News caption styles Breaking news energy for any clip.

News styles borrow the graphics of a newsroom. Breaking adds a LIVE tag and a red strip, Ticker runs an edge-to-edge black strip with yellow text, and Newsroom sets the line on a blue strip with a red underline. Alert uses a yellow strip, black text and a warning icon, and News Headline sets a heavy serif on white with a red rule.

Use it on my video Best for: Commentary, updates, announcements, gossip and explainers

7 styles · This preview was recorded with the same renderer that burns captions into your clip, so what you see is what you get.

Breaking Breaking: a LIVE tag and a red strip

Ticker News ticker: an edge-to-edge black strip with yellow text

News Headline A heavy-serif headline on white with a red rule

Newsroom Newsroom: a blue strip with a red underline

Flash Urgent: a slanted red strip with white italics

Report Report: an elegant serif with the keyword on a strip

Alert Alert: a yellow strip, black text and a warning icon

Specs of every style

Font, size, words per line, outline and entrance animation of every style in this category, read from the same style that burns the captions into your clip.

Style	Font	Size	Words per line	Outline	All caps	Entrance
Breaking	Roboto Condensed Bold (700)	78 px	4, up to 2 lines	None	Yes	None
Ticker	Barlow Condensed Bold (700)	86 px	4, up to 1 lines	None	Yes	None
News Headline	Alfa Slab One	76 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Newsroom	Roboto Condensed Bold (700)	76 px	4, up to 2 lines	None	Yes	None
Flash	Montserrat Black (900)	84 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	Yes	None
Report	DM Serif Display	90 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Alert	Archivo Black	78 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	Yes	None

Step by step

How to apply a style to your clip

How to choose and save a caption style In the Download clip window, open Captions in the right menu. On the Styles tab, filter by category or search and click a style: the caption shows up in the preview. After adjusting the font and effects, Save caption style keeps everything under a name, and Use as default applies that style automatically to your next clips. See the steps → How to customize the clip captions With a style chosen in Captions, use the Font tab to change the font, size, weight, colors, outline, shadow and line breaks, and the Effects tab for position, caption backdrop, keywords and word styles. Drag the caption in the preview to move it. See the steps → How to use your brand's font in captions Inside a video, open Library in the menu, go to Fonts and click Add font to upload a TTF or OTF file. The font stays saved in your account and shows up in every caption font picker, in the Your Fonts group. Only use fonts you're licensed to use. See the steps →

Terms worth knowing

Animated captions Captions that light up, change color or appear word by word at the exact moment each word is spoken. Burned-in captions Captions rendered into the video image itself: they show in every player and the viewer cannot turn them off. Safe zone The part of a vertical video the app interface does not cover, where captions and text stay visible. Characters per second (CPS) A caption's reading speed: how many characters the viewer has to read for every second it stays on screen.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a news template with a full layout?

Yes. Besides these caption styles, the templates include Breaking Bulletin, with a live badge, headline panel and ticker, and Classic Headline, with a red headline bar over the video.

Will a news style make my clip look like real news?

It gives the clip the visual language of a news broadcast. Use it for commentary and updates, and keep the content honest about what it is.

Pick a style. We handle the timing. Every word synced to the speech.

Upload a video or paste a YouTube link. We transcribe every word with its timing, you choose the look, and the clip comes out captioned.

Try it on my video

See the result on your own recording before adding a card.