Applying caption formatting
Learn how to apply styles and positioning to your captions
CaptionHub’s in-editor caption formatting panel offers a comprehensive set of options to customise font styles, colours, positioning, and more for individual captions, individual tracks or across your entire project.
The formatting you apply here will be reflecting in the look and feel of your burnt-in subtitles.
Accessing caption formatting
To format captions:
- Open your project and click into the caption set you want to format
- Click on the caption you want to format
- Select the ‘Format captions’ (paintbrush) icon from the menu or use the keyboard shortcut
ctrl + eorcommand + e
- The caption formatting panel will open
Customising caption styles
Font Settings
- Font face: Select your preferred font from the dropdown menu. If you have any custom fonts, these should appear here.
- Font colour: Click the colour square to open the colour picker, or enter a hex code directly
- Font size: Adjust the size using the slider or enter a specific value in pixels
- Text justification: Choose between left-aligned, centred, or right-aligned text
Background Settings
- Add background: Enable this checkbox to add a background behind your captions
- Background transparency: Control the transparency of the background using the slider (0% = fully transparent, 100% = fully opaque)
- Background colour: Select a colour for the caption background
Outline Settings
- Add outline: Enable this checkbox to add an outline to your caption text
- Outline colour: Select a colour for the caption outline
Positioning your captions
- Horizontal position: Adjust the horizontal placement of your caption using the slider or enter a specific percentage value
- Vertical position: Set the vertical placement using the slider or enter a specific percentage value
- Anchor point: Choose the anchor point for your caption e.g. if horizontal position and vertical position are both 50%, selecting ‘top’ will place the top edge of your caption in the centre of the video. Selecting ‘middle’ will place the middle of your caption in the centre.
Using numpad positions
You can also position your captions in one of nine pre-determined ‘numpad’ positions.
Selecting one of these positions will override any fine-tuned positioning you have set in the caption formatting panel i.e. horizontal position, vertical position, anchor point.
It will also affect the text justification.
Applying your formatting
Once you’re happy with the formatting, you can use the ‘Apply format to’ dropdown to apply it to:
- This caption only
- All captions
- All track one (T1) captions
- All track two (T2) captions
You can also choose to apply just the style, just the position or both:
