Choosing a caption template: classic, language and Trending CFX

Templates live in the style panel on the right-hand side of the editor, under its Templates tab. The tab has two halves: Built-in Templates, which holds everything Captionwale offers, and My Presets, which holds looks you have saved for yourself. A search box at the top, marked Find a template, narrows the list by name.

The list is grouped under headings. Diwali sits at the top for now, followed by Trending CFX and then the classic families, Single line and Multi line. Every card plays its template live, so you can compare two looks next to each other without clicking either one.

The heading a template sits under tells you how it handles your words:

Many templates are designed around a single language: Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi or English. Their cards carry a small chip with the language's name when it is not English, and that chip is highlighted when it matches your project's language, which makes the right ones easy to pick out of a long list.

The difference goes beyond a label. A typeface that looks crisp in Latin letters may have no Tamil or Odia letters at all, and a size that reads well in English can squash a Bengali conjunct. A language template starts from a face and a size that suit its script. To see them together, open a language's gallery, such as Hindi or Tamil, or browse every template. The guide to caption fonts for Indian scripts covers what to check in a face.

Click a card and the preview changes to it immediately, on your video and your words. Play a few seconds, then try the next; nothing is fixed until you export. Anyone may try any template, locked ones included, because the plan only comes into it at the moment of export.

Picking a template replaces the look: the colour, typeface, weight, use of capitals and motion all come from the new card. The caption's position, size and alignment stay as you set them, since those are choices about this particular video rather than part of a design. For small adjustments afterwards, the Text tab beside Templates changes the font, size, colours, outline, shadow and animation.

When you land on a combination you like, keep it with Save preset under My Presets. A preset stores the template together with your tweaks, so the next video can start from the same look in one click.

A lock on a card tells you what an export would need. It names the cheapest plan that includes the template, and you can still preview the template as much as you like:

Start from the footage, not the card. A plain wall behind the speaker leaves room for almost any template, while a crowded street or a busy kitchen calls for one with a thick outline or a solid box behind the letters. Loud CFX motion suits a quick hook, and can wear viewers out across a slow two-minute explanation.

Keep one look across a series, so returning viewers recognise your videos in the feed before reading a word. And judge a template by your longest caption rather than your shortest: a design that looks tidy with three words may wrap clumsily with seven.