Sky Caption Minimal
Restraint, then a shout: tiny centred captions, a teal jump-cut picture, and one huge gold figure about every ten seconds.
What Sky Caption Minimal does to your footage
Most of this style is very quiet. The captions are small, dead-centre, two words at a time, swapping about twice a second. The picture is graded teal with a crushed black floor, and every pause in your voice is cut out, so it jump cuts. Then roughly every ten seconds the discipline breaks for exactly one big gesture. Usually that is a money figure at five times the caption size, born white and turning gold over three frames.
- Tiny centred captions, two words at a time, swapping on the word.
- Every pause is cut out of the voice, which is why the picture jump cuts.
- One big gesture about every ten seconds and then straight back to quiet.
- A money slam that starts white and saturates to gold.
- Gold is the only accent colour, in three brightness steps.
- Hard cuts only, no dissolves anywhere.
A real cut in this style
This clip was edited by Clypmint in the Sky Caption Minimal style. It is not a mockup.
What footage suits Sky Caption Minimal
- A clean explainer where one number is the point.
- Anyone who finds most caption styles too loud.
- A wide take between 40 seconds and 4 minutes.
What Sky Caption Minimal will not do
Wide only. It cuts every pause out of your audio, so a slow delivery will end up much shorter.
How to edit a video in the Sky Caption Minimal style
- Upload your footage. Drop in the recording you already made. Clypmint transcribes it and finds where the usable takes are.
- Pick Sky Caption Minimal. Choose Sky Caption Minimal from the style picker. Its whole editing grammar comes with it.
- Let it cut. Clypmint cuts the dead air, sets the captions the way Sky Caption Minimal sets them, and places that style's graphics on the beats where they belong.
- Change it in a sentence. Tell the Director what to change. It edits the timeline you already have rather than starting over.
- Export it. Download the finished file. On a paid plan there is no mark on it.
How long should my footage be?
Sky Caption Minimal is built for footage between 40 seconds and 4 minutes. Shorter than that and the style has no room to put its devices anywhere. Longer than that and it runs out of vocabulary before your recording ends. Your plan also sets the longest single file you can upload, and that limit is listed on the pricing page.
What shape of video does it make?
Sky Caption Minimal is wide, for YouTube and a website. It has no version in another shape.
Other styles to look at
a16z Kinetic Caption
Every word lands one at a time in a staircase of hard type, so the claim carries the cut.
Crimson Card Explainer
A warm talking head, white captions with one crimson italic line in four, and numbered cards that flash in behind your hands.
Emerald Ledger 3D
A warm talking head that keeps cutting into dark emerald 3D scenes, plus a gold panel that opens and counts to the number you just said.
Forest Print Editorial
A green poster page with you cut out of your own footage, standing in front of a giant lowercase word.