Tools
Captions and banners
Text over the picture, anchored to a scene so it travels with the shot it belongs to.
What it does
Anchored text is a banner, a button or a bug — a plate with the accent rail, a pill in the accent colour, or a small quiet mark in a corner — and it is set like text: face, size, bold, italic, underline, colour. Drag its edge on the timeline to change how long it stays.
The spoken line can stay off the screen for a clean picture; the captions file is written either way.
A lower-third name, a callout, a subscribe prompt. Each one hangs from a scene and an offset into it, and lasts as long as you say.
Six positions: bottom, top, and the four corners.
The standard behind it
- A layer takes no time in the programme. Removing one leaves no gap, because it never occupied the line — which is the whole difference between a banner and an inserted scene.
- Anchoring is to a scene, never to a timecode. Reorder the script or drop a sponsor in front and the banner moves with the shot it was put on.
- Text is capped at what fits on screen. A caption is a name or a short phrase; a sentence set over a shot is a subtitle, and subtitles come from the narration track instead.
Related tools
- Crop and speed
Reframe a shot to part of its source, and play it faster or slower, without touching the line over it.
- Motion on stills
A slow push or drift across a photograph, and nothing at all on footage that already moves.
- Music beds
One track under the whole programme, ducking under the speech by measurement.
See it run end to end
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