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Format caption text in Final Cut Pro

You can change the style and formatting of caption text using the inspector. The CEA-608, iTT, and SRT caption standards have varying specifications for text, placement, colour, transitions, and then on.

The viewer and the Caption inspector showing caption text formatting controls

Format the text in CEA-608 captions

Select one or more CEA-608 caption clips in the Concluding Cutting Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, do one of the following:
- Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
- Click the Inspector push button on the right side of the toolbar.
The Caption inspector appears, showing caption text formatting controls for the CEA-608 format.
If you selected a unmarried caption and want to format just a portion of it, select the portion of the caption text that you want to format in the Text field.
To select an alignment style for captions with multiple lines of text, click an Alignment push button.

Y'all can centre the text or align it to the left or right.
To place captions within the allowable area in the video frame, click a Placement push button.

You can motility the explanation left, right, upwardly, or down; move the caption to the left, right, top, or bottom margin; and middle the caption horizontally.
To set the style of transitions between captions, click the Display Style pop-up card and choose an option:
- Pop-On: No transition (a simple cutting between captions).
- Paint-On: Starting with the topmost line of text, each line of text in the explanation is revealed from left to right, one at a time.
- Gyre-Upward: Each line of text in the caption is revealed at the lesser of the screen using the Pigment-On manner, and is so blithe upwardly to make room for the adjacent line of text.
  
  If you lot choose the Ringlet-Up fashion, a Lines pop-up bill of fare appears. Cull how many lines of text to show at once in the Roll-Up style: 2, iii, or iv lines.
  
  If a serial of abutting captions are set to either the Pigment-On or the Roll-Upwards way, their edit points in the timeline become through edits, indicating that the captions will interact. In the example below, all the captions are set to the Curl-Up manner. The 2nd caption will push button the first caption up, the third caption will push the second explanation upwardly, and and so on. You can make roll edits on the through edit points to precisely control when the next caption begins to appear.
To change caption text to the italic or underline manner, click a Formatting button.
To change the colour of explanation text, click a Text Color button.

You tin can select i of eight predefined colors.
To set the opacity of the caption text background, click a Text Background Opacity push button.

Y'all can make the background transparent, semitransparent, or opaque.
To set up the caption text background color, click a Text Background Colour push.

You tin select one of eight predefined colors.

At the lesser of the Explanation inspector, you can view information most the selected caption or captions:

Timing: Displays beginning and end times and duration if you selected a single caption.
Validation: Displays an error message if the selection does not conform to the specifications of the CEA-608 caption format, or displays a green checkmark if no problems are detected.

Note: Styling and formatting caption text tin add invisible formatting tags, which may cause captions to exceed the limit of 32 characters per line.

Format the text in iTT captions

Select one or more than iTT caption clips in the Last Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, do i of the following:
- Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or printing Command-4).
- Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
The inspector appears, showing caption text formatting controls for the iTT format.
If you selected a single caption and want to format just a portion of information technology, select the portion of the explanation text that you want to format in the Caption Text field.
To alter caption text to the bold, italic, or underline way, click a Formatting button.
To change the color of caption text, click the Text Color colour well to open the Colors window, or click the downward arrow to open up a pop-up color palette.

Come across Basic color controls in Final Cut Pro and Employ the pop-upward colour palette in Final Cut Pro.
To place captions at the height or bottom of the video frame, click a Placement push.

For certain languages with vertical writing, the iTT format allows vertical text on the left and correct margins, as well as upward to four regions of text on the screen at the same time (top, bottom, left, and correct).

At the bottom of the Caption inspector, you tin view information near the selected caption or captions:

Timing: Displays starting time and end times and duration if you selected a single caption.
Validation: Displays an error bulletin if the option does not conform to the specifications of the iTT caption format, or displays a green checkmark if no issues are detected.

Format the text in SRT captions

Of import: Because of the absence of text formatting specifications in the SRT standard, any formatting style (such as bold, italic, or underline) that y'all apply to SRT captions in Final Cut Pro may not appear correctly in your intended role player or playback device. For this reason, y'all tin can choose to remove all text formatting from SRT captions when you consign or share them. See Export captions with Final Cut Pro.

Select one or more than SRT caption clips in the Last Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, practice i of the following:
- Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).
- Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
The inspector appears, showing explanation text formatting controls for the SRT format.
If you selected a single explanation and want to format just a portion of it, select the portion of the explanation text that you want to format in the Caption Text field.
To change caption text to the bold, italic, or underline style, click a Formatting push button.
To modify the colour of caption text, click the Text Colour color well to open the Colors window, or click the down arrow to open up a pop-up colour palette.

See Basic color controls in Final Cut Pro and Employ the pop-upward color palette in Concluding Cut Pro.

At the bottom of the Explanation inspector, you can view information most the selected caption or captions:

Timing: Displays kickoff and end times and elapsing if you selected a single caption.
Validation: Displays an error message if the selection does not suit to the specifications of the SRT explanation format, or displays a green checkmark if no bug are detected.

Save or apply the default fashion

Select i or more than caption clips in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, exercise ane of the following:
- Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Control-4).
- Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.
In the Caption inspector, click the popular-upward menu to the far correct of the Display heading and choose one of the following:
- Save Style as Default: Saves the current text style as the default setting.
- Apply Default Mode: Applies the default text style to the selected captions.
- Reset Default Way: Resets the default text mode to the original setting.

Add multiple text fields to CEA-608 captions

You can split a CEA-608 caption into multiple fields. For case, if two people are speaking at the same time, you can create a text field for each speaker. Each caption can have upward to four fields, and you can format each field independently of the others.

CEA-608 captions are limited to four lines, but you lot can distribute the lines in any combination. For case, a caption could have iii lines in one field and 1 line in a second field, or it could have 4 fields with one line each.

Select a CEA-608 caption clip in the Concluding Cutting Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, do ane of the following:
- Choose Window > Evidence in Workspace > Inspector (or press Control-iv).
- Click the Inspector button on the correct side of the toolbar.
Click the pop-up menu to the far correct of the Caption Text heading, then cull Add together Text Field.
Enter text for the second field in the boosted Caption Text section that appears in the inspector.

Every bit you blazon, the text appears in a new field in the viewer.
To position the new text field in the video frame, click a Placement push.
Use the text formatting controls in the Display section to arrange the look of the text in the new field.

See Format the text in CEA-608 captions.
To add additional text fields, repeat steps iii through 6.

To remove a text field, click the pop-up bill of fare to the far right of the Caption Text heading for that field, then choose Remove Text Field.

Add special characters to CEA-608 captions

Yous can add special characters (such as the trademark symbol or the degree symbol) to CEA-608 captions.

Select a CEA-608 caption clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
To open the Caption inspector, practice one of the post-obit:
- Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or printing Command-four).
- Click the Inspector push on the right side of the toolbar.
In the Caption inspector, position the insertion bespeak in the Text field where y'all want the special grapheme to announced.
Click the pop-upwardly menu to the far right of the Explanation Text heading, choose Special Characters, then cull the graphic symbol from the submenu.