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Burn in captions and change the frame

Make captions part of the picture, and reshape a video for social apps with a new frame size, crop or backdrop.

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  1. Burn in captions
  2. Change the frame size
  3. Add a backdrop

Every video already has captions viewers can turn on. Burned-in captions are different: they become part of the picture, so they show in downloads and on social apps that don't play caption files. In the same editor you can change the frame size, for example to vertical 9:16.

Burn in captions

  1. In the editor, open Captions in the tool rail.
  2. Turn on Burn captions into the video.
  3. Pick a Style: Boxed, Clean, Bold or Word by word, which lights up each word as it's spoken.
  4. Under Placement, choose a Position (Bottom, Middle or Top) and a Size.
  5. Click Save.

Click Set as default style to start new edits with the same caption style. Burned-in captions follow your cuts, and viewers can still turn on the regular captions.

Change the frame size

  1. Open Frame in the tool rail.
  2. Under Shape, choose Original, 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 or 4:5. Each shape says where it's used, such as "Shorts, Reels, TikTok".
  3. Under Fit, choose:
    • Show everything, with a Background of Blurred video, Ink or Light;
    • Fill and crop, then move Keep in view to keep the left, centre or right of the picture.
  4. Click Save.

Add a backdrop

Under Backdrop, pick a colour, a gradient or Blurred video to frame a screen recording on a background. Use Space around the video to set how much of the backdrop shows. Choose None to remove it.

Captions, frame and backdrop are all rendered into the video, so downloads include them.

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