Making a “Custom Caption Style” will save you crazy time making all your videos have the same look.
" All right. I'm gonna use the Captions app to take a piece of footage, and I'm gonna show you how I did all these different little steps. So you're seeing on my phone here, I'm selecting a video and I am choosing it, and I'm clicking a button that says Proceed with magic. So it's just gonna sit there and load up my video.
It's gonna take everything that I said in that video. Turn all of the audio into individual words that then I can animate. I could change the styling, I could do a lot of stuff. So that's the magic that it's talking about when it says that it's making the magic. So as soon as it loads back here on the screen, I'm gonna get to take control of it.
And the first thing that I'm gonna want to do, Is make sure that my video is in the correct format. So that means basically I can choose it to be in a square where I can choose it to be vertical or in landscape. And the app is just gonna allow me to load in whatever content I already have. In this case, it's vertical and I can align the text to look the best way.
I can also go back and change the format so I can make it in multiple ways. So anyway, I'm back in the app now. I clicked to edit the style. So there's all these different styles that I can choose from, and I have a custom style that's like a template that I have saved, and all of my videos use that so I don't have to go through all the steps of adding all those, uh, the different looks, the, the stroke, the color of the text, all of that, or even the highlight color.
I have a highlight color that I can choose, not like to use like a bright yellow pop color. And so after I've got my style, I can resize it, I can move it around and make sure that it's at the right width. And I said that this was vertical. It's actually not, this is all showing vertical cuz I'm working on my phone.
But the video that I was doing, the format was landscape, which is very weird cuz I almost never do landscape videos here on Twitter. Anyway, you could see that I've selected the yellow pop color and now I can go back. And I can choose which, which word that I have in there is highlighted with that yellow pop color.
I can also drag it around and make sure that I, I've got the size the right way. There's all these different settings. I can choose it to just show one sentence all at a time or one word all at a time. Or in this case, it's actually showing one word at a time, but then it's building out the sentence. So, There's a lot of cool features that captions has, and, uh, I generally don't see people walking you through how or why they did the things that they did, so I hope that helps.
If you have questions, put 'em below. Share this out to somebody who's making some web three content that you think could benefit from using captions. Right. See you tomorrow."
Wow, that's a really insightful step-by-step guide on how to use the Captions app to enhance videos with automated subtitles. It definitely makes videos more accessible and can improve viewer engagement, as people can understand your content even if they can't have the sound on. The fact that you can customize the appearance of the captions, from the color to the size, and even highlight specific words, is a great feature. This allows content creators to make sure the captions match the style of their video, making the overall presentation more professional and cohesive. Your guide also highlights the importance of consistency across your videos using a custom template, which helps in building brand identity. Looking forward to learning more from your daily video-making tips tomorrow! If anyone has further questions about the process, it's a great idea to leave them in the comments. And as you said, sharing this knowledge with others who could benefit is a fantastic way to support fellow content creators.
