Direct how a deck's text looks and moves (a chapter's caption, the title sequence's words, or the closing sequence's cards).

A deck's title sequence opens its master, before the first chapter: optionally an epigraph (epigraph: its words and where they are from) and a source credit (sourceCredit), each quiet on black and held long enough to read; then flash cuts of six to ten frames to the people it names (cast, in order; inShadow darkens one), each the person's LIVING PORTRAIT — looking into the lens, still, breathing, rendered for the flash (priced first, its own step) — and until it is made a still, silent close from the deck's own takes or another rendered deck of the project (free), never one in which anyone speaks or moves; a still canon portrait image only when the writer asks for one (flashSource: 'portrait'); then the title (title, one word, in capitals) in a bold sans on black. The flash cuts and the title run seconds (3 to 5). With nameSupers: true each flash cut carries the person's NAME in the TITLE'S LOOK — the face and colour the title is drawn in (blood red, the heavy condensed sans, when the title is directed so), uppercase, large enough to read at 480p — on the bell beat with the face, set in the black BESIDE the picture (or over the top of it), never over the face: LABEL is the first word of the person's canon name in capitals unless their cast entry sets label, and role (up to 40 characters, optional) is a smaller line under it; a person inShadow gets no name unless their label is set (the shadow withholds who they are); how the names look and where they sit is directed with titleElement: nameSupers. With beatGrid: true the intros cut on the bell's beat: from the sequence's first frame a beat every beatSeconds (0.5 to 4; 2 when left out), each flash cut starting on a beat and holding exactly one beat (the one in shadow too), the title on the next beat for titleBeats beats (1 to 8; 2 when left out) — their seconds are then derived (beats × beatSeconds), and a score composed to the deck strikes its bell on every intro and on the title. Saving it is free: nothing is rendered for it (a motion close is its own priced step). enabled: false keeps it without playing it. How its words look and move is directed separately (titleElement on the direct-text-motion call; read back as textMotion), and a save keeps those directions.

A deck's closing sequence ends its master, after the last chapter, and mirrors its title sequence: optionally a closing quote (quote: its words, quoted exactly, and where they are from, cited exactly — one that answers the opening's epigraph, often from the same source), then "Coming Soon" (comingSoon, up to 40 characters; "Coming Soon" when left out), then the production credit (productionCredit; "Sleeper Hit Studio" when left out), each quiet on black, faded in and out and held long enough to read. It ADDS to the deck's length: no chapter is shortened for it. When the title sequence cuts on its bell beat grid, each card starts on a beat of that same grid and the bell lane accents it. Across it the music (the score or the beds) and the bell lane fade out smoothly to silence on the master's last frame: what still sounds at the last chapter's cut plays on under the cards. A card with no direction of its own wears the opening's look (the quote the epigraph's, the credit the source credit's, "Coming Soon" the title's or the epigraph's background), so the deck is sandwiched by one style. It is free: nothing is rendered for it, and a rendered deck's master is stitched again with it. enabled: false keeps it without playing it. How its words look and move is directed separately (closingElement on the direct-text-motion call; read back as textMotion), and a save keeps those directions. THE LOGO CARD (logoCard: true, off when left out) ends the sequence on the project's brand logo, alone on black after the production credit, faded in and out and held 3 seconds. The logo is the project's (brandLogoUrl on the project, set on the site's Closing card, with the Story API project update's brandLogo, or on the CLI with projects update --brand-logo-file); a save that turns the card on while the project has no logo is refused, and the save copies the logo the project has at that moment (read back as logoUrl), so save the closing again after replacing the logo. Free like the rest of the sequence.