Captions do not have to sit at the bottom. In the editor you drag them anywhere on the video, snap them to guides, and decide whether the move applies to one subtitle or all of them. The position is saved with the track and used when you export a video with burned-in subtitles.
Click the subtitle on the video
Open the track in the editor. Click the subtitle in the video preview: a small floating toolbar appears above it with the style controls and the alignment options. The video pauses as soon as you start dragging, so you never lose the frame you were looking at.
Drag it into place
Drag the subtitle to where you want it. Pink guide lines appear as you move: one at the centre and one at 5% from each edge, horizontally and vertically. The subtitle snaps to them when it gets close, so lining captions up exactly takes no effort. On portrait videos there is one more guide, labelled Social Media Safe Zone, at three quarters of the height: it keeps captions clear of the buttons and text that Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts draw over the bottom of the screen.
Choose: this subtitle, or all of them
When you let go, a message reads "Moved this subtitle only." with an Apply to all subtitles button. Click it to move the whole track; ignore it to keep the change on this cue alone. Per-cue positions are handy when a caption would cover a name strip or an on-screen title for a few seconds.
Set the alignment
In the floating toolbar, Text alignment offers Auto, Left, Center and Right. It works the same way as moving: the change applies to the selected subtitle, and the message that follows lets you apply it to all.
Good to know
- The corner handles change the size, not the box. Dragging one of the four white circles makes the text bigger or smaller (5 to 26 px). To change how much text fits on a line, use the Layout panel instead: see Font size and characters per line.
- Red edges mean the text does not fit. If part of a subtitle falls outside the picture, the editor outlines that part in red. Shorten the lines, reduce the size or move the caption until the red disappears; otherwise it will be cut off in the export.
- Vertical videos and the safe zone. If you would rather keep captions at the very bottom of portrait videos, turn on Always bottom in Workspace Settings, under Style & Font. It skips the safe zone for new tracks.
- Back to the default. There is no reset button: drag the subtitle back onto the bottom-centre guides and click Apply to all subtitles.
- Subtitle files ignore position. SRT, VTT and the other text formats have no reliable way to carry it; the position shows in the editor and in burned-in exports.