Create captions and control linking, fixed text and style

Select Captions in the toolbar. Choose all avatars or selected avatars, review position and style, then Generate. The readable-timing option adjusts caption entry and ending. Leave a clear area away from faces and material.

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   Action Choose which avatars to caption.
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   Check Review the style preview.
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   Action Click Generate.

Select a caption clip to see its source speech and time in Properties. Linked captions follow speech, timing and translation changes. Fixed captions have manually edited text. The screenshot shows an example shortened by hand.

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   Check Check Fixed or Linked

Editing the caption text fixes that clip. For example, shorten a greeting to “Multilingual video for your exhibition product explanations.” This does not change the spoken audio. Review fixed captions yourself after later dialogue edits.

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   Enter Edit displayed text

Restore linking returns the caption to the source speech. It does not preserve the manual summary, so retain any wording you need first. Text length and wrapping may change; review readability afterward.

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   Action Restore source text

Choose a presentation such as standard captions, spoken-word highlighting or emphasized text. After adjusting size, position and effects, Apply this appearance to all captions shares the appearance within the same track. It is not an all-project operation across other tracks.

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   Action Apply to this track

Text and timing are separate

Changing the presentation does not make every caption share the same text or timing. Also inspect link state.

Leave space for faces and material

Large centered captions may overlap material. Review long text and each translated language.

Select the caption track and use Rebuild captions to open generation settings. Review scope and the option to rebuild existing tracks while retaining manually edited captions. Add text places independent text; use the caption workflow when speech-linked text is needed.

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   Action Choose which avatars to caption.
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   Check Review the style preview.
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   Action Click Generate.

Play the sequence and check captions that disappear too quickly or extend beyond the frame. Instead of only shrinking text, shorten the wording or split speech into meaningful sections. Recheck wrapping and fixed captions in each language.

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   Action Click near the beginning of the ruler.
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   Action Click the triangular Play button.
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   Check Check Saved.