Style captions

Captions use a look, which sets their font, colors, background and how words appear. Captions need a transcript first. See Edit captions and transcripts if the panel offers Generate captions.

Choose a look

1. Open Captions in the editor.
2. Choose All scenes to style every scene, or This scene to give the selected scene its own captions.
3. Select a look in the gallery, or None to hide captions.

Most looks show a line at a time. A few, such as Burst, Sticker and Marker, show one word at a time.

A video that already used an older style keeps it, listed as (older style) with Size, Position, Dark Mode and Word by word highlighting settings. Choosing a look replaces it.

Edit a look

Select the settings button on a look, labeled Edit style, to change it:

• Size (Small, Medium or Large) and Position on the frame.
• Font and text Color.
• Case: normal, lowercase or uppercase.
• Word by word highlights each word as it is spoken. When it is on, Highlight sets the highlight color for looks that have one.
• Background adds or removes a box behind the text. With a box, set its Box color and Opacity. For the boxed looks, Motion chooses Glide or Swap for how the box moves between lines.

Use the reset button at the top of Edit style, labeled Reset to the look's defaults, to undo your changes to that look. In This scene view, the reset button at the top of the panel, labeled Reset this scene's captions, returns the scene to the video's captions.

Edit the words or download captions

Correct wording and timing from the transcript. See Edit a video with the transcript. Select Caption options to download the captions as .srt or .vtt.

To put captions in an exported video, choose Burned in when you download. See Export and download a video.