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Year in Review Video: Your Year in Bold Recap Cards
This year in review video turns your best numbers and moments into a recap story of four to six full-screen color cards, in the style of the annual recap stories people love to share. Add your facts, let AI write the cards for free, and render an MP4 in 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1.
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A Year in Review Video Told Card by Card
An annual recap works because it is personal and quick: one big fact per screen, then the next. This template opens with a 2.5-second intro where the year and your title appear over moving color stripes. Then four to six cards follow, each one wiping in across the whole screen for 2.2 seconds with a big value, such as 1.2M or Lisbon, and a short caption in lower case that says what it means. A 3-second closing card ends the story with a thank-you or a look ahead. Four cards make a 14.3-second clip and six cards make 18.7 seconds, short enough that most viewers watch to the end and long enough to tell a full year.
Three Palettes That Keep Every Card Readable
Pick vivid, sunset or ocean. Each palette is a fixed set of six color blocks, and each block comes with its own matched text color, so the big values stay readable on every card. Vivid uses bright, high-contrast colors for creators and brands with a loud voice. Sunset uses warm oranges, pinks and purples for a softer, personal recap. Ocean uses blues and greens for a calm, clean look that suits companies and teams. You choose a palette rather than single colors, which keeps your year in review video consistent from the intro to the closing card. Switching palettes never changes your words, so you can compare all three with the same cards.
Your Facts, Written as Short Big Cards
Describe your year in the brief with the real facts and numbers, such as posts published, countries visited, customers served or your most watched video. Write with AI fills the year, the title, the cards and the closing line for free. Each value is kept short so it reads big on screen, a number with at most one unit or one or two words, and each caption is three to eight words in lower case. AI is instructed to use only the facts and numbers your brief gives and never to invent statistics, so check every card before you render. For a single milestone number instead of a full recap, the animated counter video template is quicker.
Cover Photo and a Free Frame Check for Your Year in Review Video
Add one optional cover photo, such as a portrait, a team picture or your best shot of the year, and it appears on the intro as a tilted, framed photo above the stripes. JPG, PNG and WebP files up to 10 MB work, from your uploads or from pictures you made with the AI image generator. Without a photo the intro is pure color and type. Then run the free AI frame check. It renders four stills across the recap and shortens a title, value, caption or closing line that would not fit. Because the animation is a pure function of time, the stills match the final MP4 frame for frame.
How to Make a Year in Review Video in 3 Steps
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Choose a frame and a cover photo
Select 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok, 16:9 for YouTube and presentations, or 1:1 for square feeds. Add a cover photo for the intro or leave it out. You can switch frames later without losing your cards. Sign in first, because writing with AI and rendering both need a free account.
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Write the cards of your year in review video
List the facts of your year in the brief and press Write with AI, or type the year, title, cards and closing line yourself. Each card has a value of up to 14 characters and a caption of up to 48. The free frame check previews four stills and fixes any text that does not fit.
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Pick a palette and render the recap
Choose vivid, sunset or ocean, correct any card, and render the MP4 for about 10 credits. Browse more social video templates for other formats. The finished MP4 stays in your history, ready to download again whenever you share it.
What Can You Make with a Year in Review Video?
Creator and Personal Recaps
Share the videos you posted, the views you earned, the cities you visited or the books you read. A year in review video gives followers a fun summary and a reason to share it with friends. Use the vertical frame and the vivid palette for Stories and Reels. Post it in the last week of December, when recaps fill every feed.
Company and Team Highlights
Thank customers and staff with the year in numbers: customers served, features shipped, new offices opened and team members hired. The ocean palette and the wide frame suit an all-hands meeting or a newsletter. Follow it with a short customer testimonial video to show the people behind the numbers.
Brand and Product Recap Campaigns
Give your community a recap of the year on your platform, such as orders placed, top categories and the most loved product. Use real numbers from your own data in every card. Keep the captions in lower case for the classic recap look. Render one version per region when your community spans several markets, and end with a closing line that invites people back next year.
Clubs, Schools and Events
Recap the season of a sports club, the school year or an annual event with matches played, students enrolled or tickets sold. For a ranked list of the best moments, use the top 10 video maker template. A team photo as the cover makes the year in review video feel like a group memory.
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