Use a different caption text

The caption text is set under Caption (テロップ) inside each line’s Details. The figure shows Details opened on line 2 of slide 1.

1. 1Click Details on the line whose caption you want to change.
2. 2Find the Caption row. It starts as Same as spoken text, so the spoken text is shown as the caption. Clicking it reveals a field for the caption text.

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1. 1
   Action Click Details on the line whose caption you want to change.
2. 2
   Check Find the Caption row. It starts as Same as spoken text, so the spoken text is shown as the caption. Clicking it reveals a field for the caption text.

Check The next figure shows a caption changed on a line of slide 3.

The spoken text and the on-screen caption can differ. On slide 3, one line was written in kana for pronunciation, so we changed only its caption to the abbreviation SSO.

1. 1Check the spoken text. This line is written the way it is pronounced.
2. 2Click Details at the lower right of the line, then click Same as spoken on the Caption row. A caption field appears; untick Same as spoken to its left.
3. 3Type the text to show on screen in the caption field and press Tab. In the example we entered the sentence with the abbreviation SSO.

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1. 1
   Check Check the spoken text. This line is written the way it is pronounced.
2. 2
   Action Click Details at the lower right of the line, then click Same as spoken on the Caption row. A caption field appears; untick Same as spoken to its left.
3. 3
   Enter Type the text to show on screen in the caption field and press Tab. In the example we entered the sentence with the abbreviation SSO.

Check Below the field, the screen notes that the caption uses this text while narration uses the spoken text above. Changing only the caption does not recreate the narration; the line stayed at 6.0 seconds in the example.

Whether captions use one or two lines is a setting for the whole video, found under Captions in Parameter settings at the upper right.

1. 1Check Lines: two here. The choices are the template default, one line and two lines.

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   Check Check Lines: two here. The choices are the template default, one line and two lines.

Check For long sentences, check in the preview that the caption fits in two lines. If not, split the line or shorten only the caption.

Captions decided in the studio appear in the track editor as one clip per line on the top Captions row. The figure shows the editor opened after finishing.

1. 1Check the clips on the Captions row. Each is labelled as a linked caption at 40px and follows the length of its audio clip.
2. 2The Caption band row below is the black band behind the captions.

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1. 1
   Check Check the clips on the Captions row. Each is labelled as a linked caption at 40px and follows the length of its audio clip.
2. 2
   Check The Caption band row below is the black band behind the captions.

Check You can also edit caption clips in the editor; see the Subtitles guide under Basic operations for details.