Everything needed to cut a Wrestleball video: intro sting, outro, lower third, captions, stat card, rule card, transitions, sound and export specs. Every template below is live — click it to play. Each one has the exact numbers underneath so an editor rebuilds it natively in Premiere, After Effects or CapCut instead of screen-recording this page.
Pair it with the two documents it depends on: the house cut style (the ten rules and the word bank) and the identity kit (colour and type origin).
Four values that never change. If a clip breaks one of them it is not a BoxingFinesse clip.
| Constant | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Bebas Neue, all caps, tracking +12/1000, line-height 0.86 | One face. Never a second display font. Inter only for tiny legal or role labels. |
| Frame | 1080×1920, 9:16, 25 fps (30 if the source is 30 — never mix in one timeline) | Vertical first. A 16:9 version is a crop of the vertical master, not the other way around. |
| Safe area | Nothing important in the top 14% or bottom 18% | Platform chrome eats it: handle, caption, buttons. |
| Red | Exactly one red element per frame | Two reds and neither one means anything. |
Comes after the first impact, never before it. Rule one of the cut style: the hit buys the logo. Two hard wipes, mark lands, red rule draws, gone.
| Frame (25 fps) | Action |
|---|---|
| 0–5 | Red #E8322B wipe, left→right, ease .7,0,.3,1 |
| 5–10 | Ink #0B0B0D wipe over it, same direction and ease |
| 9–13 | Wordmark up 8 px + fade in, ease .2,.9,.3,1 |
| 11–16 | Red rule draws to 62% width, centred |
| 21–24 | Whole mark fades out over the next shot |
Sound: one low sub hit on frame 0 (the wipe), no whoosh. The impact of the shot before it carries the sting.
Never: spin it, bevel it, put it on white, or let it run longer than 20 frames.
The workhorse. One word per cut, landing on the impact frame. Max three in a row, then get out. Scale down from 150% with a blur that resolves in three frames — it should feel like the word was punched into the frame, not animated onto it.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Size | 19% of frame height (≈365 px on 1920) |
| In | 3 frames: scale 150→100, blur 6→0, opacity 0→100 |
| Ease | .2,1.4,.4,1 — overshoots slightly, that is the punch |
| Hold | 9 frames minimum, then hard cut. No fade out. |
| Colour | Bone. The last word of the three is red — that is the point of the line. |
| Position | Optical centre, or on the third that is empty in the shot. Never over a face. |
Every word must land on a real impact: a body hitting the mat, a ball through the net, a beat. A word on a quiet frame is noise.
For anything with speech: interviews, commentary, explainers. Inactive words sit at 28% opacity so the eye reads ahead; the active word snaps to 100%. Key nouns go red. Never more than five words on screen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Size | 11% of frame height (≈210 px), Bebas Neue caps |
| Position | Baseline at 16% from bottom. Above the platform UI, below the action. |
| Inactive | Bone at 28% opacity |
| Active | Bone at 100%, snap on the syllable — 1 frame, no tween |
| Key words | Red, maximum two per line |
| Legibility | Drop shadow: 0 px offset, 18 px blur, black at 55%. No stroke, no box. |
| Line count | One line. Two only if the sentence breaks naturally. |
Auto-caption workflow: generate in CapCut or Premiere, then fix three things by hand — the timing on the key word, the line breaks, and the names. Auto-captions always spell fighters' names wrong.
Every athlete gets one, once, on their first appearance in a clip. Slides in from the left edge, holds while they speak, slides back out. Never two on screen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| In / out | 8 frames in, ease .16,1,.3,1; 6 frames out, ease .7,0,.84,0 |
| Hold | 2.2 s — long enough to read twice |
| Bar | 7 px red, full height of the block, flush to the left frame edge |
| Plate | Ink at 93%, 3 px background blur |
| Name | Bebas 24 px at 1080 width, caps |
| Role | Inter 700, 9 px, tracking +190/1000, grey. Format: Team · Role |
| Position | Bottom 14%, left edge. Above captions if both appear. |
The pillar nobody else in this sport has. A number on screen turns a highlight into evidence. Use one per clip, on the frame that proves it.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| In | 7 frames, slide 14 px from the right + fade, ease .16,1,.3,1 |
| Number | Bebas 44 px at 1080 width, red |
| Label | Inter 700, 9 px, tracking +200/1000, bone |
| Anchor | Right edge, top 12%. Never bottom (captions live there). |
Stats worth showing: takedowns in a match · wrestler attacks converted · clash wins · points from a single athlete · rebounding split · fouls to the penalty · prize money · seconds between a score and the next possession.
