Captions

Dynamic captions help keep your viewers engaged and focused on the video.

Adding dynamic captions

1. Click the Captions icon in the toolbar

2. Select a caption format to add it to the canvas:

   

3. Position the captions by dragging them to the desired location in the scene, the same way you would any other other canvas element

By default, captions display the entire scene script when first added to a scene. Use triggers to define which part of the script you'd like each captions element to include.

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To add captions with the same style settings to all of your scenes, copy and paste the caption element into all of the scenes in your video.

This way, the style settings will be preserved, and you won't have to manually set them for the caption elements in all of your scenes.

Dynamic caption settings

To change the styling of your captions, select the caption element and adjust its settings from the inspector panel.

Dynamic captions have the following parameters that can be set after selecting them:

1. Preset: Change the caption format style.
2. Color: Change the color for the Background, Text, Active Text, and Active Background of the captions.
3. Motion: Change the animated movement of the captions. Only one of these options can be selected at a time.
   1. None: Captions appear as static text on the screen.
   2. Karaoke: Each word is shown in a different color as it is spoken, with no background color applied to the captions.
   3. Highlight: Each word is highlighted individually as it is spoken.
   4. Color: Each word is shown in a different color as it is spoken, with a background applied to the captions.
   5. Reveal: Words appear progressively as they are spoken, instead of all at once.
   6. Impact: Each word appears individually as it is spoken.
4. Style: Adjust the text style of the captions. Only one of these options can be selected at a time.
   1. None: No outline, shadow, or background styling.
   2. Outline: Change the outline color and thickness.
   3. Shadow: Add text shadow, then select a style (soft, regular, or retro), color, and opacity for the shadow.
   4. Background: Add a solid background, and adjust the border radius of the background.
5. Text: Basic settings for caption text.
   • Change the font family, size, and color.
   • Apply bold, italics, or underline styles.
   • Adjust the alignment of the text in the caption box.
   • Set the line height and letter-spacing.
6. Layer: Adjust the opacity of the captions.