YouTube End Screen Layout — effect skill for end cards & CTAs

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A 5–20 s outro with clean empty slots for YouTube's clickable video and subscribe elements.

What it does

Built on Rounded Media Grid by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Simple, calm backdrop; two 16:9 boxes and one circle reserved where YouTube places elements; a short spoken or written ask.

When: Long-form YouTube tutorials, demos and launch explainers (videos ≥ 25 s).

Watch out: Do not put busy motion or text where the elements will sit; up to four elements, and say out loud what to click.

Timing: End screen window 5–20 s (YouTube limit); 8–12 s works for most; stagger element appearance.

Also called: end screen, subscribe outro, next video card

In FFmpeg

# append a 12 s branded tail (same size/fps/codec)
printf "file main.mp4\nfile endscreen.mp4\n" > list.txt
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i list.txt -c copy out.mp4

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add mk-placeholder-grid
npx hyperframes add yt-lower-third

Layout 1920×1080: two video slots ≈ 615×345 and a 294 px circle; keep the last 20 s of the edit calm.

In Remotion

<Sequence from={durationInFrames - 15*fps}>
  <EndScreenBackdrop/>  {/* leave rects empty for YouTube elements */}
</Sequence>

In CapCut

Add the end-screen background for the last 10–15 s, Text for "Watch next", leave the slots empty; add elements later in YouTube Studio → Editor → End screen.

Ready-made components

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/14a46a0c68c0/take-youtube-end-screen.mp4 — The Rounded Media Grid component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add mk-placeholder-grid), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Rounded Media Grid, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/blocks/mk-placeholder-grid)

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