{
 "slug": "checklist-tracker",
 "name": "Checklist with a counter",
 "category": "effect",
 "group": "Overlays and inserts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The viewer watches the promise being kept item by item and stays to the end of the list.",
 "use_when": "List videos: N tips, N tools, N effects.",
 "phrase": "a checklist panel fills the right third from the first frame: numbered items, the current one highlighted in white, a counter 01 of 18 on top",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Measured on the reference: 18 items in 20.5 seconds, 6.83 visual changes per 10 seconds, 8.3 percent of plays saved, 12 times the median of the account's other clips. The checklist is on screen from frame 0 and ticks on every item.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, 22 Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "No more items than seconds allow; faster than one item per second is the listed failure.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "visible-counter",
  "edit-ticking-effects-list",
  "map-in-frame-zero"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "measured",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/checklist-tracker",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/checklist-tracker.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is checklist with a counter: the viewer watches the promise being kept item by item and stays to the end of the list. How it works: a checklist panel fills the right third from the first frame: numbered items, the current one highlighted in white, a counter 01 of 18 on top. It is right for: list videos: N tips, N tools, N effects. Measured on the reference: 18 items in 20.5 seconds, 6.83 visual changes per 10 seconds, 8.3 percent of plays saved, 12 times the median of the account's other clips. No more items than seconds allow; faster than one item per second is the listed failure. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}