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Tella Motion adds animated graphics to your video: title cards, animated text, shapes and motion designs. To start one, choose Add clip → New Tella Motion clip under the timeline, then describe what you want to the Tella Agent and it builds it.

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Add a Tella Motion clip

  1. Open your video in the Tella editor.
  2. Click Add clip at the end of the clips under the preview.
  3. Choose New Tella Motion clip.
Tella adds a blank 10-second clip named “Tella Motion” plus a number at the end of your video and opens it. Tella Motion clips have a rose card in the clip list, so you can tell them apart from your recorded clips.

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Build it with the Tella Agent

With the Tella Motion clip selected, describe what it should show in the Tella Agent chat on the right of the editor. For example:
  • “Make an intro title card that says ‘Quarterly update’ and fades in word by word.”
  • “Add a dark background with three animated bullet points about our new features.”
  • “Make the title bigger and slow down the animation.”
The agent edits the clip while you watch, and you can keep asking for changes until it looks right. See Edit with the Tella Agent to open the chat.

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Add motion graphics over your recording

You don’t need a separate clip to use Tella Motion. Ask the agent to add a Tella Motion overlay or b-roll to one of your recorded clips, for example “Add an animated lower third with my name when I first appear” or “Show an animated chart while I talk about revenue.” It plays over your recording or in place of it, timed to what you say.

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What you can do in a Tella Motion clip

A Tella Motion clip plays its own animation instead of a recording, so it has no transcript, layouts or cuts. You can still add overlays on top of it.
  • In the toolbar on the left, Setup, Library and Overlay work. The other tools show “Not available in a Tella Motion clip”.
  • Click Overlay to add images, videos and text on top of the animation. They’re timed from the start of the clip and appear above it in your shared and exported video.
  • Use the playbar under the preview to play the clip or click to jump to a moment.
  • Open the clip’s menu in the clip list to Rename, Duplicate or Delete it, or drag it to move it.
  • Open Setup to play the whole video, Tella Motion clips included.
Tella Motion clips play in your shared and exported video like any other clip.

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Build Tella Motion from your own AI agent or code

AI agents connected to the Tella MCP server, and scripts using the Tella API, can build Tella Motion clips, overlays and b-roll with the same commands the Tella Agent uses. See Tella Motion in the developer docs for the tools, endpoints and every command they take.
Last modified on October 27, 2026