Words in a clip
Add words to a clip and style them.
+ Story on a shot’s card adds words (bubbles, captions, or titles) to that shot. Words are saved with the clip, not the scene.
Adding words
Select + Story to open the shot’s story page (e.g., Story on Shot 2). Add text by selecting + Bubble, + Caption, or + Title. Type up to 160 characters. The text shows in the view as you type. Press Enter for a new line; the box grows to four lines. The title box reads Title until you change it. Shots with words show the first text’s opening words on their chip, with +N for the others.
One shot can hold several texts. The list runs top to bottom. Use the up and down arrows to change the order, and ✕ to delete one. During playback, texts show in turn: the shot’s length is split evenly among them, and they show one after another, each in its own slot. Captions and titles stay on screen once they show. Only the newest bubble stays. Captions are plain on-screen text. To record your voice, use + Narration in the Clip organizer. See Sound in a clip .
The rows
- Style (bubble): Sets the bubble’s shape (Game, Manga, Thought, or Shout). Game is a plain text box. Manga, Thought, and Shout are speech bubbles with pointing tails.
- Style (caption): Classic or Subtitles. Subtitles shows white letters centered near the bottom of the frame, up to three lines (a long caption gets smaller letters), with a faint dark band behind each line. A Back color tints the band; Back on None swaps the band for a thin dark outline. A Who name comes first on the line. Picking Subtitles switches Shows to All at once.
- Tail (Manga, Thought, Shout): Sets which way the tail points (Left or Right).
- Who: An optional name for who’s talking (max 16 characters). Shows as a tab on the top edge of Game bubbles.
- Place (bubble): Gives a ring in the view to set where the bubble sits on screen.
- Size (title): Sets the text size (Small, Normal, Big).
- Shows: Sets how the text appears (Typewriter shows one letter at a time; All at once shows it all right away).
- Font: A menu of fonts. Starts on Classic, followed by 25 other fonts.
- Color: Picks the text color from swatches, or stays on Classic.
- Back: Picks the color behind the text from swatches. Starts on Classic. Set to None for a see-through back.
Titles and bare captions
Titles show your text with the font’s normal spacing. When Font is on Classic, the font is Kosugi Maru. When Color is on Classic, the text is cream (#FFF5E4). The letters have a thin, flat outline in a darker shade of the text color. Picking your own Color gives an outline in a matching shade (dark text gets a light outline). Classic-style captions with Back set to None look the same way, in their own font.
In a caption, starting a line with > makes it a choice, shown with a ▸. Type each choice on its own line.
Words are drawn into video and GIF exports for good and stay in shared community clips.