Text and graphics

Add text and titles

Open Text on the left rail and click a design to add it at the playhead, or drag it onto the timeline. Then change its words, look and font on the picture.

1. Choose Text on the left rail. Hover a tile to see it move.
2. Click a tile. It is added on the word at the playhead and selected. (Designs that run the whole reel start at the beginning.)
3. Click the text on the picture and choose Edit text in its toolbar to type your words.
4. Use the toolbar for Look, Font, Weight, Color, Size and Alignment.

A new text goes on a Text track, in front of graphics and cards. Drag a tile onto the timeline instead to put it on the track under the pointer, or on a new track where a line says New text track. See Move things between tracks.

What is in the Text panel

Hook title, Strike-through and 3D text start behind you. Big captions and Video in text stand in for your captions while they show.

Looks

Every text can be Plain, Outline, Box, Pill or Marker. Designs that draw their own look (Handwriting, 3D text, Big captions, Video in text) hide the settings they fix.

Animate how text comes in and out

Select the text, open Motion in the right panel, and pick an In and an Out style. Typewriter, Word by word and Write on are for text only.

1. Select the text on the picture.
2. In the right panel, open Motion.
3. Pick an In style: Pop, Jump up, Zoom, Slide, Fade, Blur, Unfold, Typewriter, Word by word, Write on or Snap. Pick an Out style: Shrink, Slide off, Fade, Blur or Snap.
4. Set how long it takes (up to 5 seconds). Slide takes a direction.

Three ways to write words in

• Typewriter types the text. Choose a cursor: No cursor, While typing, Blinks after typing or Always blinking.
• Write on writes any text on, in any font. Sweep glides a soft edge along each line, Draw draws each letter’s outline then fills it, and Letters brings one letter at a time.
• Word by word shows a word at a time. Set Timing to As spoken and each word lands on the frame you say it.

Handwriting writes itself on stroke by stroke, so it does not use these. Unfold opens any text, graphic or card from a thin line.

Add a built-in graphic

Open Graphics on the left rail and click one. Quote cards, counting numbers, charts, arrows, app screens, social cards and more, all drawn in your brand’s look.

1. Choose Graphics on the left rail. Search with Search graphics, or hover a tile to see it move.
2. Click a tile to add it at the playhead.
3. Click it on the picture and choose Edit text, or use the toolbar for the design’s own fonts, colors and pictures. More opens all its settings.

The groups

Falling keys, Printed receipt, Comment keyword and Intertitle follow your face. Your reel’s graphics are explained in Graphics that read your reel. Screenplay page stands in for your captions while it shows. Magazine cover starts behind you.

Graphics that read your reel

Eight graphics draw from your own video: Editing timeline, Storyboard, Contact sheet, Drag and drop, Comment thread, Social feed, Title card and Color palette. Nothing to type or upload.

These graphics are made from your video itself. Editing timeline, Storyboard and Title card read your reel’s timeline. Contact sheet, Drag and drop, Comment thread and Social feed read the raw take under them: its length, what the edit kept and cut, and stills from it. Color palette reads the colors of the shot.

1. Open Graphics and find the graphic (most are in Your reel; Comment thread and Social feed are in Social; Title card is in Chapters).
2. Click to add it, then use More to change its settings, such as the number of cards in Storyboard or the note on a Comment thread.

Change just one part of a graphic

Select the graphic, then click one of its parts on the picture (or pick it in the Parts list). Change its font, color, size or position, or delete the part.

1. Select the graphic on the picture.
2. Click one of its parts, such as the quote mark on a Quote card. Or open Parts in the right panel and click a row (hovering a row outlines the part).
3. A toolbar shows Font, Weight, Color and Size. Drag the part to move it, drag a corner to scale it, or use the dot above it to turn it.
4. Choose Delete part to remove it, or Show part to bring it back. Reset this part and Reset all parts undo your changes.
5. Choose Back in the toolbar to return to the whole graphic.

Graphics your agent writes

If no built-in does what you want, ask your agent to write one. It appears in Text or Graphics, marked "Made by your agent", and you can edit it like any other.

After it is made

• It shows up in the Text or Graphics panel with the label Made by your agent. Its tile menu (⋯) has Add at the playhead and Delete from this reel….
• Its settings appear as normal fields in the right panel and in the toolbar on the picture.
• Star it (Add to favorites) to keep a copy in every project.
• If a graphic stops with an error, the right panel says so, and your agent can fix it.

Good to know

Graphics are drawn from the frame, so the preview and the export always match. They run in a closed sandbox with no network access, no timers and no storage, so a graphic cannot reach anything on your Mac. Your agent follows the rules in Yapp Studio’s skill.

Use the toolbar on the picture

Click a text, graphic, card or the captions on the preview and a toolbar appears right there with the settings you change most. Choose More for everything else.

See Simple view for how this lets you hide every panel.

Item toolbars end in Duplicate, Delete and More. The toolbar follows the item while it plays.