The Highlight Text section is where you can adjust the styling of the highlighted text in your captions. You can use this to emphasize certain words or phrases in your captions. Use the Highlight Tool to set words or phrases as highlighted text.

These styles will override the Main Text and the Active Text styles.

Enabled

This toggle will enable or disable the highlight text styles. When disabled, the highlight text will use the main text styles and the active text styles.

Font

Choose a separate font family and style for highlighted words only. This lets highlighted text use a different font from both the main and active text.

Scale

Set the scale of the highlight text. Adjusting this will increase or decrease the size of highlighted text.

Animation

The animation that will be applied to the highlight text as it is said. You can choose from a variety of animations and adjust the Intensity + Speed.

Types

  • Blur: The highlight text will blur in.
  • Fade: The highlight text will fade in.
  • Pop: The highlight text will scale up.
  • Slide Left: The highlight text will slide in from the left.
  • Slide Up: The highlight text will slide in from the top.
  • Slide Down: The highlight text will slide in from the bottom.
  • Zoom: The highlight text will start large and scale down.
  • None: No animation will be applied.

Tracking

The tracking is the space between characters. Adjusting this will increase or decrease the space between characters.

Skew

Skew tilts highlighted words left or right. Use positive or negative values to control the direction.

Case

The text case is the capitalization of the text. You can choose from Lowercase, Normal, and Uppercase.

Color

The fill color of highlighted words. You can choose from a color picker or enter a hex code.

Stroke

Width

The width of the stroke around highlighted words.

Color

The color of the stroke around highlighted words. You can choose from a color picker or enter a hex code.

Word Background

Add a colored shape behind highlighted words as they are said. When enabled, you choose the background color and fine tune opacity, roundness, x/y padding, and Wrap Height.

Use Wrap Height to keep the background tight to the current word height instead of using a consistent background height.

Animation

Word background animations control how each highlighted word's background appears. You can adjust the Intensity and Speed.

Types include Fade, Pop, Pop X, Pop Y, Slide Up, Slide Down, Slide Left, Slide Right, Zoom, Zoom X, Zoom Y, and None.