🎨 Presets & Styling
How to Add Your Own .ffx Animation Presets to Caption Words
You probably own After Effects animation presets (.ffx files) you like: a pop, a blur-in, a shake. With Your Own Animations (Captyne 1.5.8 and later) every caption word gets them at the moment it appears, on top of the Captyne preset you picked.
Add an animation
- Open the Preview tab and find Your Own Animations (.ffx).
- Next to Normal words or Emphasis words, click + Add .ffx and choose the file.
- Add more if you like. Each one is listed, and × removes it.
- Generate your captions.
Switch on Remove the preset's own effects first if you want only your animations, without the effects saved in the Captyne preset.
What works best
- Scale, Opacity, Rotation, effects and text animators work best.
- Animations that move Position can push words out of their place in the line. Use them carefully.
- A .ffx saved in a newer After Effects version can't be read by an older one. Captyne skips those and tells you which.
Good to know
- Your animations stay on this computer. They are never saved into the preset, so sharing or selling a preset never shares your .ffx files.
- If a file has been moved or deleted, it is shown crossed out in red. Add it again from its new location.
- To build these animations into a preset of your own instead, see How to create your own caption preset.