Pull Quote Beside the Speaker — effect skill for quotes & reviews

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While a customer talks on camera, their key sentence appears as large type in the empty side of the frame.

What it does

Built on Lower Third — Dark Card by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Speaker framed left or right third; the strongest line fades up per word on the open side, high contrast, no card needed.

When: Video testimonials and interviews, so the claim survives sound-off viewing.

Watch out: Do not cover the speaker's face or hands, and do not repeat every word they say — only the pull quote.

Timing: Start with the spoken words; per-word fade 0.2–0.3 s; hold to the end of the sentence + 0.5 s.

Also called: testimonial overlay, quote over interview, speaker quote

In FFmpeg

-vf "drawtext=text='Cut our onboarding in half':x=w*0.55:y=h*0.4:fontsize=72:fontcolor=white:alpha='min(1,max(0,(t-8.2)/0.3))':enable='between(t,8.2,12)'"

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add soft-blur-in

Time each word's tl.from to its transcript timestamp; keep the text inside the open half of the frame.

In Remotion

// npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/per-word-crossfade
const o = interpolate(frame,[w.start*fps, w.start*fps+6],[0,1],{extrapolateLeft:'clamp',extrapolateRight:'clamp'});

In CapCut

Captions → Auto captions, delete all but the pull-quote line, restyle it large on the open side; Animation In "Fade in by word".

Ready-made components

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Install

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/d2553303cbde/take-pull-quote-beside-speaker.mp4 — The Lower Third — Dark Card component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add lt-dark-card), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Lower Third — Dark Card, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/lt-dark-card)

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