Look and branding

Themes and element styles

What changes only your working view, what ships in the video, and how a style is remembered for the next element.

Quick steps

This view only
Everything in this section changes what YOU see while building and never touches the exported video. The grid and price scale that ship in the video are under Output.
Crosshair
Dashed lines through the pointer with price and column readouts, so you can see the value you are actually on while drawing rather than guessing from the grid.
Safe area
Outlines where a platform draws its own interface over a vertical video — status bar, action rail, captions and nav. Shown in the Output pane and the export preview, never in the exported file. The zones are estimates: platform UI shifts with app version, device and caption length.
Lock and eye
Under Element visibility, a closed lock makes a kind unclickable — clicks and the lasso fall straight through to whatever sits underneath, which is how you draw behind your zones without grabbing one. An eye stops a kind being drawn while you build. Neither reaches the export: every hidden kind is still in the video, disclaimer included.

Two sections that look similar and are not: Theme changes what you see while building, Style changes what the video looks like.

Theme — your working view only

Nothing in this section reaches the export.

Option	What it draws
Grid	Guides in the editor pane
Price scale	Prices down the side while you work
Snap markers	Where a drag will land
Crosshair	Dashed lines through the pointer with price and column chips
Candle numbers	Column indices above every fifth candle
Element list	The list panel at the bottom of the properties panel
Safe area	Platform UI zones on a vertical video

The grid and price scale that ship in the video are separate settings under Output — see price scale and grid.

These are per-user preferences, not project data. They follow your account rather than the project, so undo, reset, export and import cannot see them and a colleague opening your file gets their own.

Safe areas are the one deliberate exception to preview-equals-export: they are drawn in the Output pane and the export preview, and never in the exported file. See logo, product mark and safe areas.

Style — the video's look

Candle colours (Appearance → Candles) are a project palette, not a per-candle property, which is what lets a brand kit recolour a whole chart in one action. Several presets ship; any of them can be edited.

Glow is a single bloom pass over the finished picture rather than a per-element effect. Candles, levels and lines glow together, at one intensity.

Preview and export run the same pass, so what you see is what the file contains. Off is pixel-identical to a project that never had glow at all.

Element styles

Each tool remembers the last look you used, so the next zone matches the previous one without being told to.

Presets go further: a named style you save once and apply anywhere, shared across every kind. A preset carries the look and the motion — fill, stroke, typeface, reveal style, duration, easing, and the element's sound — but never the timing. Where an element sits in a video is a property of that video.

That split has a practical consequence: applying a preset saved before some field existed leaves that field alone rather than resetting it, so old presets keep working as the app grows.

Build a style set before you build a series

Save a zone, a level and a title preset once, and every video after that starts consistent. Presets are per-account, so they are there in a new project.