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Bar Reveal effect made with invideo Editor's timeline agent.
Process: I started from original night neon source footage, then prompted the timeline agent for a vertical bar wipe with a neon edge glow. I refined it to a 0.5s hold, a 1.5s center-out stagger, and purple + cyan accents across eight bars.
Timeline: https://invideo.io/share/Bar-Reveal-Agentic-sTLO6pj26cd
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The glowing controls are so good.
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Press Proof treats the player as a sheet on a proofing table. Most skins float translucent controls over the picture and hope the footage cooperates; this one prints them, in solid ink on an off-white paper strip, so they read the same over a night sky or a snowfield (ink on paper is about 16:1).
Every mark comes from the print shop and has a job. The timeline is a printer's colour bar with ruler ticks and a hatched buffer, the scrubber is a registration target, fullscreen is a pair of crop marks, volume is a ten-step densitometer scale, and the big play button is a registration target whose cyan and magenta plates sit slightly off register. The one piece of motion with a personality is misregistration: hover a control and its plates slip and snap back into register. With reduced motion on, nothing travels.
It stays usable for everyone: all controls in visual order on the keyboard with a single magenta-on-paper focus mark, menus that close with Escape and return focus, touch targets of 40 px or more, a full-bleed strip on phones, RTL support, and a clean fallback to system colours in Windows High Contrast. Icons were drawn for the skin; type is IBM Plex Mono. The demo page switches between bright footage (our Mux asset) and dark footage so legibility can be judged over both, and links to the skin workbench for sizes, ratios, languages and RTL.
Built with an AI coding assistant (Claude Code) from the Video.js CLI Scaffold starting point, under human art direction and review.
Footage: Big Buck Bunny (excerpt), © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, hosted on Mux; NASA Cosmic Dawn trailer (Video.js demo asset). Typeface: IBM Plex Mono (OFL). Skin licensed under Apache-2.0. Design and build: Rui Codex, Belgium.
Proof — a press-proof skin for Video.js v10
Proof treats the player like a sheet coming off the press. Crop and registration marks frame the picture, and the controls sit on an opaque paper margin with a K·C·M·Y colour bar, so they stay readable over bright and dark footage alike. The seek bar is a tint ruler with a registration-target thumb, volume is printed as ink density (yellow, magenta, cyan, then key), and when the video ends the sheet is stamped "OK to print."
It's built on the Scaffold skin's accessible components: every control is reachable by keyboard with a registration-magenta focus ring, touch targets are 44 px, the plate compacts on phones, motion switches off under reduced-motion, and decoration steps aside in forced-colours mode. The demo plays our own studio film from Mux, with chapters and captions. Designed and built by Sidepath Studio.
