Is there an instruction manual or demo to show how to setup and use

There's a link on the website to the YouTube channel, where you'll find a video on the basics of creating a lower third along with a few others. More demo videos and ready-made projects will be coming soon.

Hello,

Thanks for writing, and for testing this properly. Answers below, in order.

1 · In and out animation for a lower third

Yes — the Stop/Next & Outro marker is exactly the right tool. The model is:

frame 0 ─── in-animation ─── [STOP marker] ─── out-animation ─── last frame

#play runs from frame 0 and holds at the first stop marker. #stop plays everything after that marker — your out-animation — and then hides the graphic. So you build both animations on one timeline and let the marker separate them.

About the watermark disappearing: that is the trial watermark, and if it vanishes it usually means the page reloaded or navigated, rather than the template misbehaving. One thing to check first: the template deliberately does not auto-play on load. It waits for a command. If vMix's "Start" only brings the input on air without issuing a BrowserNavigate to yourfile.html#play, nothing will animate — the graphic just sits in its pre-roll state.

There is a quicker way to test this without setting up any shortcut. In vMix, right-click the Browser input and enable keyboard input for it — then F1 plays and F2 stops the template directly. That tells you immediately whether the template itself is fine and the problem is only in how the trigger is wired. The same two keys work if you open the exported file in a plain browser.

So: try F1 first. If the animation runs correctly, all that is left is to create the shortcut:

BrowserNavigate → yourfile.html#play
BrowserNavigate → yourfile.html#stop

If it does not run even with F1, then something is genuinely wrong and I would like to see it — tell me what you observe and I will look into it.

2 · Multiple "pages" in one overlay, triggered out of sequence

Yes, this is supported, and it is how I use the tool most in my own work — one template holding many elements, each brought in and out independently, in any order.

It goes through the same #update: channel:

yourfile.html#update:{"showBar":3} bring element 3 in
yourfile.html#update:{"hideBar":3} take element 3 out
yourfile.html#update:{"show":[1,4,7]} bring several in at once
yourfile.html#update:{"level":"2:3"} send element 2 to its 3rd stop marker

showBar / hideBar play that element's own in- and out-animation without touching the others. level is the more capable one: if an element has several stop markers, you can send it straight to any of them, in any order, and it animates there from wherever it currently is. Re-sending a value it already holds does nothing, so a live data source can simply keep sending its current state.

The elements are worked out automatically at export time from how your layers are named and animated — layers named Name1, Title1, Photo1 become element 1, and so on.

3 · Font weights beyond bold and italic

You are right, and it is a fair point. The editor currently offers only Bold and Italic toggles, so Light, Medium and SemiBold cuts cannot be reached from the interface.

This is being addressed in the next version — text layers get a proper Weight selector listing the cuts the chosen family actually has, and the weight can even be animated over time. I will let you know when that build is out.

Two things that may help in the meantime:

Version 1.5.9 fixed a related and worse problem: previously only one file per family was embedded in an export, so a layer set to Bold shipped with the regular file and came out plain. Now every weight and italic combination a project uses is embedded as its own font file, matched to what the editor draws. If you tested on 1.5.8, that alone is worth updating for.

And practically: if a cut is installed as its own family — many families ship "Montserrat SemiBold" as a separate entry — it shows up in the font list and can be selected today.

If you tell me which family you are working with, I can check how Windows exposes its cuts and tell you exactly what will work right now.

Best regards,
Darko