The Explained format lives or dies on this. One rule, one card, one demonstration behind it. Never explain two rules in one clip.
Once per match. Throw an opponent, score two. Miss it and you give up the ball.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| In | 8 frames, up 16 px + fade, ease .16,1,.3,1 |
| Width | 78% of frame, centred |
| Top border | 5 px red |
| Eyebrow | Inter 800, 9 px, tracking +240/1000, red, caps |
| Rule name | Bebas 34 px at 1080 width, max 3 words |
| Body | Inter 400, 12 px, grey, max 20 words. If it needs more, the rule is too complex for one clip. |
| Hold | 2.5 s, and the footage behind must show the rule happening while the card is up |
Every other transition is banned. No dissolves, no zooms, no page peels, no "glitch" presets. Hard cut is the default; these three are the only exceptions and each has one job.
4 frames, bone at 100% for 1 frame then out. Job: jump between two angles of the same moment. Sound: a single snare or the impact itself.
7 frames, directional blur sweeping across. Job: change location or time. Sound: a short air whoosh, low in the mix. Max one per clip.
4 frames up, 4 frames off the top. Job: chapter break in an explainer, or into the outro. Sound: the sub hit. Never mid-action.
Identical on every clip, forever. The consistency is the asset: after twenty videos people recognise the last two seconds before they read them.
| Frame (25 fps) | Action |
|---|---|
| 0–4 | Cut to ink. Hard cut, not a fade — the music stops at the same frame |
| 4–9 | Wordmark fades up, centred |
| 9–14 | CTA box in: bone text, 1 px red border |
| 14–19 | Event line in, grey |
| 19–40 | Hold to the end of the clip |
The CTA rotates by format, the layout never does:
Hype → Follow for every match · Explained → More rules on the channel · Meet the Ballers → Full profile in bio · Road to the Cup → Tickets in bio
Half the impact of every clip and the half most editors skip. The mat, the grunt and the crowd are the product — music sits under them, never over them.
| Layer | Level | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Natural sound | −6 dB, peaks to −3 | Never muted. The body hitting the mat, the squeak, the breath, the referee's whistle. This is what makes it real. |
| Impact hits | −8 dB | One low sub layered under the natural sound on the two biggest impacts only. Not on every cut. |
| Music | −16 dB, ducking to −22 under speech | Enters on the sting, not before. Cut it dead on the outro frame — do not fade. |
| Speech | −3 dB | Commentary or interview. If it competes with the music, the music loses. |
| Silence | — | One clip in five should drop everything but natural sound for a full second. It stops the scroll harder than any drop. |
| Loudness | −14 LUFS integrated, true peak −1 dB | Platform standard. Louder gets turned down automatically and sounds worse. |
Music licensing: Epidemic Sound or Artlist only, and log the track in the clip index. Never a chart song — the clip gets muted in half the territories and the reach dies silently.
| Destination | Size | Codec | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reels / TikTok / Shorts | 1080×1920 | H.264, 12 Mb/s VBR 2-pass, AAC 320 kb/s | The master. Everything else is derived from it. |
| YouTube long / broadcast | 1920×1080 | H.264, 20 Mb/s | Reframe by hand — a centre crop of a vertical master loses the action. |
| Feed square | 1080×1080 | H.264, 12 Mb/s | Only if the vertical crops cleanly. Check captions are not clipped. |
| Archive master | Source resolution | ProRes 422 or DNxHR SQ | Goes to 05 · Published in the video library. |
Filename: 2026-10-03_instagram_WB-GF-c07_v2.mp4 — date, channel, clip index id, version. It has to match the row in the Clip Index sheet.
Run it before every upload. Any unchecked box means it is not finished.
05 · Published