Add sticker or emoji overlay

I need the sticker or emoji placed so viewers notice it without it covering the speaker’s face. Put a laughing emoji at the lower-right of the clip between 00:00:04 and 00:00:07, size roughly 10% of frame height, and make it fade in over 0.3s and hold opaque, then scale down 20% and fade out over 0.4s at 00:00:07. Check alignment on phone portrait crop before exporting.

Before I send this to the social lead, make the overlay obvious but not distracting: surface the sticker’s timing and size in the first frame viewers see, ensure it never crosses the lower third where captions sit, match its color temperature to the scene so it doesn’t feel pasted on, and flag any frames where the speaker’s hand or text would be obscured.

I just added a sticker and on my phone test it sits partly offscreen during the last second; the social lead will reject it. I don’t know if the sticker should be smaller or shifted up because there’s a caption bar that might appear later. What’s the likely quick fix and the safest final placement so captions and reactions won’t clash?

Across projects our stickers often get cut in previews or hide important captions. Where am I losing time and credibility — alignment rules, testing step, or handoff notes — and what one habit change would prevent this every time?