PricingCaptions are often the first thing people read and the last thing an editor fixes. This update gives your brief the final word on them. Shorty now follows the caption copy and rules you write, keeps every word inside the frame, and checks the captions over the finished picture before your edit is delivered.
Your Words, Your Rules
Captions start from what’s said in your footage. Now your brief outranks the transcript. If you want a roar, a chant or a sound written out on screen, or a word the transcript missed or mangled, write it in your brief and Shorty puts it on screen as you typed it.
Caption rules in your brief are requirements, not suggestions: how many words appear at once, upper or lower case, where captions may sit, when they appear, and different treatments for different parts of the video.
Said Once, Shown Once
Spoken words now live in one caption layer. A headline or graphic won’t repeat the line someone is saying, so viewers don’t read the same phrase twice. Titles, labels and numbers your brief asks for still appear, styled apart from the captions.
Checked Before Delivery
Before your edit is delivered, Shorty looks at the captions on top of the finished picture. Are they readable? Do they cover a face? Does a phrase appear twice? Do they follow the rules in your brief? If something’s off, the captions are reworked and checked again.
One long word can’t run off the screen anymore either. A word wider than its space, like a stretched-out “RAAAAAA,” now shrinks just enough to fit, while every other caption keeps its size.
More in This Update
Japanese, Korean and Chinese captions
Some edits that set captions in Japanese, Korean or Chinese fonts could fail to render. They now render as expected.
Steadier tracking across cuts
Graphics that follow a subject now ignore one-off misreadings of where it is, and at a hard cut they jump with the picture instead of sliding across the frame.
Poster captions with depth
Six new title and caption styles: five give letters real volume, with versions that glow, float, sway or drift, and one sets a flat white word in a warm amber halo.
Phone clips that upload
Some phone videos and screen recordings were refused on upload for an impossible frame rate, even though they were ordinary footage. Shorty now reads the rate a clip was actually captured at, so they upload normally.
Good to know
How do I add my own caption words?
Write them in your brief with where they belong, for example “caption the crowd’s chant as GO GO GO.” Shorty puts them on screen exactly as written.
Can I limit how many words appear at once?
Yes. Say it in your brief, for example “no more than three words on screen at a time.” Shorty treats it as a requirement and checks it before delivery.
Write the captions you want to see. Shorty will hold itself to them.
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