Captions, talking and sound on the sheet

A scene sheet and a shot’s sheet have a Captions lane and a Sounds lane, and every fig’s lane takes Talks and Look at blocks. See The dope sheet . The Story page’s bubbles, captions and titles stay as they are. See Words in a clip .

The Captions lane

Tap + on the Captions lane. A caption block comes in at 3 seconds. Drag it to any moment and stretch it to any length. Its card has Words and Style:

Caption: A dark box at the bottom centre, the closed-caption way.
Title card: Big words in the middle of the frame, for a place or a time.
Note: Small words in a corner. Corner is Top left, Top right, Bottom left or Bottom right.
Typewriter: The words type on over the block.

Captions print in every video and GIF. Once a shot has captions, Share your clip gets a Captions row with On and Off. A Camera video with no clip always prints them. On Home, the captions draw over the scene’s picture. A caption block takes Then, not On touch.

Talks

On a fig’s lane, the block picker has Talks and Look at under Words. Talks opens the fig’s mouth with the loudness of the sound and shuts it in the gaps. The block reads Talks · [the caption’s words] once it points at a caption.

Width: The mouth’s opening, in steps.
Speed: Snappy or Soft.
Mouth: Its own mouth for a fig with a jaw rig or a Lip sync skin, and Lip sync skin on a fig with one. A fig with neither reads The whole fig and squashes a little instead. See Lip sync .
Follows: Every sound on the Sounds lanes, or one sound. The Soundtrack never moves a mouth.
Caption: A caption block on the Captions lane. The two then share one span and drag together.

The mouth moves the same way on the stage, in the video, in a GIF and under a dragged playhead.

Look at

Look at turns the fig’s head to the Camera or to a named fig, easing in and out, for the length of the block. The block reads Look at Camera or Look at [fig]. The turn stops at 80 degrees. A fig with no head part turns whole. While Talks or Look at runs, the part’s own loop gives way.

Idle

A fig’s lane menu has Idle: Breathe and blink or Still. With Breathe and blink, the fig breathes a little and blinks while it has no block, so it never stands frozen. It starts on, on a sheet only. A prop with no moving parts stays still until you pick it. All shots applies the pick to that fig in every shot of the clip.

The Sounds lane

Each sound block shows its waveform. Add lane › Sounds lane adds a second track, Sounds 2, so narration plays beside the scene’s sounds.

A block’s card has Trim, Volume, Fade in, Fade out and Voice. The block’s left end trims the start along its row.
Block edges snap to other blocks, whole seconds and the loud parts of the waveform.
Drag the playhead: the frame shows on the stage and that slice of sound plays.
Record: The mic records while the sheet plays, so narration lands in time. The card reads Recording. The sheet plays. Stop ends it. The take lands at the start of the lane as Voice. One Undo removes the take, with any captions it made.
From your files: A sound file on the lane.

With the mic off, the card reads Mic off. Turn it on in Settings. On a phone, Record is in the lane’s + menu, and the lane’s name stays.

Caption as I speak

The Record card has a Caption as I speak switch. With it on, your phone’s own speech recognizer runs beside the mic and drops your words into timed caption blocks on the Captions lane as you say them. Fix a word in the block’s Words. Your voice stays on your phone. On Android, a missing language model downloads in the background, and the switch shows at the next start. A phone with no recognizer shows no switch, and Record works as before.

The trims and fades play in the video’s sound, and the captions print in it. See Sharing a clip .