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Add a title, retype it on the canvas, and style, place and animate it.
Press Text in the timeline toolbar, or T, to add a title at the
playhead. From the toolbar it opens for typing in place, on the canvas.
Words are typed on the canvas. Double-click a text layer or a program's
own text, or select it and press Enter, to retype it. Enter keeps the
words, Shift+Enter breaks a line, Escape puts the old words back.
The words on the canvas are the words you get. Select some to style just
those: the bar above the layer, or ⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U and ⌘⇧X, set bold,
italic, underline and strikethrough; its two colours set the ink and a
highlight; ⌘\ clears them. A style can start and end mid-word, typing
inside a styled run keeps its style, and with text selected the panel's
weight, italic and colour act on the selection.
Selected text wears a box on the canvas: drag a corner to scale it, the grip above to rotate it, a side handle to set the wrap width.
The panel holds the style.
- Style is Title (Lexend 600, the hero line), Caption (Lexend 400, supporting copy) or Label (JetBrains Mono, small data labels). Picking a style drops the layer's own overrides.
- Font holds the family, weight, size 12 to 200 px, colour, alignment, Italic, line height and letter spacing.
- Shadow, Outline and Background are switches, each with its own strength, colour, width or padding.
- Layout is X and Y, scale and rotation. Wrap lines sets a width, 80 % of the frame by default.
- Animation is In (Rise, Fade, Pop, Blur, Type or None), Reveal by (Block, Line, Word or Char, with a stagger in ms) and Out (Rise, Fade or None).
The layer is one clip on the Layers row; drag its edges to change when
it shows. Delete text or ⌫ removes it.