Caption styles that preview with your own words

2026-07-13 · 4 min read

Captions carry short-form video: most people watch muted, and the caption style is half the feel of the edit. TailorClip ships nine named caption looks — from the default Elevated Green pop-up word to Karaoke, Beasty's scale-bounce, Highlight Box's sliding pill, Orange Heat, and Big White — plus a clean off switch.

Preview with your words, not ours

Here's the detail we're proud of: hover any style card in the Studio and it animates with the opening words of your own video — the actual first line from your transcript, moving the way the burned-in captions will move. You're not imagining how "Karaoke" would look on your footage; you're watching it.

Tune everything that renders

• ✦Highlight color — auto (brightness-aware), yellow, green, red, or white.
• ✦Size — small, medium, large.
• ✦Position — lower, bottom, or a custom height slider.
• ✦Word fixes — captions read from your transcript, so a double-click word fix flows straight into them.

And for power users: caption systems

Advanced mode exposes the caption system itself — how words are grouped and animated: karaoke chunks, one word at a time, sentence + keyword, all-white block, three-color, or two-tier text. Style changes apply through a fast caption-only re-render, so trying a look doesn't mean re-rendering the whole video.