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How to change font colour in a caption?

David Al

started a topic almost 5 years ago

You can distinguish two active speakers by

- inset your text here

- Angry man: insert your text here

But sometimes would be nice to distinguish them by colour. Many subtitle editors have this feature.

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Claude Almansi

said almost 5 years ago

Thanks for asking this, David.

Presently, the Amara editor does not offer the possibility to use color. However, you could download your subtitles as a DFXP (same as TTML) file, which supports color attributes. See https://www.w3.org/TR/ttml1/#style-attribute-color if you wish to add the color attributes in the file.

Personally, I am a bit wary of inserting things in DFXP files, so if I needed to use color coding, I'd first create the basic subtitles with Amara, download the file and then use it with a desktop subtitling tool that offers a WYSIWYG option to add color.

Best,

Claude