Add and customize captions in the editor

« To Captions: Overview

Include open captions on your videos to make your content more expressive and engaging, especially for social media. They also improve accessibility: viewers can watch the clips without needing to hear the audio.

Step by step

• Using a computer

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. Open a recording in the editor or upload an external file to start editing.
  3. From the editor toolbar, click Captions.
  4. In the Captions panel, choose one of the style options presets
  5. Click the caption text on the video canvas to customize the caption style, including the typeface, text size, animation style, colors (main color and highlight color), capitalization, line control, characters per line, and alignment. 
     • To add a custom color, click the color picker, and choose +. 
       Then add the Hex code (e.g. #0000FF).
     • Based on your plan, save the caption settings as a preset so you can easily apply them to future videos.
  6. Below the video canvas, choose which scenes to apply the caption style and position to:
     • Select This scene to apply the caption's style and position only to the current scene.
     • Select Similar scenes to apply the caption's style and position to all scenes with the same track and layout.
     • Select All scenes to apply the caption's style and position to this track in every scene of the edit.
        
  7. Click and drag the captions to reposition them.
  8. Click outside the speaker's tile to apply the changes. 

• Using a phone

  1. Open a recording from the Riverside mobile app.
     On the mobile app, you can create new drafts, but you are not able to make changes to in-progress drafts made on a computer.
  2. Tap the Captions icon at the center of the screen.
  3. Scroll up or down to select a style preset.
  4. In the captions menu at the bottom of the screen, apply your customizations, including: Font, Style, Animation, Main color and Highlight color
     
  5. Tap Format to modify alignment, capitalization, line control and corners. 
     
     • Additionally, you can drag and pinch the canvas caption widget to:
       • Adjust the number of lines per caption segment.
       • Control the number of characters per line.
       • Rotate the captions.
       • Reposition the captions anywhere on the screen.
  6. To add a custom color, tap the color picker in the bottom left.
     • Choose a color from the Grid or Spectrum tabs.
     • To use a Hex code, tap the Sliders tab at the top and enter the Hex code (e.g. #0000FF) in the field next to Display P3 Hex Color #.
  7. In the top right corner, tap Done.
  8. To make further edits, tap Edit at the bottom of the screen.

Good to know

• Captions are created from your recording's transcript and are in the language you selected in the studio's settings. 
• The timing of words on-screen is most accurate for English-language text.

Learn more

• Correct the transcript and caption text
• Remove captions in the editor
• Add text overlay to edited video
• Enable Live Captions in the Studio