What's New in Visuals
Lyric captions used to be one look. One line of the song at a time, with a few highlight effects on top.
Now your captions are 4 separate choices, and you make each one on its own. How the words are arranged. What each word does as it arrives. How the whole block of text moves. What the words do on the way out.
And every option plays right there in the panel, so you can watch it before you apply it.
4 choices, not 1
Open a lyric video in the video editor and the caption style panel now has 4 pickers:
Layout. How much of the song is on screen, and how it is arranged.
Motion. What each word does as it arrives.
Container motion. How the whole caption block moves while the words play.
Exit. What the words do on the way out.
They are independent, and they run at the same time. A single line with Pop on each word can also have the whole line slowly breathing, then wiping away when it ends. Change any one of those without touching the others.
That is where the range comes from. 6 layouts, 15 motions, 16 container motions and 9 exits, mixed freely, is a very large number of looks.
Nothing you already made changes. Every lyric video you built before this renders exactly the way it did. Your captions keep their look unless you go and change them yourself.
Layout: how the words sit on screen
There are 6 layouts. 5 of them are new.
Single Line. One line of the song at a time. This is the look you already have, and it is still the default.
Word by Word. One big word at a time, scaled up. The look people know from short-form social video.
Multi-Word. 2 or 3 words at a time, paging forward through the line.
Karaoke Stack. 4 lines at once. The line being sung is bright, the ones around it are dimmed, and the whole stack drifts upward as the song moves.
Vertical Stack. One word per line, stacked down the screen.
Mixed Size. A single line where individual words are scaled up and down against each other, so the words that matter hit harder.
Motion: what each word does as it arrives
There are 15 motions now. Pop, Glow, Pulse, Underline and Bump are all still there. Here are the 10 new ones, grouped by what they actually look like.
Letters that assemble. Typewriter puts the letters in one after another. Scramble churns them, then settles into the word. Letter Shuffle lands them out of order and shuffles them into place. Slot Machine spins each letter on its own vertical reel until it locks.
Words that arrive. Bounce Drop springs in from above and settles. Mask Reveal wipes the words in. Wave lifts and drops the letters one after another, like a wave through a crowd.
Color. Glitch is a split-color flicker. Chromatic cycles the color as the words play.
And None, for static text with no movement at all.
Container motion: the whole block moves
This one is brand new, and it is the part worth playing with. Everything above happens to the words. Container motion happens to the whole caption block, and it runs underneath whatever your words are doing. There are 16 of them, grouped by how strong they are.
Subtle. 6 of them: slow zoom in, slow zoom out, breathe, hover, drift left, drift right. Barely there. Enough to stop a still frame from feeling flat.
Medium. 3 of them: parallax up, parallax down, tilt sway. Strong enough to read as a camera move.
Wild. 3 of them: swing, wobble, bounce loop. Big and obvious. Good for a chorus.
Unconventional. 3 of them: CRT flicker, freeze punch, kaleidoscope drift. Broken-screen and stutter looks.
Plus None, if you want the block to sit still.
Exit: how the words leave
There are 9 exits. Cut, fade, slide up, slide down, zoom out and blur fade are still there. 3 are new: Wipe Right, Wipe Left, and Shatter, which breaks the words apart and dissolves them.
Watch it before you apply it
Before, you picked an effect from a plain dropdown, applied it, and played the video back to find out what you had chosen. If it was wrong, you did it again.
Now all 4 pickers are grids of tiles, and every tile plays its own animation on the spot. You watch the options side by side, then commit.
Finding the right template
The template gallery has a search box and a category filter, so you can go straight to the one you want. You can sort it too: featured order, name A to Z, name Z to A, or by category.
A background behind a single line
You can put a background behind an individual caption line. Handy when the words land on a busy part of the video and get hard to read.
Generations that stalled now finish
Before, an image or video generation could stall and just sit there. No result, no error, nothing to do but start it over.
Now they finish. And if one does get stuck, it gets picked up and cleared on its own, so you are not left watching a spinner that will never move. The same goes for lyric videos.
Also fixed
Two crashes while editing lyrics. Both are fixed.
Uploading a video to My Library. The file picker was asking for the wrong kind of file. It asks for video files again.