Text presets

A preset gives a text clip a finished look with one click: its font, size, alignment, backdrop and position, sized to fit your canvas.

Where: Clip tab ▸ Text ▸ Presets
Agent tools: set_textset_video

Apply a preset

Select one or more text clips.
Open the Presets section at the bottom of the Text sub-tab. It starts closed.
Click Title, Subtitle, Lower Third or Caption.

It’s one undo step, named after the preset.

The four presets

Preset	Font	Size	At 1920 × 1080	Align	Position	Backdrop
Title	Source Sans 3 Bold	9 %	97 px	Centre	Centre of the canvas	None
Subtitle	Source Sans 3 SemiBold	5 %	54 px	Centre	18 % of the height below centre	None
Lower Third	Source Sans 3 SemiBold	4.5 %	49 px	Left	20 % of the width left of centre, 28 % of the height below it	Black at 55 %, padding 18 px, radius 6 px
Caption	Source Sans 3 Regular	3.5 %	38 px	Centre	38 % of the height below centre	Black at 60 %, padding 12 px, radius 8 px

The position is where the centre of the text’s box sits, so a longer name on a Lower Third grows both ways from that point.

Title isn’t the look a new text clip starts with. That has the same font at a fixed 72 px, where Title works its size out from the canvas.

On a canvas taller than wide, Caption sits higher, a quarter of the height below centre, clear of a phone’s on-screen controls.

Subtitles from File ▸ Generate Captions… and File ▸ Import Captions… use the Caption look, and they also wrap at 80 % of the canvas width. The Caption button itself leaves the box as it is.

How a preset fits the canvas

Sizes are a share of the canvas’s shorter side, and positions a share of its width and height. So a preset fits any canvas, and a vertical 1080 × 1920 canvas gets the same text height as a 1920 × 1080 one. A backdrop’s padding and radius stay at the pixel values in the table.

The size is worked out once, from the canvas at the moment you click. Changing the canvas afterwards doesn’t apply the preset again.

What a preset changes

As well as the settings in the table, a preset sets Vertical to middle and Opacity back to 100 %. Title and Subtitle take away any backdrop.

It leaves everything else alone, including the words, the colour, the outline, tracking, line spacing, UPPERCASE, the box, the reveal, scale and rotation.

With an action selected, a preset sets that action’s end, like any other field.

With an agent

There’s no preset tool. An agent sends the same values through set_text and set_video. See Tools: text, shapes and clip names.