Make things appear, shake, and disappear with one preset.
Add common motions like a fade-in in one go with a preset from the Cue plugin. Presets go onto the timeline as keyframes, so you can still adjust each one after you add them.
Add an entrance with Cue
In Design mode, open the scene that has the object you want to animate. The Templates in the Motion panel are easing and spring curves, so use Cue presets for motions that make things appear and disappear.
Plugin panels like Cue appear in English even when the interface is in Korean. The steps below use the English names exactly as they appear on screen.
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Select an object
On the canvas, select the object you want to make appear. If you select several, they appear one after another.
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Open Cue
In the button row at the top right, click the lightbulb-shaped Plugins button. The list fills in one by one from the top. If “No plugins yet” shows the first time you open it, wait a moment. Click Cue to open the Cue panel.
In the Plugins panel list, clicking Cue opens the Cue panel. Video: Clicking the lightbulb-shaped Plugins button at the top right opens the plugin list, and clicking Cue opens the Cue panel. -
Choose a preset
On the In tab, choose Rise from the preset cards. The preview box at the top plays that motion on repeat. To preview another card, just hover over it.
Choosing Rise makes the shape in the preview box rise from below out of a blur. Video: Choosing the Rise card on the In tab of the Cue panel makes a small shape in the preview box at the top rise from below out of a blur, over and over. -
Apply it
Click Apply at the bottom of the panel. When the top line reads “Rise In applied to 1 object(s)”, the keyframes are in. The canvas in Design mode stays as it is.
Clicking Apply changes the top line to “Rise In applied to 1 object(s)”. Video: Clicking Apply at the bottom of the Cue panel changes the top line to Rise In applied to 1 object(s), while the card on the canvas stays as it is in Design mode. -
Play it back
Choose Animation mode from the mode button at the top left. At 0 seconds the object hasn’t appeared yet, so you can’t see it. Click the triangle-shaped Play button at the top of the timeline below, and the object rises into view.
Clicking Play sends the playhead across, and the object rises from below. Video: Choosing Animation mode from the mode button makes the card seem to vanish at 0 seconds. Clicking Play on the timeline then makes the card rise from below out of a blur.
On the presentation screen, it starts on the first click
When you open the presentation screen with the triangle-shaped Present from this scene button in the button row at the top right, that scene waits for the first click before it plays its animation. So an object that enters stays hidden until you click. From the next scene on, animations play as soon as the scene arrives, so click the screen once on the first scene.
Cue’s four tabs
| Tab | What it does | Presets |
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| In | Appearing. Starts at the playhead, or at the start of the scene in Design mode. | Fade · Slide · Scale · Pop · Bounce · Drop · Spin · Stretch · Roll · Blur · Flip · Zoom · Back · Lightspeed · Rise · Draw |
| Emphasis | Drawing the eye in place. Starts at the playhead and repeats as many times as the Repeat value. If there’s an In, it comes after it. | Shake · Headshake · Nod · Swing · Wobble · Jello · Flash · Tada · Heartbeat · Rubber Band · Jump |
| Out | Disappearing. Starts at the playhead, or in Design mode, ends right at the end of the timeline. | Fade · Slide · Scale · Pop · Spin · Drop · Roll · Blur · Flip · Zoom · Back · Lightspeed · Sink · Erase |
| Loop | Repeats the same motion every Cycle, from the playhead to the end of the timeline. | Pulse · Breathe · Float · Bounce · Wiggle · Spin |
Fine-tune the duration and feel
When you choose a card, Duration fills in with a length tuned for that preset. It’s in milliseconds. Intensity is the strength of the motion: 100% is the preset as is.
On the In and Out tabs, change the feel with Easing. Preset keeps the preset as is, and choosing Gentle, Quick, Bouncy, or Slow changes the curve of the main motion. In also has Delay, the wait before it starts.
For presets with a direction, like Slide, choose the direction with the arrows in Direction and the distance with Near or Far in Distance. With Far, the object enters from beyond the canvas edge or exits past it. After you change values, click Apply again.
Several objects in turn
When you select several objects and apply, each one starts later than the one before by the Stagger interval. The default is 60ms.
Choose which goes first in Order. Selection follows the order you selected them in, Reverse is the opposite, Left → right starts from the left, Top → bottom from the top, Center out from the center, and Random is random.
Turn on One after another to start each object after the previous one finishes. Stagger isn’t used then.
Letter by letter, like typing
To reveal letters one at a time. Select the text, open Plugins › Anagram, and click Apply — split text. The letter pieces stay selected in reading order, so applying a preset in Cue right away makes the letters appear one by one. If you split it with Split Text in the sub-toolbar instead, the group is selected. In that case, select all the letter pieces in the Objects list, choose Top → bottom in Order, and then apply.
To make text appear as if typed. Select the text, open Plugins › Typer, and click Apply. Korean text builds up one jamo (letter part) at a time, and you set the pace with Speed (characters per second).
To retime motion that’s already there. Select two or more objects that have keyframes, and open Plugins › Domino. In Mode, choose Stagger (offset at a fixed interval) or Chain (each one starts when the previous one ends), and click Apply.
Fix and undo
Presets go in as ordinary keyframes, so you move or delete them on the timeline the same way as in Work with keyframes. To switch to a different preset, choose it and click Apply again. It replaces the earlier preset from the same tab.
Press ⌘Z once to undo what you just applied, all of it at once. To remove it later, select the object, choose None on that tab, and click Apply. Restore motion removes all Cue presets from the selected objects and puts back the original keyframes the presets replaced.
Moving an object after adding a preset throws its motion off
If you move the object in Design mode, only the motion’s first keyframe moves to the new spot, so the object travels from the new spot back to the old one. Select the object and open the Cue panel, and you see a line like “1 object(s) changed after Cue animated them.” Click Re-fit next to it to rebuild the motion for where the object is now.
Shortcuts on this page
| Switch to Animation mode | Tab |
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| Play or pause the timeline (Animation mode) | Space |
| Undo the preset you just applied | ⌘Z |
| Play from this scene | ⇧F5 |
Updated 10/12/2026 · The videos on this page were recorded in the current editor.