast, font licensing.
- [Short Video Script](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-video-script.md) — rascal6666, beta: Short-video scripts, titles and cover ideas for Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili and WeChat Channels