An eight-word caption where each word pops in turn as a highlight moves behind it, for one key line.
Use it for the one sentence in a talking-head clip that viewers should not miss. Two plates slide in, the words appear, then each one pops in order while a coloured highlight travels along behind them. Type your line into Word 1 to Word 8, one word per field, and pick a Highlight colour that reads against both the plates and your footage. Short words keep the plates from crowding.
Put one word in each field from Word 1 to Word 8, keeping the full stop on the last word as the default does. Line the overlay up in your editor so the words pop as you say them. A bright Highlight colour holds up best over busy footage.
Caption Highlight is built at 640 × 360, a 16:9 landscape frame, the shape of a YouTube video, a stream layout and most editing timelines, and runs 4 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 0.6 seconds, holds for 2.7 and clears in 0.7, so cue it a beat before the moment it labels. Export it as an MP4 for a timeline or a feed, a GIF where video will not embed, or a MOV with an alpha channel to lay it over footage with nothing behind it. Renders go up to 4K on a paid plan. The free plan shows a watermarked preview.
Each word, from Word 1 to Word 8, and the Highlight colour.
640 x 360, a 16:9 overlay with a transparent background, so it sits over your footage. It lasts 4 seconds.
