# Subtitles

> The chip that only opens the panel, the pick that turns captions on, the ten looks, the six fonts beside Match style, and the file that does not come with the render.

Source: https://docs.kutly.io/settings/subtitles/

**Subtitles** are captions drawn into the video itself. The chip sits in the
second row on the composer, and it is there in both modes.

No subtitle file comes with the render, so there is nothing to upload alongside
the video.

## Turning them on

Clicking **Subtitles** opens the panel and does nothing else. The look you pick
inside is what turns captions on.

The row of font chips above the list turns nothing on. Only a look does.

A **×** appears beside the chip once captions are on. It turns them off and puts
the panel away with them.

Subtitles off means no captions in the video.

## The ten looks

Each row is a name and a running sample of it. The sample plays while the
pointer is on the row or it holds keyboard focus, and the row you picked plays
continuously. Nothing is ticked until you pick, and picking leaves the panel
open, so you can put one look against another.

Four draw standing sentence text, changing a line at a time:

- **Clean** — plain outlined text, with the word being spoken picked out in
  colour.
- **Marker** — the same, with the spoken word sitting on a coloured marker
  instead.
- **Boxed** — the text sits on a dark panel rather than being outlined, and the
  spoken word is picked out in colour.
- **Lift** — serif text that lifts into place, with no word picked out.

Six are driven by the narration's word timings, and how many words stand on
screen at once is part of the look:

- **Word** — one word at a time, held still.
- **Pop** — one word at a time, each popping in.
- **TikTok** — three words at a time, popping in, the spoken one in colour.
- **Rolling** — six words at a time, held still, the spoken one in colour.
- **Hype** — one word at a time in condensed capitals, the largest type of the
  ten, each landing with a tilt, the colour alternating word to word.
- **Chunk** — three words at a time in heavy type on a dark panel, sliding up.

**Screenshot to add:** The subtitle panel: a row of font chips led by the word Font, each chip written in the font it names and Match style outlined at the start, and under it the ten looks in two columns of five — each row its name, the motion it uses under the name, and a running sample of itself beside them.

## The font

A row of chips across the top of the panel, led by the word **Font**, sets the
font every sample is drawn in. Change it and all ten redraw.

Seven chips: **Match style**, then **Inter**, **Roboto**, **Bebas Neue**,
**Poppins**, **Lora** and **Satoshi**, each written in the font it names. Any of
the six goes with any of the ten looks.

**Match style** is where the row starts, and it is not a font. Each look is
drawn around a particular one — **Lift** on a serif, **Hype** on condensed
capitals — and **Match style** keeps it, overriding nothing. That chip is
written in whichever font the look you have picked would use.

## Where the look comes from

The caption layer is built from the look and the font you set here. A **Style
pack** is not one of its inputs, so a render keeps the captions you picked
whichever pack it carries. For what a pack does set, see
[Visual style](https://docs.kutly.io/settings/visual-style/).