# Sentence captions, revealed word by word

Edit / Edit effect / Captions. Checked 2026-11-13.

Reads like a subtitle in a film: calm, and paced by the voice.

- Use when: Narrated stories and brand films.
- Phrase: one sentence at a time, small white sans with no box, low centre, each word appearing as it is spoken
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/effect/caption-sentence-reveal
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/effect/caption-sentence-reveal.json

## Watch out

- Measured on a 344-second story reel at 2.57 words per second, captions at about 76 percent of the frame height. Boxed, large or multi-sentence captions are the listed failures of this style. (measured; Director Chair measurement of a published short, 23 Oct 2026)

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is sentence captions, revealed word by word: reads like a subtitle in a film: calm, and paced by the voice. How it works: one sentence at a time, small white sans with no box, low centre, each word appearing as it is spoken. It is right for: narrated stories and brand films. Measured on a 344-second story reel at 2.57 words per second, captions at about 76 percent of the frame height. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
```

## Goes well with

- Low-poly parable: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-low-poly-parable
- Phrase captions on a chip: https://directorchair.ai/effect/caption-chips

## Source

Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.