Subtitles

Captions sit in a fixed band on the screen. The camera can zoom anywhere and the band stays exactly where you put it.

Four ways to get cues

• From a recording. Transcribed from what you actually said, with word-level timing.
• From a script. A one-way copy of your narration lines.
• From a file. Drop in an .srt or .txt. SRT keeps its real timestamps; TXT is estimated from text length.
• By hand. Press u, click into the chart, type.

Importing a file replaces the whole cue list, so it asks first.

Reading a row

Each row has a start and a duration in seconds.

Seconds, not columns, and that is the important part: a cue measured off a spoken word is pinned to a moment in an audio file. Raising the candle tempo must not slide a caption off its syllable.

Leaving the duration empty estimates it from the text length. A new cue starts at a few seconds; clear the field at any time to go back to the estimate.

Long lines are never truncated

A cue longer than the band's line limit becomes successive cards rather than being cut. Two cards are never on screen at once, and a cue always ends by the time the next one starts.

Editing on the timeline

Open the timeline dock and cues become draggable chips:

Gesture	Effect
Drag	Move the cue
Drag an edge	Trim it
Double-click	Split at the nearest word boundary
M	Merge with the next cue
Delete	Remove it

Snap candidates are the take's own word boundaries first, then neighbouring cue edges. Snapping to what was actually said is what lands a caption on a syllable rather than near it.

Script edits do not reflow captions

Generating from the narration script is a one-way copy. Editing the script afterwards leaves your subtitles alone — fix the wording in the cue list.

This is deliberate: a caption is often shorter than the sentence spoken, and re-syncing on every script edit would silently undo that.

They are not chart elements

A cue has no chart position, so it cannot be clicked or dragged on the canvas and does not appear in the element list. The band as a whole is draggable on the canvas — that is a project-level setting, covered under how the band looks.