Open a lyric video in the video editor and the caption style panel gives you 4 separate choices, all running at the same time. Change any one without touching the others.
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.
Every option is a tile that plays its own animation in place, so you can see it before you apply it.
Nothing you already made changes. Lyric videos built before this render exactly as before, and keep their look unless you change them.
Layout: 6 options
Single Line. One line of the song at a time. The default.
Word by Word. One big word at a time, scaled up. The short form social look.
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 others dimmed, and the stack drifts upward as the song moves.
Vertical Stack. One word per line, stacked down the screen.
Mixed Size. A single line where words are scaled up and down against each other.
Motion: 15 options
Emphasis: Pop, Glow, Pulse, Underline, Bump.
Letters that assemble: Typewriter, Scramble, Letter Shuffle, Slot Machine.
Words that arrive: Bounce Drop, Mask Reveal, Wave.
Color: Glitch, Chromatic.
Plus None for static text.
Container motion: 16 options
Runs underneath whatever the words are doing.
Subtle: slow zoom in, slow zoom out, breathe, hover, drift left, drift right.
Medium: parallax up, parallax down, tilt sway. Strong enough to read as a camera move.
Wild: swing, wobble, bounce loop. Good for a chorus.
Unconventional: CRT flicker, freeze punch, kaleidoscope drift.
None. The block sits still.
Exit: 9 options
Cut, fade, slide up, slide down, zoom out, blur fade, Wipe Right, Wipe Left, and Shatter, which breaks the words apart and dissolves them.
Combining them
A Single Line layout with Pop on each word can also have the whole line slowly breathing, then wiping away when it ends. Some combinations that work:
Clean release visual: Single Line, Pop, slow zoom in, fade.
TikTok: Word by Word, Bounce Drop, none, cut.
Singalong: Karaoke Stack, Glow, hover, fade.
Edgy: Mixed Size, Glitch, CRT flicker, Shatter.
A rule that holds most of the time: the busier the layout and word motion, the calmer the container motion should be.
Other caption controls
Template gallery. Search box, category filter, and sorting by featured order, name, or category.
Background behind a single line. For when the words land on a busy part of the video and stop being readable.
Fonts. Includes Josefin Sans and Josefin Slab, and a Josefin Impact caption preset.