Caption Burner

Caption Burner is available both as a Title and as a Generator effect in Final Cut Pro. To begin, select the Titles and Generators icon, select the Caption Burner category and drag the title to the beginning of your timeline:

In most cases, you will want to make the Caption Burner clip be the topmost clip in your hierarchy. You will likely want to extend the Caption Burner clip to the full duration of your timeline to give the plugin a chance to render captions for the full duration of your content.

Select the Caption Burner clip on the timeline to display its parameters:

Click the Edit button displayed by the Captions parameter to bring up the captions window:

When done importing and editing your captions, click the SAVE button to preview your captions in the Canvas.

Captions are burned directly onto the clip to which the Caption Burner plugin is applied. The most flexible approach is to burn captions over a Transparent Video track since it can be positioned over a timeline containing any number of elements.

Create a Transparent Video clip with the same resolution as the timeline by selecting the File > New > Transparent Video... menu command:

A Transparent Video clip will be added to your project. Drag the Transparent Video clip to the beginning of the timeline:

Switch to the Effects tab and scroll down to reveal the Video Effects folder. Drag the Caption Burner effect from the Caption Burner category onto the Transparent Video clip on your timeline:

Select the clip that contains the Caption Burner effect on the timeline to display its parameters in the inspector:

Click the Edit button displayed by the Captions parameter to bring up the captions window:

When done importing and editing your captions, click the SAVE button to preview your captions in the Canvas.

How do I use these plug-ins in

Motion?

Click the + Add Object button, and select the Caption Burner generator from the Caption Burner category to add it to your timeline:

Drag the Caption Burner layer to the beginning of your timeline and extend it to the out point. The parameters and usage in Motion is otherwise identical to Final Cut Pro. Select the clip to view its parameters in the inspector:

Click the Edit button displayed by the Captions parameter to bring up the captions window.

How do I use these plug-ins in

After Effects?

Although Caption Burner can be applied to any layer on your timeline, the best approach is to create a new Solid Layer that will be used solely for the purpose of hosting and rendering your captions. Select the Layer > New > Solid menu command:

Select the Caption Burner effect from the Effect > Caption Burner menu. Display the effect parameters in the inspector and disable the Composite over Original paramater to make sure the Solid color in the layer is not rendered, as you want all layers below to be visible instead:

Click the Edit button displayed by the Captions parameter to bring up the captions window.