How to Customize Captions Per Scene in Riverside (Full Transcript)

Learn to style captions differently in each Riverside scene—adjust placement, fonts, colors, size, and animations for a more intentional edit.
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[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Today, I'm gonna walk you through a quick tip for customizing captions in different scenes inside Riverside. This is really helpful because not every scene in your video needs to look the same. For example, maybe you want big centered captions in your intro to grab attention, but once the video starts, you want smaller captions lower on the screen. I'm gonna walk you through how to customize that inside the editor. So on the left here, we have all of our different captions options. You can just click on captions here and that will pop up. All right, so to customize your captions individually, you're gonna click on the scene that you want to adjust first. So I'm gonna click on intro here and I'm gonna click on the caption. Now it's really important that you have this scene selected because if you have all scenes, it's gonna change every single caption in your entire episode. But if you just do this scene, then it'll just change what we're changing in this scene. So right here, I'm just gonna drag this to the center and then I'm actually gonna change the design a little bit. So I'm gonna come up here and I'm gonna change my font color. I'm gonna go to my highlight. I'm gonna move this to kind of like a yellow since that's more of my branding. And then I'm gonna go to my secondary color and I'll leave that at black and leave my main at white. So that looks like that. And then Poppins is my font of choice. So I'm gonna do Poppins extra bold to make sure that pops out a little bit. And then I'm gonna change the font size, maybe go like 64. And you see that it actually automatically changes how many words are in here depending on how you change the size of this box. So you can get even more customized, which is really cool. You can see that our introduction has this bold font that's really powerful and looks fascinating. But let's move over to our other scene. From here, do the same thing. Select the scene we wanna change, select our captions, say this scene. This time, I'm actually gonna change the font style to like a Poppins regular. And I'm gonna turn off the animations because I want this to be a little bit more simple and I want it to be even more basic. So I'm just gonna go to basic inside the customization and leave this right here. Change the font size down to like 36. And you can get even more custom by using the different caption presets here on the left side. You can make it so that each caption is highlighted with a fun color. You can do different styles. It's really customizable. So instead of using one caption style for your entire video, you can make each scene feel a little bit more intentional. This is a simple way to keep your captions readable, clean, and designed around the actual edit. I hope you found this quick tip helpful inside the new Riverside Editor. And we can't wait to see what you create.

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The speaker demonstrates how to customize caption styles per scene in the Riverside Editor so different parts of a video can have different caption placement and design. They explain selecting a specific scene (not “all scenes”) to avoid changing captions across the entire episode, then show an intro scene with large, centered, branded captions (Poppins Extra Bold, adjusted colors, size ~64). They then switch to another scene and create a simpler look by choosing “this scene,” using Poppins Regular, disabling animations, selecting a basic style, and reducing size (~36). They note presets can further vary highlighting and styles, making each scene feel intentional while keeping captions readable and clean.
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Customize Captions Per Scene in Riverside Editor
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Arow Key Takeaways
  • Select the specific scene before editing captions to avoid changing captions across the whole episode.
  • Use different caption styles for different scenes (e.g., big centered intro captions vs. smaller lower-third captions for the main content).
  • Customize font, colors (main/secondary/highlight), weight, and size to match branding and readability goals.
  • Adjust the caption box size to control line breaks/word grouping automatically.
  • Turn off animations and choose a basic style when you want a cleaner, simpler look.
  • Explore caption presets to quickly apply different highlight and design treatments per scene.
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Positive: The tone is upbeat and instructional, emphasizing how easy and helpful the feature is, with encouraging language like “really cool,” “helpful,” and “can’t wait to see what you create.”
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