Customize captions without changing the video

00:00 Today I'm going to walk you through a quick tip for customizing captions in different scenes inside Riverside. This is really helpful because not every scene in your video needs to look the same. For example, maybe you want big centered captions in your intro to grab attention, but once the video starts, you want smaller captions lower on the screen.

00:18 I'm going to walk you through how to customize that inside the editor. So on the left here we have all of our different captions options. You can just click on captions here and that will pop up. Alright, so to customize your captions individually, you're going to click on the scene that you want to adjust first. So I'm going to click on intro here and I'm going to click on the caption.

00:35 Now it's really important that you have this scene selected because if you have all scenes, it's going to change every single caption in your entire episode. But if you just do this scene, then it'll just change what we're changing in this scene. So right here, I'm just going to drag this to the center and then I'm actually going to change the design a little bit.

00:55 So I'm going to come up here and I'm going to change my font color. I'm going to go to my highlight. I'm going to move this to kind of like a yellow since that's more of my branding. And then I'm going to go to my secondary color. And I'll leave that at black and leave my main at white. So that looks like that. And then Poppins is my font of choice.

01:15 So I'm going to do Poppins extra bold to make sure that pops out a little bit. And then I'm going to change the font size, maybe go like 64. You see that it actually automatically changes how many words are in here, depending on how you change the size of this box. So you can get even more customized, which is really cool.

01:35 You can see that our introduction has this bold font that's really powerful and looks, you know, fascinating. But let's move over to our other scene from here. Do the same thing. Select the scene we want to change. Select our captions. Say this scene. This time I'm actually going to change the font style to like a Poppins regular.

01:52 And I'm going to turn off the animations because I want this to be a little bit more simple and I want it to be even more basic. So I'm just going to go to basic inside the customization and leave this right here. Change the font size down to like 36 and you can get even more custom by using the different caption presets here on the left side.

02:12 You can make it so that each caption is highlighted with a fun color. You can do different styles. It's really customizable. So instead of using one caption style for your entire video, you can make each scene feel a little bit more intentional. This is a simple way to keep your captions readable, clean, and designed around the actual edit. I hope you found this quick tip helpful inside the new Riverside editor and we can't wait to see what you create.