hyperframes/docs/catalog/components/beat-accent.mdx

---
title: "Beat Accent"
description: "A single music-hit sting: impact flash, micro scale-pulse on the subject, immediate decay."
mode: "frame"
---

import { CatalogDetail, CatalogSlot } from "/snippets/catalog-detail.jsx";
import { InstallCommand } from "/snippets/install-command.jsx";

<CatalogDetail
  previewSrc="/public/catalog/components/beat-accent.json"
  compositionId="beat-accent"
  compositionSrc="compositions/components/beat-accent.html"
  title="Beat Accent"
  description="A single music-hit sting: impact flash, micro scale-pulse on the subject, immediate decay."
  variables={[{"id":"text","type":"string","role":"content","label":"Accent text","description":"Word or short label emphasized by the beat hit.","default":"BOOM"},{"id":"flashColor","type":"enum","role":"style","label":"Flash color","description":"Token-backed accent tone used by the radial flash.","default":"accent","options":[{"value":"accent","label":"Accent"},{"value":"soft","label":"Soft accent"},{"value":"bright","label":"Bright accent"}]},{"id":"intensity","type":"number","role":"timing","label":"Intensity","description":"Strength of the scale pulse, flash, and shake.","default":1,"min":0.5,"max":2,"step":0.1}]}
  meta={{"category":"Motion Scenes","badge":"Stable","codeLines":324}}
  attribution={{"path":"registry/components/beat-accent","tags":["motion-primitive","effects","burst","sting","emphasize","impact"]}}
  hasCode
  rawUrl="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/main/registry/components/beat-accent/beat-accent.html"
>

