Karaoke captions: the line fills with yellow as it's said

The whole caption goes up at once, in white capitals with a black outline, and a yellow fill sweeps through each word over the time it takes to say it. A slow word fills slowly, a quick one in a flash, so the fill follows the rhythm of the voice. These are often called karaoke captions.

In scripts written right to left, like Arabic and Hebrew, a sweep would run backwards through the word, so each word fills all at once as it's said instead. See it on the Arabic captions page.

• Stories and slower talk, where seeing the whole line helps people follow, and the fill keeps the pace.
• Motivational and spoken-word clips, where the rhythm of the voice is half the point.
• A change from Pop on an account that posts a lot, so clips don't all look the same.

On Pro and Studio, save up to 10 caption styles of your own: start from any of the 5, then choose the font (Poppins, Montserrat, Anton, Bebas Neue, Archivo Black or Bangers), the colors, the size and how high the captions sit. They show beside the built-in styles when you start a video or edit a clip.

Your styles carry your font into every language with letters it has; for other scripts, the captions fall back to the matching Noto Sans font, so nothing turns into empty boxes.

Compare all 5 on the preview above, or read about each. Every style works in every language: see captions in every language.

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