CaptionTrack
Turn your voice-over into word-timed captions: two clean lines, a karaoke highlight that follows the speaker, or a rounded pill.
A CaptionTrack is a Cook layer that shows a Captions object, the word-timed transcript of a sound, over the video. Preset picks Two Lines (outlined text), Karaoke (the spoken word lights up in HighlightColor) or Pill (a dark rounded plate sized to the text). Placement Bottom or Top keeps the words inside the title-safe area; Custom lets you place them by hand. Offset shifts the words in time. Right-click a Captions object, Add Caption layer, to make one.
Properties
Style
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highlight | boolean | false | Lights up the word being spoken in the Highlight Color, as the Karaoke preset does. |
| MaxLines | number | 2 1 to 6 | How many lines of words each caption page holds. |
| Plate | boolean | false | Puts the captions on a rounded dark plate sized to the text, as the Pill preset does. |
| TextColor | Color3 | 1, 1, 1 | |
| TextSize | number | 54 6 to 400 | |
| Font | FontContent | Properties window only | A font file for the captions in place of the default font. |
| HighlightColor | Color3 | 1, 0.824, 0.247 Properties window only | The colour the word being spoken lights up in when Karaoke Highlight is on. |
| PlateColor | Color3 | 0.071, 0.071, 0.094 Properties window only | |
| PlateTransparency | number | 0.2 Properties window only; 0 to 1 | |
| PlateRadius | number | 0.45 Properties window only; 0 to 1 | |
| StrokeSize | number | 0.08 Properties window only; 0 to 0.3 | |
| StrokeColor | Color3 | 0, 0, 0 Properties window only | |
| Bottom | number | 0.12 Properties window only; 0 to 0.9 | Where the text's bottom sits under Custom placement, measured up from the bottom of the box. |
| WidthFraction | number | 0.8 Properties window only; 0.1 to 1 | The longest a caption line may be, as a fraction of the width. |
Track
| Offset | number | 0 | Shifts the words in time: time inside the layer is the video time minus its In point plus Offset. |
Captions
| Placement | string | "Bottom" Bottom, Top, Custom | Bottom or Top puts the captions on the lower or upper title-safe line, keeping them inside the title-safe width. |
| Preset | string | "Two Lines" Two Lines, Karaoke, Pill | Picks the look: Two Lines, Karaoke with the spoken word lit up, or Pill with a rounded dark plate sized to the text. |
| Source | source | Properties window only | The Captions object whose words this layer shows over the video. |