<CatalogSlot slot="code">

```html beat-accent.html
<!doctype html>
<!--
  beat-accent: HyperFrames video primitive (effects / burst / emphasize)

  Concept: a single music-hit sting. A centered word snaps up in scale as a
  radial impact flash erupts behind it, shakes by a small amount, then settles
  immediately. One mechanic, one job: visual punctuation on one beat during IN.
  This burst fires once and never loops. HOLD stays deliberately calm and still
  after the decay.

  Compiled-from evidence: Video Primitives v1 GAP C1, "sting: impact
  flash/scale on a music hit." The candidates catalog describes a C1 gap:
  music-driven films need visual punctuation on the downbeat and had nothing
  atomic to reach for. A declared sync point makes the primitive weldable to
  any audio hit. Catalog shelf: effects / burst / emphasize. The impact uses
  the easing vocabulary's --ease-slam, GSAP expo.out, with the CSS mirror
  cubic-bezier(0.19, 1, 0.22, 1), kept brief per taste rule 3.

  Use when: one downbeat, edit point, reveal, or hard musical hit needs a short
  visual accent. Mount it over the subject or use its centered word as the
  subject. Do not use it as an ambient loop or a repeated visualizer.

  Variables (declared in data-composition-variables below):
    - text (string, default "BOOM"): the word or label that receives the hit.
    - flashColor (enum, default "accent"): accent, soft accent, or bright
      accent. Every option is derived from var(--accent), so theme changes
      always repaint the flash.
    - intensity (number, 0.5 to 2, default 1, step 0.1): scales subject pulse,
      flash opacity and spread, and shake distance as one legible control.

  Envelope (fixed IN/OUT, elastic HOLD only, never gsap.timeScale()):
    IN_BASE  = 0.90s, calm lead, impact snap, flash, shake, and full decay
    HOLD     = elastic = max(0, D - (IN_BASE + OUT_BASE)), deliberately still
    OUT_BASE = 0.40s, clean release fade
    If D < IN_BASE + OUT_BASE, IN and OUT scale down together so IN + OUT == D
    and HOLD == 0. All fixed offsets and motion durations use the same scale.

  Sync point: impact-hard lands at IMPACT_AT = 0.25s into an unscaled IN. It
  scales proportionally only when the full envelope is compressed. ADR-0007
  requires declared sync points to remain in a fixed phase, never inside the
  elastic HOLD, so audio and visual timing cannot drift as duration changes.

  Sound cue: the primitive never plays audio. At IMPACT_AT it dispatches a
  bubbling `hf:sfx` CustomEvent with detail { id: "impact-hard", t: IMPACT_AT }.
  A host mix stage may catch that event and route the id to its chosen asset.

  Mount contract: this file is a MOUNTABLE SUB-COMPOSITION, not a standalone
  composition. A host loads it via data-composition-src; the runtime clones
  only <template> contents, while everything outside <template>, including
  <head>, is discarded on mount. #root has no data-width or data-height. It is
  styled by id, never by class, and fills the host box with position:absolute,
  inset:0, container-type:size. Variables are read through
  window.__hyperframes.getVariables(), never by parsing document.documentElement,
  because the mounted document element belongs to the host composition.
-->
<html
  lang="en"
  data-composition-variables='[
    { "id": "text", "type": "string", "role": "content", "label": "Accent text", "description": "Word or short label emphasized by the beat hit.", "default": "BOOM" },
    { "id": "flashColor", "type": "enum", "role": "style", "label": "Flash color", "description": "Token-backed accent tone used by the radial flash.", "default": "accent", "options": [{ "value": "accent", "label": "Accent" }, { "value": "soft", "label": "Soft accent" }, { "value": "bright", "label": "Bright accent" }] },
    { "id": "intensity", "type": "number", "role": "timing", "label": "Intensity", "description": "Strength of the scale pulse, flash, and shake.", "default": 1, "min": 0.5, "max": 2, "step": 0.1 }
  ]'
>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Beat Accent</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <template>
      <div id="root" data-composition-id="beat-accent" data-duration="4" data-fps="30">
        <style>
          *,
          *::before,
          *::after {
            box-sizing: border-box;
          }

          #root {
            --ease-slam: cubic-bezier(0.19, 1, 0.22, 1);
            --ba-flash-color: var(--accent, #ff4f8b);
            position: absolute;
            inset: 0;
            container-type: size;
            isolation: isolate;
            overflow: hidden;
            background: var(--bg, #0b1120);
            color: var(--fg, #f8fafc);
            font-family: var(--font-body, system-ui, sans-serif);
            pointer-events: none;
          }

          .ba-clip {
            position: absolute;
            inset: 0;
            display: grid;
            place-items: center;
            overflow: hidden;
          }

          .ba-stage {
            position: relative;
            width: 100%;
            height: 100%;
            display: grid;
            place-items: center;
            will-change: transform, opacity;
          }

          .ba-flash {
            position: absolute;
            width: 62cqw;
            aspect-ratio: 1;
            border-radius: 50%;
            background: radial-gradient(
              circle,
              color-mix(in srgb, var(--ba-flash-color) 92%, transparent) 0%,
              color-mix(in srgb, var(--ba-flash-color) 54%, transparent) 24%,
              color-mix(in srgb, var(--ba-flash-color) 16%, transparent) 48%,
              transparent 72%
            );
            opacity: 0;
            will-change: transform, opacity;
          }

          .ba-flash::after {
            content: "";
            position: absolute;
            inset: 22%;
            border: 0.45cqmin solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--ba-flash-color) 78%, transparent);
            border-radius: 50%;
          }

          .ba-subject {
            position: relative;
            z-index: 1;
            display: block;
            width: 86cqw;
            color: var(--fg, #f8fafc);
            font-family: var(--font-display, var(--font-body, system-ui, sans-serif));
            font-size: 20cqmin;
            font-weight: 900;
            line-height: 0.9;
            letter-spacing: -0.055em;
            text-align: center;
            text-transform: uppercase;
            white-space: nowrap;
            overflow: hidden;
            text-overflow: ellipsis;
            text-shadow:
              0 0 2cqmin color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent, #ff4f8b) 46%, transparent),
              0 1.2cqh 3.8cqh color-mix(in srgb, var(--bg, #0b1120) 68%, transparent);
            transform-origin: 50% 50%;
            will-change: transform;
          }
        </style>

        <div
          id="beat-accent-clip"
          class="ba-clip clip"
          data-start="0"
          data-duration="4"
          data-track-index="0"
        >
          <div class="ba-stage">
            <div class="ba-flash" aria-hidden="true"></div>
            <div class="ba-subject"></div>
          </div>
        </div>

        <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/gsap@3.14.2/dist/gsap.min.js"></script>
        <script>
          (function () {
            "use strict";

            var root = document.getElementById("root");
            var stage = root.querySelector(".ba-stage");
            var flash = root.querySelector(".ba-flash");
            var subject = root.querySelector(".ba-subject");
            var vars =
              window.__hyperframes && window.__hyperframes.getVariables
                ? window.__hyperframes.getVariables()
                : {};

            var text = vars.text == null ? "BOOM" : String(vars.text);
            var flashChoice =
              vars.flashColor === "soft" || vars.flashColor === "bright"
                ? vars.flashColor
                : "accent";
            var intensityValue = Number(vars.intensity);
            var intensity = Number.isFinite(intensityValue)
              ? Math.max(0.5, Math.min(2, intensityValue))
              : 1;

            var flashColors = {
              accent: "var(--accent, #ff4f8b)",
              soft: "color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent, #ff4f8b) 70%, var(--bg, #0b1120))",
              bright: "color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent, #ff4f8b) 72%, var(--fg, #f8fafc))",
            };

            subject.textContent = text;
            root.style.setProperty("--ba-flash-color", flashColors[flashChoice]);

            var IN_BASE = 0.9;
            var OUT_BASE = 0.4;
            var IMPACT_AT_BASE = 0.25;
            var SNAP_BASE = 0.12;
            var SETTLE_BASE = 0.28;
            var FLASH_IN_BASE = 0.08;
            var FLASH_OUT_BASE = 0.28;

            var duration = Math.max(0.001, parseFloat(root.dataset.duration || "4"));
            var totalBase = IN_BASE + OUT_BASE;
            var envelopeScale = duration < totalBase ? duration / totalBase : 1;
            var IN = IN_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var OUT = OUT_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var IMPACT_AT = IMPACT_AT_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var SNAP = SNAP_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var SETTLE = SETTLE_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var FLASH_IN = FLASH_IN_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var FLASH_OUT = FLASH_OUT_BASE * envelopeScale;
            var HOLD = Math.max(0, duration - (IN + OUT));
            var OUT_START = IN + HOLD;

            var restScale = 1 - 0.06 * intensity;
            var peakScale = 1 + 0.18 * intensity;
            var flashPeakScale = 0.78 + 0.3 * intensity;
            var flashEndScale = 1.08 + 0.32 * intensity;
            var flashPeakOpacity = Math.min(0.96, 0.5 + 0.23 * intensity);
            var shakeX = 0.9 * intensity;
            var shakeY = 0.34 * intensity;

            gsap.set(stage, { x: 0, y: 0, opacity: 1 });
            gsap.set(subject, { scale: restScale });
            gsap.set(flash, { scale: 0.25, opacity: 0 });

            var tl = gsap.timeline({ paused: true });

            tl.to(subject, { scale: peakScale, duration: SNAP, ease: "expo.out" }, IMPACT_AT);
            tl.to(subject, { scale: 1, duration: SETTLE, ease: "power3.out" }, IMPACT_AT + SNAP);

            tl.to(
              flash,
              {
                scale: flashPeakScale,
                opacity: flashPeakOpacity,
                duration: FLASH_IN,
                ease: "expo.out",
              },
              IMPACT_AT,
            );
            tl.to(
              flash,
              { scale: flashEndScale, opacity: 0, duration: FLASH_OUT, ease: "power3.out" },
              IMPACT_AT + FLASH_IN,
            );

            tl.to(
              stage,
              {
                x: shakeX + "cqw",
                y: -shakeY + "cqh",
                duration: 0.04 * envelopeScale,
                ease: "none",
              },
              IMPACT_AT,
            );
            tl.to(
              stage,
              {
                x: -shakeX * 0.7 + "cqw",
                y: shakeY * 0.75 + "cqh",
                duration: 0.05 * envelopeScale,
                ease: "none",
              },
              IMPACT_AT + 0.04 * envelopeScale,
            );
            tl.to(
              stage,
              {
                x: shakeX * 0.3 + "cqw",
                y: -shakeY * 0.35 + "cqh",
                duration: 0.05 * envelopeScale,
                ease: "none",
              },
              IMPACT_AT + 0.09 * envelopeScale,
            );
            tl.to(
              stage,
              {
                x: 0,
                y: 0,
                duration: 0.12 * envelopeScale,
                ease: "power3.out",
              },
              IMPACT_AT + 0.14 * envelopeScale,
            );

            tl.call(
              function () {
                root.dispatchEvent(
                  new CustomEvent("hf:sfx", {
                    detail: { id: "impact-hard", t: IMPACT_AT },
                    bubbles: true,
                  }),
                );
              },
              [],
              IMPACT_AT,
            );

            tl.to(stage, { opacity: 0, duration: OUT, ease: "power2.out" }, OUT_START);
            tl.seek(0);

            window.__timelines = window.__timelines || {};
            // Literal id is required. Mount flattening strips data-composition-id
            // from this inner root, so reading the id from root would register
            // under null and leave the host unable to find this timeline.
            window.__timelines["beat-accent"] = tl;
          })();
        </script>
      </div>
    </template>
  </body>
</html>
```

