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Glass Countdown Bar
The "wait for it" beat. A frosted bar along the bottom drains one pass per number, then flashes to your payoff word at zero. Bottom-anchored so it never covers your face.
9:16 VERTICAL/8s · 30FPS/TRANSPARENT EXPORT/READS ON DARK
What it's for
The "wait for it" beat. A frosted bar along the bottom drains one pass per number, then flashes to your payoff word at zero. Bottom-anchored so it never covers your face.
Reach for it when
- Reveals, punchlines and reaction videos with a delayed payoff
- Any clip where the good part is four seconds in and viewers leave at two
- Recipe, build and process content approaching the finished result
How it plays
A visible countdown converts vague waiting into a known cost, and viewers will pay a cost they can see the end of. The whole count fills the same window regardless of where you start it, so counting from ten just ticks faster than counting from three — the pacing stays right either way.
Not the right pick when
A dated event that is days away rather than seconds. Use the Event Countdown, which runs in days, hours and minutes.
The GLASS family
GLASS panels are frosted dark — translucent charcoal with a blurred edge and a hairline border. They sit on darker, contrastier footage: night streets, studio setups with a lit subject on a dark ground, gameplay, screen recordings. On a bright white kitchen they vanish, which is exactly why FROST exists.
Format and export
- Aspect
- Vertical (9:16) · 1080 × 1920
- Runs for
- 8 seconds
- Built for
- Darker, contrastier footage — night, studio, gameplay
- Publishes to
- Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts
- Exports as
- ProRes 4444, PNG sequence, MP4
- Background
- Transparent
- Price
- In Lite & Creator Pro · or $3.99 to own
Edit it in the iReelz Studio — the transparent exports drop straight onto a timeline in Premiere Pro, CapCut, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.