Caption skins

Restyle every caption in one prompt — TikTok Bold, Minimal Clean, Boxed Contrast, and three more consistent looks.

Styling captions by hand means setting font, size, color, and background on dozens of text clips. A caption skin does it in one prompt: the agent restyles every caption to a coherent, tested look in seconds, and you can switch looks as many times as you want.

Prompts to paste

"Restyle the captions with TikTok Bold."

"Make the captions cleaner and less loud — something minimal."

"Use Boxed Contrast captions so they're readable over the busy background."

"Give it a documentary feel — quiet lower captions."

"Apply Neon Pop to the captions, but only in the first 10 seconds."

The six skins

Skin	Look	Best for
TikTok Bold	Large bold white text, dark rounded backing	TikTok, Reels, viral clips
Minimal Clean	Simple lower captions, no background	Tutorials, interviews, professional clips
Boxed Contrast	Bold text on a near-solid dark box	Noisy footage, accessibility
Editorial Highlight	Left-aligned serif on a warm dark rail	Magazine-style, premium content
Neon Pop	Bright bold text on a deep blue box	Gaming, hype edits, music
Documentary Lower	Quiet serif lower-third, stays clear of faces	Interviews, documentaries

What the agent actually does

Applying a skin updates the caption text elements on your timeline. A skin sets exactly these properties: font family, weight, size, color, alignment, the background box (color, corner radius, padding), and vertical position. That's the whole list — skins do not add strokes, glows, shadows, or animations. Minimal Clean simply turns the background box off.

By default only caption-like text is restyled; titles and callouts are left alone (the agent can include them if you ask). You can also target specific captions — select one on the timeline or describe a range, and the agent scopes the restyle to it.

Template defaults

Creator templates come with a matching skin, applied only if captions already exist — templates never generate captions themselves:

Template	Default skin
TikTok Highlight	TikTok Bold
Podcast Clip	Boxed Contrast
UGC Ad	Boxed Contrast
Product Demo	Minimal Clean
Cinematic Story	Documentary Lower
Music Cutdown	Neon Pop

Override any of them: "Apply the TikTok template, but use Minimal Clean captions."

When to do it manually

Select a caption on the timeline and open the Properties panel to adjust font, size, color, and background per clip — see Text and titles. Note that applying a skin afterwards overwrites manual styling on captions.

Limits

Skins style existing captions — generate captions first (Auto-caption a video).
No per-word animations, strokes, or glow effects. If you want animated text, that's a manual text-overlay animation (Text and titles), not a skin.
A skin is a fixed set of values, not a theme with intensity — to tweak it, apply the skin and then adjust properties manually or describe the change to the agent.