Label
Small white italic — the thing being measured: «rental cost», «floor area».
AI headlines
Headlines that carry the point, not the transcript
Subtitles repeat every word. A headline says the one thing the viewer must take away — and holds the screen while it matters.
Open the editor →What AI headlines are
AI headlines are text overlays: blocks of two to four words over the footage. Captions Space produces these text overlays from speech automatically, with no manual placement.
The keyphrase stage uses word timings and speech prosody. The model produces a short piece of ad copy for each block. The layout engine uses the bounding boxes of detected faces and objects. The renderer produces video with the headlines burned in.
The headline layer enables the point to land without subtitles. The editor includes a storyboard tab with every block. Manual editing enables changes to text, roles and timing. The pause between blocks helps hold the viewer's attention.
Headline designs
Ready-made headline templates from the editor: real fonts, palettes, plates and entry animation. The card shows exactly what the renderer burns into the video.
Big Stack
Oversized centered type
- Font Montserrat
- Motion pop
Blueprint
Oversized centered type
- Font IBM Plex Sans
- Motion slide from left
Board
Type on plates
- Font Involve
- Motion typewriter
Boardroom
Left rail with a bar
- Font Stolzl
- Motion slide from left
Clinic
Type on plates
- Font Manrope
- Motion rise
Cover
Oversized centered type
- Font Gilroy
- Motion fade
Gloss
Oversized centered type
- Font Prata
- Motion rise
Hand Note
Tilted stickers
- Font Caravan
- Motion rise
Hype
Oversized centered type
- Font Druk Wide Cyr
- Motion wipe
Keynote
Oversized centered type
- Font Cera Pro
- Motion fade
Left Rail
Left rail with a bar
- Font Oswald
- Motion rise
Lower Third
Broadcast band on plates
- Font Onest
- Motion slide from left
Neon
Oversized centered type
- Font Unbounded
- Motion fade
News Third
Broadcast band on plates
- Font Golos Text
- Motion slide from left
Pop Chip
Type on plates
- Font Gilroy
- Motion pop
Pull Quote
Oversized centered type
- Font Golos Text
- Motion fade
Runway
Oversized centered type
- Font Angst
- Motion wipe
Stat Card
Type on plates
- Font Formular
- Motion rise
Sticker
Tilted stickers
- Font Involve
- Motion rise
Violet Caps
Oversized centered type
- Font Roboto Condensed
- Motion rise
Captions Space includes 20 headline designs. Every one is customizable: role sizes, case, colors, plates, decor and motion.
How a headline is built
- 01
Speech is aligned
Word timings come from forced alignment, so every word on screen has its own moment.
- 02
Blocks are chosen by rules
Prosody and the scene graph decide where a block starts and what it is built from — deterministic, no network needed.
- 03
AI writes the wording
The model turns the phrase into ad copy: «RENTAL COST», «NEW WALLS». It is a headline, not a quote.
- 04
Layout places it
The layout engine computes coordinates in the upper third, clear of faces and objects. The model never returns a pixel.
Three roles, one composition
Value
Large white caps — the answer the label sets up.
Accent
Oversized colour — the number or word the whole block exists for.
Count-up
Numbers roll to their final value with an ease-out, so a figure lands instead of appearing.
Why it reads differently
Words fly in one at a time in the order they are spoken, roughly a word per second, and leave the same way. The screen is never asked to hold a paragraph.
Between blocks the frame goes empty for half a second or more. That pause is part of the format — without it the text flickers and the viewer stops reading.
A block is two or three ragged lines with their own sizes and offsets, not one centred string. It behaves like a title card, because that is what it is.
Where headlines beat subtitles
Specs and numbers
Price, area, wattage, deadline — the label→value pattern is what this mode is built for.
Sales videos
The offer, the benefit and the condition stay on screen while the voice moves on.
Expert explainers
Terms and figures get a visual anchor the viewer can hold on to.
Silent viewing
The point survives with the sound off, without a wall of caption text.
Headlines or subtitles
Subtitles are for comprehension. They repeat everything, so a viewer who lost the audio — or the thread — can catch up on any word. That is why they win on long-form, on interviews and anywhere accuracy matters more than pace.
Headlines are for retention. They show up rarely, hold two to four words, and force a choice about what actually matters in each stretch of speech. On a fifty-second vertical video that choice is the whole edit.
The formats also fail differently. Too many subtitles read as a wall and get ignored; too many headlines read as flashing and get skipped. The density budget — roughly a word per second, with an empty screen between blocks — exists to keep the second failure away.
You do not have to pick once. Run headlines over the hook and the numbers, subtitles over the explanation, and let the layers hand off. Both are timed from the same alignment, so they never fight for the same moment.
Yours to change
Every block lands in a storyboard tab in the editor. Rewrite the line, switch a word between label, value and accent, drop a block, or turn subtitles back on underneath. Nothing is locked to the model's first answer.
FAQ
An ordinary text overlay is placed by hand: you type the text, pick the spot and pick the moment. Captions Space builds text overlays from speech — it finds the moment from word timings, writes a short block and places it in the upper third, clear of faces. You can still edit all of it by hand.
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