Four ways to animate a title
- Word pop — each word springs in with a little overshoot. Energetic and readable.
- Handwriting — the line is written left to right as a pen follows it.
- Typewriter — characters appear one by one with a blinking caret. Great for tech and suspense.
- Rise up — each line slides up out of its own mask. Elegant and cinematic.
Every style has a default, and you can override it per scene in the Scenes tab.
Emphasis with one keystroke
Wrap a word in *stars* and it gets special treatment: a highlighter band on light styles, an accent colour with an underline swoosh on dark ones. Use it once per title. Emphasise everything and you emphasise nothing.
Captions: typography for the voice
Titles carry the headline; captions carry the narration. Word-by-word captions highlight each word as the voice says it — the format that dominates short-form video because it keeps eyes on the screen. Turn them on in the Style tab.
Text-only videos
Scenes without an image become full-frame type: the title scales up to fill the space, and small hand-drawn doodles decorate the corners. A sequence of five or six such scenes with a punchy voice and the Bright music mood makes a strong social video with no images at all.
Typography that works in every script
Titles wrap correctly in languages without spaces — Chinese, Japanese, Thai — using the browser's own word segmentation, and fall back to your system's fonts for scripts the display faces don't cover. Try the Pop Motion style in the animated video maker, or see vertical videos for TikTok and Reels.