Settings
The three tabs of the Settings window and what each one holds.
Open Settings with ⌘,. It has three tabs.
Subtitles
| Setting | Range | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Max words per bar | 1 to 12 | 4 |
| Max bar duration | 1 to 8 s | 3 s |
| Split on pauses longer than | 0.2 to 2 s | 0.7 s |
The bar rules decide how the words of analysed footage are cut into bars when subtitles are generated. Generate again from a subtitles track's panel to cut an existing track by new rules; that replaces its bars. See Captions.
Subtitle Styles
The caption styles, with a live 9:16 preview on the left and the editor on the right. The preview has its own Guides menu. Select a style in the list to edit it.
| Section | Fields |
|---|---|
| Name | The style's name and Use as default for new subtitle tracks |
| Text | Font, Size (24 to 120 pt), color, Uppercase, Letter spacing, Max width |
| Background | On or off, color, Opacity, Corner radius, Padding |
| Shadow | On or off, Strength, Softness |
| Outline | On or off, Width, color |
The buttons add a style, duplicate or delete the selected one, and Set Default. Add Preset brings back one of the built-in styles; Reset to Presets replaces the whole list with them.
Text Styles
The text favorites, in the same editor. Use for new texts marks the default, which dresses new texts. Drag to reorder; the order is the order of the Apply menu in the text sidebar. See Text.
Files on disk
The bar rules, caption styles and text favorites are saved in the open workspace as settings/captions.json, settings/caption-styles.json and settings/text-styles.json. Edits to those files are picked up while the app runs. Without a workspace they live in this Mac's preferences.