Text Tool

The text tool is now your unified caption editor. It combines text editing and paragraph formatting in one place, so you can fix transcription, split or merge lines, and move words and blocks like you would in a regular document.

Text editor showing unified text and paragraph editing workflow

Paragraph controls are now part of the text tool.

How to edit caption text

  1. Click on the text tool icon in the toolbar.
  2. Click on the block of text you want to edit.
  3. Make your changes in the text editor using your keyboard.
  4. Edits are automatically applied.

You can use the Undo button or CTRL + z to revert your changes.

Edit like a document

The text editor behaves like a regular word doc:

  • Press Enter to start a new line inside the same caption block (a line break within that block).
  • Hold Shift and press Enter to send everything after the cursor into a new caption block with its own timing, instead of only adding a new line.
  • Press Backspace at the start of a block to merge with the previous block, or merge lines within a block as you edit.
  • Move words and lines naturally without switching tools.

Controlling the amount of lines

Use the Lines slider to increase or decrease the number of lines in each caption block.

Controlling the amount of characters

Use the Characters slider to control how many characters appear per line in each caption block.

Format captions

Use the Format Captions button to automatically format captions for readability. It reflows text using your line and character settings and can split on things like speaker changes, pauses, and punctuation so blocks stay easier to read.

Advanced formatting options

Next to Format Captions, click the three-dot (more) button to open Format Captions settings. There you can tune how automatic formatting behaves:

  • Split at speaker changes — start a new block when the speaker changes.
  • Split at time gaps — start a new block when there is a long enough pause in the transcript. Set Min gap (sec) for how long that pause must be (this value applies when time-gap splitting is on).
  • Split at punctuation — choose which marks should end a block (for example ., ,, !, and ? for Latin languages; Japanese, Chinese, and Korean transcripts include full-width punctuation; Arabic and related languages include marks such as the Arabic question mark). You can turn individual marks on or off.

Choices are saved for the next time you format or create captions in the extension.