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482Final Cut Pro User Guide
6. To set the style of transitions between captions, click the Display Style pop-up menu
and choose an option:
• Pop-On: No transition (a simple cut between captions).
• Paint-On: Starting with the topmost line of text, each line of text in the caption is
revealed from left to right, one at a time.
• Roll-Up: Each line of text in the caption is revealed at the bottom of the screen
using the Paint-On style, and is then animated upward to make room for the next line
of text.
If you choose the Roll-Up style, a Lines pop-up menu appears. Choose how many
lines of text to show at once in the Roll-Up style: 2, 3, or 4 lines.
If a series of abutting captions are set to either the Paint-On or the Roll-Up style,
their edit points in the timeline become through edits, indicating that the captions
will interact. In the example below, all the captions are set to the Roll-Up style. The
second caption will push the first caption up, the third caption will push the second
caption up, and so on. You can make roll edits on the through edit points to precisely
control when the next caption begins to appear.
7. To change caption text to the italic or underline style, click a Formatting button.
8. To change the color of caption text, click a Text Color button.
You can select one of eight predefined colors.
9. To set the opacity of the caption text background, click a Text Background Opacity
button.
You can make the background transparent, semitransparent, or opaque.
10. To set the caption text background color, click a Text Background Color button.
You can select one of eight predefined colors.
At the bottom of the Caption inspector, you can view information about the selected
caption or captions:
• Timing: Displays start and end times and duration if you selected a single caption.
• Validation: Displays an error message if the selection does not conform to the
specifications of the CEA-608 caption format, or displays a green checkmark if no
problems are detected.
Note: Styling and formatting caption text can add invisible formatting tags, which may
cause captions to exceed the limit of 32 characters per line.