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August 14, 2025
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TRANSCRIPTION: Stop inserting hard returns in captions

  • August 14, 2025
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When creating captions:

  1. Stop inserting hard returns in captions. Give us a choice of selecting either balancing ragged lines (y’all have this code in InDesign) or inserting soft returns
  2. Let me choose triple lines (useful on square or tall videos)
  3. Let me set the font, size, color on creation and then save them as a preset. I never ever under any circunstances want captions in Minion 48, yet that is inexplicably the default.
  4. Set a highlight color for following along with captions. There are free video editors that offer this. And then give me a choice of two effects: 
  • Follow words as spoken: This highlights the currrent word being uttered
  • Karaoke effect: This crawls across the words as spoken, lingers on long words, and leaves uttered words highlighted

See attached for how revised dialog should look.