# 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](https://betteredits.app/docs/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](https://betteredits.app/docs/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.