Highlighted-word captions colour the word being spoken, so the eye jumps to it. On a fast short-form clip, that one bright word is often what keeps someone watching.
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Heavy outlined yellow words where the spoken word flashes white as it pops in. Made for busy backgrounds.
A calmer line with a gold featured word, for clips that need emphasis without shouting.
Clean bold white captions with the spoken word picked out, a good everyday choice.
Live previews drawn by the editor's caption renderer on a sample frame. No upload needed.
Most short-form video is watched on a phone, often with the sound off. A highlight gives the viewer one place to look at any moment, which makes a caption line feel faster to read and gives your key words extra weight: a price, a result, the name of the thing you are showing.
Yellow is popular because it stays readable on almost any footage when the text has a dark outline. Gold and warm colours feel calmer. Whatever you choose, keep a strong difference between the highlighted word and the rest of the line, and keep the outline or background that stops white text vanishing on bright scenes.
In the editor, the Colour panel sets the spoken word and every other word separately, so you can match your brand colour while keeping the rest of the style.
A highlighted word changes colour inside a short line. Karaoke captions keep a longer phrase on screen with a highlight travelling across it, which suits reading along. Big Word Focus shows a single word at a time for maximum punch. All three are in the caption styles gallery.
Upload a clip and see your own words on screen before you create an account.