</CatalogSlot>

<CatalogSlot slot="install">

<InstallCommand command="npx hyperframes add beat-accent" item="beat-accent" />

That writes one file: `compositions/components/beat-accent.html`.

</CatalogSlot>

<CatalogSlot slot="docs">

## Paste it into your composition

Open `compositions/components/beat-accent.html` and copy what is inside into your own composition.

A component has no size or duration of its own. It takes both from the composition
you paste it into.

## Variables

Every one of these has a default, so the piece works untouched. Set the ones you
want to change on the element:

| Variable | Default | Accepts | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `text` | `BOOM` | string | Word or short label emphasized by the beat hit. |
| `flashColor` | `accent` | `accent`, `soft`, `bright` | Token-backed accent tone used by the radial flash. |
| `intensity` | `1` | 0.5 to 2, step 0.1 | Strength of the scale pulse, flash, and shake. |

Set them with `data-variable-values` on the element that mounts it. These are the
defaults, so this behaves exactly like the preview above until you change one:

```html wrap
<div
  data-composition-id="beat-accent"
  data-composition-src="compositions/components/beat-accent.html"
  data-variable-values='{"text":"BOOM","flashColor":"accent","intensity":1}'
></div>
```

{/* hf:generated-footer */}

Tagged `motion-primitive` `effects` `burst` `sting` `emphasize` `impact`.

## Related topics

- [Browse the complete Catalog](/catalog)
- [Add assets and Catalog items in Studio](/studio/assets-and-blocks)
- [Build a richer composition](/go-further)

</CatalogSlot>

</CatalogDetail>