Animations and Sparks

An Animation is a caption design: font, weight, size, tracking, spacing, alignment and colour. Pick one and every caption wearing it changes together. Position and Sparks are set for the run, so they stay outside the design. Lite includes every Primary Animation; the Special Animations come with Pro and Max.

Primary

The look most captions use. Select more than one and Shuffle alternates them.

Hook

The short opening line Cast writes for a clip, with its own type and position.

Special

A larger, louder caption for the moments that matter, with its own sound effects. Pro and Max.

Animations

Under Subs > Text, this row opens the Primary and Special lists and the Formations.

Switch Animation

Press S over a caption, or open its Animation menu, to restyle only the captions you selected.

A selected caption

Its style rows change that caption alone.

Font

Any installed family, plus the bundled ones.

Style

Every weight and italic the family installs.

Size

The caption's text size against the frame.

Tracking

Letter spacing, from tight to open.

Spacing

The gap between lines and between stacked captions.

Align

Left, Center or Right: the edge the text sits on.

Position

Where captions sit in the frame.

Set for the run

Color

The caption colour.

Accent

The colour highlighted words use, and the one Transitions plates and Flare cards follow.

Advanced opens the Primary, Highlight and Special typography. Highlight and Special follow Primary until you change a value.

Glow

A soft glow behind the text, with Size and Gain.

Shadow

Up to three shadow passes behind the letters.

Stretch

Widens or heightens the text without changing the typeface.

Links

Pairs neighboring captions so one fades out as the next fades in.

Shake

A small shake on every caption.

Paper

Roughens the edges like printed paper.

Jitter

Redraws the letters like hand-drawn lettering.

Stop Motion

Repeats frames for a stuttered, long-exposure feel.

Sound Effects sits in the Edit card: it plays a sound on each word, and a Special caption can play its own as it appears.

Stretch and Sound Effects need Pro or Max. The rest are on every plan.

Bake as Animation

In Settings > Editing, the Animations row's plus bakes the comp open on Resolve's Fusion page. Name it, choose Primary or Special, and it joins the pickers.

The Animations folder

The folder button opens where your saved Animations live.

Memory

The Animation you use and your workflow choices stay with the project.

A saved Animation shows under Custom in its list, ready for any caption.

• Ignite: captions and polish in one pass

  Where the look lands.

• Shuffle: Length and Formations

  What changes the rhythm the Animations play at.

• Captions: generate and edit

  The text and breaks an Animation has to fit.